In addition to certificate and part-time diploma programs, the French Language Course is taught in undergraduate, postgraduate, MPhil, and doctorate programs. has 220 million speakers worldwide and around 80 million native speakers. In 29 countries, French is the sixth most widely used language in the world.
The Foreign Service Institute (FSI) estimates that it takes native English speakers 600 hours, or 28 weeks of study, to learn French. A speaker of the French language is referred to as a Francophone.