French language

Trudeau had a big impact on supporting and forming a strong bond of multiculturalism of all ethnic groups in Canada. He also played a significant role in forming Canada into a bilingual country, showing how much he supported the French language just as much as the English language. There were lots of issues happening with Quebec wanting to be…

that you’ll discover along the way. To minimise culture shock when you’re in France, let me share to you these 6 things I wish I knew before travelling to France. • French people want you to speak their language. French people speak English, not all but many of them. If you speak English, many of them won’t reply in the same language. This can be quite a bad travel experience that you will never forget. Having visited France several times, I was amazed by their culture. Yet, one thing that I…

France is one of the few countries of the world which still has its different departments that are spread across the world. French Polynesia is one of such French colonial regions. It is present in the Tahitian region and lies in the south of the Pacific Ocean. It is termed as an overseas country in French and consists of 118 separate islands. French Polynesia is quite spread out and its outlying islands are separated by a distance of over two thousand kilometers. The total are of the region is…

Central to the separatist movement of the latter half of the twentieth century was the argument that Quebec needed to become an independent state in order to ensure the survival of the French language, uphold the integrity of Quebecois culture, and allow Quebec’s government to proficiently govern its own affairs. In the views of many, the fact that Quebec has managed to do these things in recent decades without sovereignty has diminished the need and legitimacy of calls for separation. In my…

provinces, being the largest majority french speaking province within Canada. The Quebec nationalist does not feel ties to France per se, but more of a tie to their own unique identity. In Canadian history “The case of Quebec illustrates how ethnicity, through powerful symbolic appeals to cultural survival, can be politicized to the extent of seriously threatening…

France France is an amazing country, Paris also known as the city of love which holds the famous Eiffel Tower is its capital. The official Language Is french which is spoken by 88% of the population. Other languages Include english, spanish, and german. France is located Right above Spain and below Belgium and Germany, and on the coast of the bay of biscay. Some major cities include Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes, Lyon, and Strasbourg.Paris and Marseille being the first and…

Preceding the French revolution, there were two main historical periods which I believe had a major impact on the development of French Identity, one positive, the other negative: the Hundred Years War (1337 -1453) and the Wars of Religion (1562-1598), representing respectively periods of external threat to and internal conflict in France. Examination of both periods reveals the driving force in each period of threat and conflict and the instinct of peoples, as Thiesse observes, to become more…

It’s not easy to learn a new language that one never hear or speak before. Therefore, learning a new language can be tedious or detrimental for many people. However, for others, who are familiar with the language already, can say it’s effortless. From my perspective, learning a new language can be difficult. Perseverance and a thrill to learn, one can master this new skill. My encounter to learn a new language starts with when I went to the country (Guinea) in West Africa. People in this…

became King Henry II). Italian cooks were light years ahead of French culinary specialists. These chefs had started making a variety of dishes. For example, manicotti, and lasagna. In addition, they had tested the use of ingredients like garlic, truffles, and mushrooms. The French Revolution additionally achieved a defining moment in the food industry, since it initiated the fall of guilds. With guilds no longer functional, any French cook could create as well as offer any kind of food product…

Acadia was unmistakably a separate colony of New France, developing their own variant of the French language and traditions. The Acadians were the descendants of the 17th century colonists of Port Royal (present day Annapolis Royal). Tribulations of warfare by the French and British resulted in the tragic Grand Derangement. Expelled because of reasons by the British, dispersed throughout the British settlements, and the effect it had on the Acadian people and the history of Nova Scotia is…