14 Reasons lead you to learn French

1- France is the world's top tourist destination (60 million tourists yearly).

2-France is in fourth position in terms of world power and it does not have the debt facing many other major industrialized nations. (A positive sign for joint projects, business and scientific cooperation.)

3-France has the fourth largest economy in the world after the USA, Japan and Germany.

4-France is the fourth largest producers of automobiles in the world (Renault, Peugeot, Citroën) and the third largest exporter of automobiles.

The French export more per capita than the Japanese and more than twice as much as the Americans. Overall, France is the fourth largest exporting nation of the world.

5-France offers a range of generous scholarships to our graduate students and teachers.

6-France has the world's greatest number of Nobel Prize winners in literature (12).

7-French trade with Canada was very high in the last decade.

A good knowledge of French enables you to fully enjoy, at the theatre or on TV, the some of the best films in the world.

8-Learning French can help you improve the interpersonal skills you bring to an international career in computer technology, pharmaceuticals or engineering.

You can do so many more interesting things on the Internet if you speak French (high quality sites from fashion to finance, society to science, music to medicine).

For those with appropriate French skills, there are also possibilities for work in the following fields: international business, international agencies, the tourism and hospitality business, the diplomatic service, the post office, the RCMP, French research institutes, teaching, translation, interpreter, government.

9-More than 8 million Canadians speak French. 

10-More than 50,000 people in Saskatchewan speak French.

11-Other than English, French is the only language widely spoken on all continents and the eleventh most widely-spoken language in the world.

Learning a second language has been shown to have a positive impact on intellectual growth.  In fact, studies suggest learning a second language can enhance cognitive and intellectual abilities.

12-Over 150,000 Canadian students attend French-first-language schools outside Quebec, 320,000 are in French immersion, and more than 2 million Canadian students are enrolled in core French.

13-The number of schools offering French Immersion has increased from 237 in 1977 to 2,115 schools across Canada today, including every province and territory.

14-Learning a second language enhances problem solving and hypothesis-testing skills - the same skills used in math and science.