Posts in category Divers

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 …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Excerpt taken from the book The Story of French (Ch. 1)   Very few people know that French has its place in the world not …