{"id":5902,"date":"2007-01-12T15:33:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/?p=5902"},"modified":"2012-07-18T13:21:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:21:38","slug":"the-story-of-french-in-the-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/the-story-of-french-in-the-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of French in The Independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/reviews\/plus-ccedila-change-by-jeanbenoicirct-nadeau-amp-julie-barlow-431691.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-590\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"The Independent\" src=\"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/logo-independent-sunday.png\" alt=\"The Independent\" width=\"253\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Plus \u00e7a Change, by Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau &amp; Julie Barlow<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Revive la diff\u00e9rence!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By John Lichfield<\/p>\n<p>When I was three, I was fluent in French. Then my francophone Belgian granny died and my mother stopped speaking French at home. At 11, I had to start again with avoir and \u00eatre like my schoolmates. All the same, French has never sounded like a foreign language. I adore the melody of its vowels, even if I cannot convincingly replicate them. My active French is functional. Passively, I am a francophone.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This linguistic schizophrenia may not be so unusual. Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau and Julie Barlow have in Plus \u00e7a Change written an excellent book on the history of the French language, stuffed with surprises, insight and humour. One of their theories is that all English speakers have a kind of background tape of French playing inside their heads. The two languages have been in a state of loving warfare for almost a thousand years, competing with each other, taking captives, despising and admiring each other.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/books\/reviews\/plus-ccedila-change-by-jeanbenoicirct-nadeau-amp-julie-barlow-431691.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Plus \u00e7a Change, by Jean-Beno\u00eet Nadeau &amp; Julie Barlow Revive la diff\u00e9rence! By John Lichfield When I was three, I was fluent &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5902"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5989,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5902\/revisions\/5989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nadeaubarlow.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}