Year French ...
... this year, aimed at promoting French as language, what is of practical importance and benefits, the language of the future, speech, which is the key to democratic and economic development.
21 March 2018 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin and Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Lilia Grinevich declared the Year of the French language in Ukraine. It was part of the Week of French and Francophone presence in 15 countries ambassadors, having the status of a member or associate member of the International Organization of La Francophonie (MOF).
The main objectives of the project:
- Increasing interest in French language and values, carrier which is Francophone.
- Distribution updated image of French as modern and useful.
- Supporting and promoting cooperation initiative.
- The development of openness to the outside world, in particular, by expanding cooperation with higher and secondary educational institutions of la Francophonie.
Interesting Facts about French
1. Act of the British Parliament on the compulsory use of English in state courts was written in French.
2. In French «assiette» - this dish, and mood, apartment. Likely, erroneous translation of the French phrase became the cause of phraseologism "at ease".
3. In most European languages the names of numerals 20 to 90 formed under the standard scheme - is consonant with the basic numbers from 2 to 9. However, the French are the names of some strange logic of numbers. So, number 70 pronounce 'soixante-dix', which translates as "threescore and ten", 80 - 'eighty' ( "Twenty-four"), a 90 - 'ninety' ( "Four twenty ten").
4. IN 1969 he published a novel by French writer Georges Perec «La disparition». One of the key features of the novel was that, that there was no letter e - the most common letters in French. By the same principle - without the letter e - book has been translated into English, German and Italian. IN 2005 , the novel came out in Russian translated Valery Kislov called "Disappearance". This option can not meet the letter of, because it is the most common in Russian.
5. French is the official language in England for more than 600 years.
6. The longest sentence in French has 823 and the words contained in the novel by Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables".
7. The word "souffle" and "prompter" comes from a French word "souffle" (exhalation, breath).
8. During World War II 1812 in the night Russian soldiers often took their officers as an enemy because the habit of speaking French.
9. Translated from the French "Hermitage" means "place of solitude".
10. The emblem of Great Britain is an inscription in French ( "God and my right") "God and my right".
11. Option French, spoken in Quebec, so different from literary French, that the people of France can not always understand it.
12. New Zealander Nigel Richards from 2007 year won multiple world championships with Scrabble. IN 2015 he had the championship and the World Cup of Scrabble in French, it is absolutely not having it. Richards just learned French dictionary two months.
