LE PECQ, France -- The fight to make the French language kinder to women took steps forward, and back, last week. Warning that the well-being of France and its future are at stake, the government ...

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Earlier this year, they disclosed their latest tranche — from “sommation to spermatophytes.” They began work on the S’s in December 2017 — after working on the R’s since November 2012. While working ...

Explore the art of French, engage with its cultures and rediscover your own through others’ perspectives. The Department of French Studies offers about 30 courses in French language, literature and ...

France has banned the use of gender-neutral language in schools, citing "harm" to the learning of the French language. In a decree sent to schools across France, the country's education ministry aimed ...

When it comes to languages, and minority languages in particular, the vocabulary employed often arouses debate due to the political positions of and the state of relations between linguistic ...

Standup comedian Jacques Silvère Bah, known as Le Magnific, played with French and African words and accents at a humor festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in February. Arlette Bashizi for The New York ...

"A long, long, long time ago, France was called Gaul and the French, the Gauls." Does this phrase ring a bell? Perhaps set to music and sung by the Belgian Annie Cordy (1928-2020) in 1978, it would ...

A PHILOSOPHY graduate and unpublished novelist, Emmanuel Macron treats French culture like a national treasure, and the French language as a jewel. “French is the language of reason, it’s the language ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. Juliet and Lana attend École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion ...

We offer undergraduate courses in French language, literature and culture. The language courses make use of CU’s ALTEC language lab to provide maximum flexibility in language learning, with rich audio ...