Monthly Archives: September 2015

Is French culture gone?

This attack on the French intelligentsia seems reasonable and intelligent but some points could use evidence. Is there no answer to these criticisms?  http://www.politico.eu/article/decline-of-french-intellectual-culture-literature-art-philosophy-history/ I wonder if the author didn’t start going wrong in his declaration about Sartre. Yes, he was … Continue reading

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Adventures of living in France. Can we become bilingual? Part II

Stephanie C. has written us before and now adds some of her own French-learning adventures. When she took lessons from me, she was a single American, working in Boston. Now, she’s living in France, married to a French man and … Continue reading

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Adventures of living in France. Can we become bilingual? Part I

Learning – or slowly acquiring – a new language is a miracle. Some of us have been studying it in books and in life, by teaching language as well as studying one, and still don’t know how it “happens.” I … Continue reading

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