The classic "bonjour, hi" greeting in Montreal is known by many Vermonters who venture up to the multi-lingual city. A new language bill that recently went into effect in Quebec aims to strengthen the ...

French Tables are plentiful in the area. Like French Immersion in our schools and Cajun food at home or in a restaurant, you can find a time and place to enhance your French language pretty much ...

When Taylor Townsend learned she needed four courses in a foreign language as part of her history degree requirements at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, the junior jumped in with both feet ...

A Cajun radio station in South Louisiana has been broadcasting for 69 years. It's preserving the culture and the tradition of broadcasting live music from a bar every Saturday morning. There's a ...

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 ...

Every year on 20 March, the Francophone world celebrates the International Day of La Francophonie, which is also French Language Day at the United Nations. This date marks the birth of the ...

Due to its colonial past with France, Togo adopted French as its official language in 1960, a fact enshrined in Article 3 of the country's constitution. But what place does French now have in Togo’s ...

The French Charter was adopted in 1977 by the Quebec government to protect the French language. Through the French Charter, the French language holds status as the official language in the province of ...

On May 13, 2021, Quebec’s Minister Responsible for the French Language, Simon Jolin-Barrette, tabled Bill 96 – An Act respecting French, the official and common language of Québec (Bill 96) before the ...

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