Peculiarities of The Modern French colloqual Language

Abstract

Language is a moving system that is always undergoing changes; some words are no longer used and new words appear, political and international events provoke the creation of new actual words that are related to these events. The French language also obeys these rules. The most noticeable changes occur in the most “moving” part of the langaueg, i.e. in the spoken language.

The word, which existed in oral speech and belonged to argotisms, passes from the colloquial language into universal use, is reflected in the dictionary and is considered normative. The most common phenomena in this area of the language are borrowings, especially from the English Langauge. The influence of the English Langauge on the French vocabulary began in the XVIIth century and reached its hifhest extent in the XVIIIth and XIXth century.

Modern French is full of slang expressions. Slang is colloqual language that contains words of slang origin that have become established in common language.

The material presented by us proves that it is necessary to have not only neutral vocabulary and knowledge of grammatical rules of the French language, but also to know the aspects of the spoken language in order to understand our interlocutor, watch movies and read books in the original. Knowledge of slang will allow us to do this. The use of colloqual language elements is considered “natural” and is especcially relevant when dealing with young people, as rhey are not attracted to “classical” language.