Calling it a 'foreign' language sounds odd to me. As a Canadian French is not foreign as in not a language of this nation even though I don't speak it. Maybe f

Calling it a 'foreign' language sounds odd to me. As a Canadian French is not foreign as in not a language of this nation even though I don't speak it. Maybe foreign to the person not to your nation is what's meant. Even in the US Spanish wouldn't be even though English is the only unofficial official language. Even French is part of US languages from parts of Maine to my Acadian neighbours who went to Louisiana.