“My homeland is the French language,” author Albert Camus once wrote—and many French people would agree. That’s why any attempt at changing the language is often met with suspicion. So the uproar was ...

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 ...

On June 1, 2022, Bill 96 received assent and officially became law. As a result, Québec’s Charter of the French Language (the “Charter”) underwent its first major transformation since it was passed in ...

Early French immersion programs, designed for students who don’t speak French as a first language, are offered in every ...

With more than two decades of experience in higher education, cultural criticism and politics, Horacio Sierra's writing and public speaking aims to demystify higher education and promote the ...

MONTREAL, May 27 (Reuters) - Backers of Quebec's sweeping new law to promote French usage in the Canadian province hail it as the most important measure in nearly half a century to protect the ...

In the latest step in a long-running battle over whether to make the French language more inclusive, President Emmanuel Macron has urged its speakers "not to give in to the zeitgeist" by using ...

This week is the Semaine de la francophonie. To mark it, RFI language services have focused on bilingual French dictionaries in their given languages and looked at how those dictionaries evolved. The ...

The French language was introduced into Senegal through colonisation. According to Papa Alioune Ndao, professor of linguistics at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar: French was taught in Senegal ...