Switching the Keyboard Language

Hi all:

I was just wondering if there is an option on OS X to change the keyboard language from English to French. I'm currently taking two courses in French @ school and it's a bummer always to have to go to insert>symbol in Word 2004 just to get the accent or the French quotation marks. I've checked the keyboard options in system preferences in vain.
I'm getting a little frustrated because I always have to switch back to Windows to write all my French papers... If anybody has a solution to this problem, please let me know!
Thanks.

Bump. Anybody?

Switching the keyboard layout back and forth is a bit of a pain. Better to just memorize the shortcuts.

http://tlt.psu.edu/suggestions/international/accents/codemac.html

Incidentally, you could have easily found an answer for your actual question with a search.