Français fondamental

Français fondamental (French for fundamental French) is a simplified version of the French language with a goal to teach French to foreigners. Surveys conducted in the 1950s and the 1960s show that a few words in Standard French are used the same way in every situation. That makes français fondamental use fewer grammatical rules than Standard French.

Even though the idea was given up in the 1970s, Radio France internationale broadcasts the daily news in "français facile" (French for easy French), which is a similar idea to français fondamental. The news bulletin uses a vocabulary of about 300 words and is broadcast every day at 20:00 Universal Time. 

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Basic English

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 Daily news bulletin of RFI, in Français facile 

Category:French language