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Paris Perspective #11: The politics of language in France


Paris Perspective
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20/05/2021 - 16:36
Between 600 and 800 people gathered in Paris on 30 November, 2019 in front of the Ministry of National Education. Coming from Brittany, Corsica, Occitania, Alsace, the Basque Country and French Catalonia to demonstrate against the reform of the high school and the baccalaureate implemented September 2019 which weakens the learning of minority languages. © AgenceBretagnePresse
10 min
Speaking a regional tongue in French classrooms used to be met with aggressive punishment. Now, with their languages teetering on extinction following centuries of neglect, speakers of Breton, Basque, Occitan and others are pushing for state recognition. As Paris Perspective discovers, it has long been a thorny subject. ....

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Commentary: Learning another language has benefits - just not the economic kind


Commentary: Learning another language has benefits - just not the economic kind
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Commentary: Learning another language has benefits - just not the economic kind
Learning a foreign language becomes pointless in this era of global English and machine translation, says the Financial Times Simon Kuper.
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LONDON: I’m a rootless cosmopolitan, so we’re moving the family to Spain for a year. 
The kids are up for it. Growing up with anglophone parents in Paris, they speak French and English, and once you know one Romance language, learning another is a cinch. ....

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