America’s English-Only Movement is Short-sighted
By Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow Worse than just pushing a bill that is legally questionable, the English-only movement is woefully ignorant of one key …
Posts in category English Language
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: When the U.S. Entered Mexico
By Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow February 2nd marks the 165th anniversary of the signature of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It ended …
English Speakers Feel Socially Inferior in Quebec
By Julie Barlow I love this piece Peggy Curran wrote in the Montreal Gazette about the emerging “Frenchified” English dialect of Montrealers: “Montreal English has …
Two Books about the Origins of the English Language
In this interesting article from the Times Literary Supplement, Tom Shippey reviews two books about the origins of the English language. The History of English …
English Words in French
Excerpt taken from the book The Story of French (Ch.17) The main reason that English words are not a threat is that most are either fully integrated …
French is the next best thing…after English
In a series called “Which is the Best Language to Learn?” Intelligent Life Magazine asked six authors to write about which language they thought was …
Shut Down of a Reputed French Immersion Program
The English Montreal School Board is threatening to shut down one of the biggest, most reputed French Immersion Programs in Montreal. It happens to be …
Saving French immersion in Montreal
Julie is working hard to save her daughters’ French immersion school, Nesbitt Elementary. But the enemy here isn’t English. In Montreal, English-speaking parents are all …
Five Days to Save Nesbitt
FIVE DAYS TO SAVE NESBITT Save Nesbitt Elementary School It’s a parent’s nightmare. You find out your children’s school has been slated for closure and …