Tag: French language
Humor: Pablo Mira, political candidate for president … laughter
As the French presidential election debates begin, some comedians have decided to make fun of the campaign. Pablo Mira publishes in the manner of a lambda candidate, a real political…
Language teaching: can accents be learned?
What is the accent? Can we learn them? Or on the contrary get rid of it? Advertising What didactics apply to learn a foreign language with the accent of the…
How does computerized language change our speech and our relationships?
Some expressions that were only used in mechanical and computer language have now entered everyday language. Advertising The computerized language at all costs, would it invade our language at all…
Literature: “Grey Bees”, by Andrei Kurkov
Andrei Kurkov is a “resident of war”, like the characters in his new novel. The Russian-speaking Ukrainian writer recounts the road movie of his character, a 49-year-old beekeeper, and comments…
Documentary: “How is your name?”, trip to the France of first names
There are nearly 13,000 first names in France! In 1993, a law liberalized the choice of first names. Advertising What do first names represent today? What do they say about…
The quirks of the French language with Jean-Loup Chiflet
What words are missing in the French language? What is a heterophone homograph? Do you know the paryponoian? Advertising With this unexpected dictionary, the writer and editor Jean-Loup Chiflet tells…
Serge Bilé: Johnny Hallyday and the yéyé wave in the 1960s in Africa
1960: the yéyé wave breaks over Dakar, Abidjan, Bamako, Brazzaville. Like in France. Johnny is also the ” teen idol “, he embodies freedom and certain songs (“ black is…
Fawzia Zouari, thread, blood and words, a look back at a Tunisian childhood
Born in Le Kef in Tunisia, Fawzia Zouari holds a doctorate in French and comparative literature. Based in Paris since 1979, she is a journalist and writer. His work is…
Special program 400 years of Molière! What role internationally?
This year, Molière is 400 years old! An opportunity to celebrate with great fanfare one of the best-known and most performed playwrights. Of Tartuffe to Imaginary illness, what remains of…
Literature: Julia Deck, National Monument, social comedy around a legacy
At the castle, there is the father, old lion of French cinema and national glory. There is the young wife, ex-Miss Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, entirely devoted to her family and to…