French: F–10 Sequence / Levels 3 and 4 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Content description
Know that French is an important global language used by communities in many countries around the world and that it has connections with several other languages
Elaborations
knowing that French is spoken in many regions of the world (for example, le Québec, le Sénégal, le Maroc, la Suisse, le Monaco, la Nouvelle Calédonie), with different accents and dialects
understanding that French has close connections to other languages which have shared histories and many similar words, for example, English, French, Italian and Spanish (‘the bank’, la banque, la banca, el banco; ‘art’, l’art, l’arte, el arte)
identifying ways in which French language and culture influence the lives of Australians
