Posts in category English Language

Sonali Karnick, host of CBC’s “All in a Weekend,” spoke to Julie about the pros and cons of traditional publishing, versus self-publishing. Traditional publishing has …

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 …

By Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow   February 2nd marks the 165th anniversary of the signature of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It ended …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 Save Nesbitt Elementary School It’s a parent’s nightmare. You find out your children’s school has been slated for closure and …