CBC Radio Interview on The Story of Spanish

Listen to CBC’s All in a Weekend radio show from May 11, 2013 where host Sonali Karnick talks with Nadeau & Barlow about The Story of Spanish, their next book on Arabic and their upcoming trip to France. Listen »

Cinco de Mayo: A U.S. Celebration

In this interview with Mike McConnell from WGN radio in Chicago, Julie explains why Cinco de Mayo is more American than Mexican. Listen to the interview »

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PRI’s The World in Words and The Story of Spanish

Patrick Cox from PRI’s The World in Words talks with Julie Barlow about The Story of Spanish. Listen to the podcast » Watch bonus footage of the interview »
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The Story of Spanish: Now in Bookstores

More than three years after we started researching and writing The Story of Spanish, it’s finally in stores! Get your copy now at:
Amazon, Amazon.ca, IndieBound, Barnes & Noble, Chapters-Indigo and MacMillan.

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The Wall Street Journal: Cinco de Mayo No Hecho en México, Actually

Julie and Jean-Benoît Nadeau published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, May 3. Read the article »

A Compelling Compendium

Booklist’s starred review of The Story of Spanish: “Nadeau and Barlow once again present a thoroughly researched linguistic history. Part anthropological study, part travelogue, this volume is an entirely compelling compendium.” Read more »

Nuevo Mundo Interviews Nadeau & Barlow

Nuevo Mundo Television host Ginella Díaz interviewed Julie and Jean-Benoît about the making of The Story of Spanish for the show La Voz Latina in Spanish.

Upcoming Events

New York, May 21, 2013: Cervantes Institute
Washington, May 22, 2013: Embassy of Spain in Washington
San Antonio, July 8, 2013: The American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese 95th Annual Conference
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Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau are bestselling authors of books on language and culture. Partners in life and writing, the couple lives in Montreal, Canada with their twin daughters.

Como escritores trilingües, Jean-Benoît Nadeau y Julie Barlow han dedicado sus carreras a cerrar brechas culturales, primero como periodistas, y ahora como autores.

Monthly Archives: October 2006

Successful languages: Authors say english has helped french

By Nadeau&Barlow | October 21, 2006

By Pat Donnelly

Who knew that at the time of the French Revolution, the vast majority (about 75 per cent) of the population of France did not speak fluent French?

Apparently, Catalan was big in those days. So was Breton. As one French official wrote in 1794: “Federalism and superstition speak Breton, emigration and hatred of the Republic speak German, the counter-revolution speaks Italian and fanaticism speaks Basque.”

These surprising historical details are among many that jump off the page while reading Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow’s The Story of French, an ambitious work that places our own French-vs.- English language squabbles within the context of the 1,000-year history of the French language. Read more »