French Word Culture

The French word ‘culture’ literally translates into knowledge – they knowledge of fashion, cuisine, art and architecture. And in turn, the French word is derived from the Latin word ‘colere’ which means to nurture. The culture is the fuel to the existence of any language and it is through this culture that a language gets a chance to grow and flourish. The language travels places because the culture travels places. A perfect example of this phenomenon is the French Culture in Puducherry.
French Culture is often called a ‘refined’ and ‘elegant’ culture and this statement has legitimate ground. There are multiple facets of French Culture that makes it matrix of an elegant personality. The French are very proud of their culinary arts. Chefs, amateurs

The participants consisted of foreign language teachers and their students. The purpose of the survey was to find out to what extent teachers and students are aware of the role of foreign culture awareness in language learning and teaching; and second, to what extent does teachers are aware of the strategies and techniques of teaching foreign language culture and how students benefit from it. The study revealed that first, both students and teachers do believe that culture and language are inseparable and second, teachers were able to conduct strategies and techniques of teaching foreign language culture to emphasize it in class. Another study involving 103 foreign language teachers, it was found out that 96 of them take the utmost care to teach the culture and the

It has been already established that the culture of the region is as important as the language of region. One cannot exist by itself. The culture and the language forms the lock and key to the identity of a region. And this not being said without any. Language is the form of expression of the identity of individuals, communities and nations. Culture provides the root of this identity since it is the beliefs, the knowledge, values and the social configuration of the place. The same expression of language can be altered by the culture it is associated with. A perfect example is the phrase ‘Good Day!’. In the European context, a good day is considered a sunny day. But in numerous African cultures, a rainy day is considered to be a good. Here, the culture of the region is influencing the perception of what a ‘good’ day should be.
Fatiha Guessabi, a professor of Language and Translation at the Universite de Bechar in Algeria, states that culture is a language by itself. When one starts off to learn a language, he is also starting to understand the culture, along with the alphabet and the grammar. The idea delivered through language is influenced to a large extent by the body language and the tonal quality of the speaker and the same body language and tonal quality can translate to a new idea in every language due to the culture being a unique aspect of every