Julie works in Lewiston, Maine, on St. John the Baptist
On the feast day of St. John the Baptist, (La Fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste), the Franco Center, in association with the Franco-American Collection at USM/LAC …
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The Real Story of the French Language Police
By Jean-Benoît Nadeau & Julie Barlow On a website for expats living in France I ran across an interesting list of English words that the …
National French Week: Celebrating the French Way of Life
No, French week is not a Canadian event where everyone has to speak French. Organized by the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), National …
Maclean’s Magazine Quotes Jean-Benoît Nadeau on the French Language and Immigrants in Quebec
Jean-Benoît Nadeau, co-author of The Story of French is quoted in Maclean’s recent article by Martin Patriquin: Will immigrants save the French language, or hasten …
You Don’t Have to Speak French at Home to Be a Francophone
L’office québecois de la langue française’s (Quebec Office of the French Language) just published a report that shows the French language is losing ground in …
Drowning in English
Jean-Benoit recently attended a conference of the association, Francophonie des Amériques where he heard University of Laval professor Michelle Daveluy speak about her adventures aboard …
One Million Words ~ Is Quebec French a “Dialect?”
Written by Julie Barlow The American Association of Teachers of French is holding its Annual Conference in Montreal this summer on July 7th, 2011. A …