This sticks out to me, I enjoy a lot of French music, film, and literature (Simone de Beauvoir is the best). Being in art history much of the critical history is originally in French with France massively contributing to the development of "fine art", so I very much agree with point on culture.

I think the author means that the variety of cultures and cultures and peoples that speak French globally is much like a constellation or galaxy in both vastness and diversity.

1. The graph is looking at the evolution across 5 linguistic groups (French, Spanish, Germanic, and Arabic) for the amount of those who it is their official language. The y-axis denotes number of people in millions, while the x-axis denotes years from 1965 to projected values of 1965. these later values display French as exponentially growing while other language plateua or steadily rise at a slower rate.

Q4: French is used when speaking with family, at school, at work, and when interacting with those from other countries.

Per question 3: French is spoken on 5 continents.

I think the text will be informative as the main focus is delivering statistics relating to French-speaking in a global context. The voice seems to be very objective with an overarching goal of calling attention to the vast variety of French speakers internationally.

Cognates: Langue, le mandarin l'hindi, continents, territoires, millions, personnes, capables, estimation

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