Word: francaise
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Imagine mastering 15 languages in 26 years. The sheer math—gaining near fluency in a new foreign language every 1.73 years—might boggle the mind of even the most jaded Harvard overachievers. Now imagine learning 15 languages with the knowledge that you’ll never...
Last week, the French Ministry of Finance banned "e-mail," "start-up" and other imported English lingo from appearing in the official statements of the French civil service, replacing the words with critically scrutinized, if completely unclear, French counterparts. Jeune pousse (French for "young plant") hardly conjures images of e...
Yet Candide is not entirely fun and games. While it attacks high learning, the army the aristocracy, government, casinos and law enforcement with clever sarcasm and wit, it also portrays slavery and prostitution with the same humor. It pokes fun at Catholic priests, Jews, New World Indians and others in...
Ou vont-ils les garcons francais?
Thomas C. Conley is professor of romance languages and literatures and is currently teaching Foreign Cultures 21: "Cinema et culture francais, de 1923 a nos jours."