All posts on octubre, 2011

Julie visited Occupy Wall Street when she was in New York last week. Anyone can walk in and tour the site. It was like an …

Watch the 2nd part of the debate » Is French culture dead? And is the French language fading into oblivion? France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs …

Excerpt taken from the book The Story of French (Ch. 6) Vandalisme (vandalism), anarchisme (anarchism) and terrorisme (terrorism) all took their present meaning in English from …

On October 19th, Jean-Benoît Nadeau participated in a debate with the Time’s former European bureau chief Donald Morrison, organized by France’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Estates-General on …

On Saturday, October 1st, 2011, in association with les Journées de la Culture / Culture Days, PWAC Quebec (Professional Writers Association of Canada) held a book …

Excerpt taken from the book The Story of French (Ch. 7) Like the issue of the Belgian accent, that of the Suisse accent is complicated. …

Excerpt taken from the book The Story of French (Ch. 1) At the beginning of our research, Jean-Benoît travelled to the island of Jersey, a …

Is there too much English in Quebec schools? On Oct. 13, 2011, on Bazzo.tv (Télé-Québec), Jean-Benoît Nadeau and Gérald Larose debated on Quebec’s intensive English language program. Watch …

Quebec and France: two different cultures separated by the same language! On the French radio program TOUT UN MONDE, which aired on Oct. 11th, 2011, Jean-Benoit …

Excerpt taken from the book The Story of French (Ch. 1) The Gaulish language ended up contributing very little to the vocabulary of modern French. …