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Geographical distribution of French speakers

Okay kiddo, so you know how people all around the world speak different languages, right? Well, one of those languages is called French, which is spoken by millions of people.

Now, if we look at a big map of the world, we can see that French speakers live in many different countries, including France (which is where most of them come from), Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, and some countries in Africa like Senegal, Ivory Coast, and Madagascar.

This is called the geographical distribution of French speakers because we're looking at where they live on the map. It's like how some animals live in certain places because they need specific things to survive, like polar bears living in cold places with lots of ice.

But even though French speakers live in many different countries, they all share a common language. That means they can understand each other when they speak French, even if they live thousands of miles away from each other!

So, the geographical distribution of French speakers is really just a fancy way of saying that people who speak French live in different parts of the world, but they can still connect and share their language with others who speak it too. Cool, huh?