Introduction

The French Language has been one of the core language subjects offered to DBS students for over a century for Non-Chinese Speaking (NCS) students. It has also been taught at DBSPD since its founding in 2004.

Some key figures about French Language:

• the 2nd most learnt foreign language after English
• the 3rd most used language in the business world
• the 4th language most commonly used on the Internet
• the 5th most spoken language with 274 million speakers in the world.