English is spoke more
Louis Riel was a highly educated man who spoke and read both French and English fluently.
He spoke French, but also spoke Italian and English fluently.
No, he spoke French
She spoke English and French
Depended on what country they were living in. French, French, English, English . But often educated/Noble English spoke French since William the Conquer was French and that carried on ( still does Elizabeth today has all her menus in French). This even carried over to the English colonies that educated men read/spoke French.
I think the English started "borrowing" the words that the Vikings and French spoke.
More people spoke English in the North, because it had a larger population
Apart from his native Dutch, Burgmans spoke German, English, a smattering of French, and Bahasa Indonesian.
Prior to the Norman conquest of 1066, England spoke Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon or Ænglisc.After the Norman Conquest of 1066, English was replaced by Anglo-Norman for awhile, by the upper class, while the Old English that was spoken by the common people developed into the next historical form of English, known as Middle English.
"You have spoken" and "You all spoke" are English equivalents of the French phrase Vous avez parlé. Context makes clear whether one "you" (case 1) or two or more "you all" (example 2) suits. The pronunciation will be "voo-za-vey par-ley" in French.
Yes, she spoke French fluently. She even spoke to Sonia Gandhi (then Maino) in French upon their first meeting in India, knowing that Sonia spoke French better than English at the time. In the related link you she reads a short speech in French.
The 'Lingua Franca' was French for decades... maybe centuries but when more people in the world spoke English the Lingua Franca became English.