Le français est-il toujours attractif pour les étudiants ?
Is French still attractive to students?

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a continuation of the previous article entitled Considerations on the Decline of the French Language in the Romanian Education. In that article, we theoretically showed that Romanian students choose German more than French, that most of the French multinational companies established in Romania do not require knowledge of French from their employees and that the political, economic and educational factors play a decisive role in the decline of the French language in the Romanian education. In this paper, we want to see if the three points of the conclusion of the previous article are successfully verified through a questionnaire addressed to 243 students. The economic situation, the lack of involvement of France in the award of scholarships or the implementation of a few programs such as Work and Travel, plus the fact that French is considered a difficult language to learn are the main reasons why students choose to study a modern language other than French. Between French and German, students choose German, mostly because German companies in Romania require knowledge of German when hiring, while French companies in Romania ask candidates to know English. Beyond the influence of the economic environment, due to which the number of students who choose French cannot increase, there is an important conclusion: the teaching style, the updated textbooks, the listening exercises, focusing on conversation rather than grammar, all these aspects can make the number of students who choose French not decrease.

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