#Francophonie

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Seeking English-language services from various kinds of government services in Quebec just became trickier — and the latest change isn’t going over well.

The François Legault government’s linguistic overhaul, known as Bill 96, is designed to protect and bolster the French language in the province. The goal is to guard against its decline, the government says, especially in Montreal.

After delays, more provisions of the law came into effect Thursday — one of which heavily relies on a self-imposed honour system in some cases.

Under the law, civil servants must now use French in an “exemplary” manner, which means they must speak and write exclusively in the language, except in certain cases. The new rule does not apply to the health and social services settings, according to Quebec’s language watchdog.

The latest restriction means only designated groups — such as Quebecers who have the right to English-language schooling, Indigenous people and immigrants who have been here for less than six months — can receive government services in English. [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #francophonie #Québec #Coalition Avenir Québec #François Legault #Bill 96

[ghoulscene]

💭 ꒱ random ★ bios ✧ !

( 💒 ) ࣭ 𓇼 𓈒 ׄ 𝗆𝗂𝗇𝗎𝗂𝗍 .

⸼ 𓍢 🥢 𓄹 𝟶𝟶:𝟶𝟷 ! ׄ  ׅ

𓈒𓏸 ᭡ 𓋲 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘻𝘦𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴 . 🎱

⸼ 🎧 ͙ࣳ  ࣭archive ◌ 𓈒  ✧

𓋼𓍊  𓈒    ׁ ꭼɴꮯꮋꭺɴꭲꭼꭱ ︎ ꔛ   ׁ 🌾  ๋  

#bios #random moodboard #random bios #messy bios #bios messy #layouts anime #packs twitter #messy layouts #messy icons #messycore #francophonie #࣭ 🔗 ׄ ghoulscene 𓂋 #ghoulscene #messy moodboard #random messy packs #random layouts #twitter stuff #twitter users

[wtfcl0ud]

ok go watch my first 'french vlog' there are captions in french idk if you can auto translate the captions like you can with normal videos sorry

#french #francais #vlog #in my youtuber era #lmao #language learning #cloud nonsense #frenchposting #francophonie #frenchblr #langblr

[culturefrancaise]

#upthebaguette #french side of tumblr #france #francophonie #learn french #FLE #allez on partage #always reblog

[didierleclair]

La dictée du commissaire 2023 / The Commissioner's Dictation 2023. THIS IS A DICTATION BASED ON THE NOVEL “TORONTO, I LOVE YOU”. CECI EST UNE DICTÉE BASÉE SUR MON ROMAN “TORONTO, JE T’AIME”.

#youtube #didier leclair #francophonie #canada #toronto #books #novels #littérature #literature

[sarahalainn]

C’est la journée internationale de la #francophonie ! 🇫🇷Pour l’occasion, voici « Comme d’Habitude » Bonne journée

It’s International Francophonie Day! 🇫🇷

Would like to take this opportunity to celebrate the language and connect with people near and far.

Did you know ‘My Way’ is a cover of the French ‘Comme d’habitude’? The lyrics are completely different yet both speak to me about the importance of being true to oneself (tricky in this world!)

Hope you can find your way.

Love, Sarah

3月20日は「世界フランス語の日」🇫🇷

「My Way」の原曲はフランス語だとご存知ですか？

歌詞は全く違うけど、どちらも私にとって大事なメッセージが込められています。

一度しかない人生。偽りなく、自分らしく、your way, my way、進んでみませんか？

フルバージョンは @youtube で　🇫🇷

〜サラより

#myway #commedhabitude #francophonie #sarahalainn #サラオレイン #french #france #フランス語

#comme d’habitude #my way #francophonie #サラ・オレイン #sarah àlainn #sarah alainn #サラオレイン #サラスタイル #メンタルヘルス #mental health #France #French #Youtube

[smartway2000]

La Conjugaison du Verbe FAIRE à l'indicatif | Apprendre le Français

👋 La conjugaison est la base de la langue française.

Cette vidéo vous propose la conjugaison du verbe FAIRE aux différents temps de l'indicatif : le présent, le passé composé, le futur simple, le passé simple, l'imparfait, le plus-que-parfait, le futur antérieur, le passé antérieur.

🚀 Pour voir la vidéo cliquez ici 👉 YouTube

#apprendre le français #langue française #français #francophonie #frenchblr #conjugaison français #french language #apprendre #education #french #vocabulaire français #la conjugaison #conjugaison #verbes français #verbe faire #indicatif

[burntblueberrywaffles]

Love seeing a random comment on the internet where "the" is written "thé", like ah yes, my francophone brethren I see we both fall victim to French autocorrect

#francais #burntblueberrywaffles #francophonie #Idk how tf to tag this lmao

[empanada2017]

#frases #textos #tumblr #vida #argentina #desahogo #españa #francophonie #france #frasi belle #fraud #frat boy #colombia #italia

[allthecanadianpolitics]

I'm going to clarify some stuff here, on my position concerning commentary like this and what it insinuates. Please do not attack or target this person, I'm using this commentary as an example, they are by no means the only person who has made commentary like this, and I'm just trying to educate.

There are a lot of issues with comments like this. Québec is an French-speaking province that is implementing more and more discriminatory rules against anglo and allophones in the province, making it harder for these individuals to seek basic services and making it legal to discriminate based on language, all this under the guise of 'la protection de la francophonie'. This is obviously heinous and a form of collective punishment if justified with the former persecution of French-speakers in Québec and class gap that overlapped with the gap between francophones and anglophones. HOWEVER, French-Canadians =/= French-speaking Québécois. There are large underserved francophone communities in other provinces such as Manitoba, Saskatchewan, etc... that also experience linguistic discrimination. Persecution of anglophones in Québec doesn't justify further snide commentary and discrimination against French-speaking Canadians as a whole. I would like to urge people not to express this kind of attitude on the posts of this blog. Direct your anger at Québec and its colonial institutions, which hypocritically seeks to continue the destruction of minority languages and do nothing to protect, preserve, or reinvigorate Indigenous languages; all the while claiming minority status for their own and using it as a cudgel to justify discrimination.

If you have any further concerns, address me at my main blog @el-shab-hussein, my inbox is open. I am not the main admin of this blog I am just one of the assistants helping run it.

#cdnpoli #francophonie #racism #xenophobia #Indigenous persecution #Québec #Bill 96

[anakinsafterlife]

Music and Arts for Interview with the Vampire and other French-Enjoyers

I am so genuinely excited to find out that Zachary Richard, the Francophone folk singer from Louisiana, has released a novel! The story addresses the concerns of the American Francophonie with the story of a family wracked by politics and violence in the wakr of the American Civil War.

Friends, this the is the first American novel to be published in French since 1894! Although there is still a Francophone community in Louisiana to this day, they have been dealing with forced Anglicization for well over a hundred years, including the forced Anglophone education of Francophone children.

Zachary Richard remains an outlier in an largely English American cultural landscape. He wrote and recorded the majority of his songs in French and is popular in the international Francophone musical community.

I have been meaning to talk about Richard for a very long time, particular in the context of Interview with the Vampire. There are a good many cultural references in Interview, but unfortunately it seems that the show-runners are not really too informed about historical French arts because there aren't many references to French music or playwriting. Lestat would be more likely to act Moliere than Shakespeare. Louis would be somewhere in between, probably listening to and speaking both French and English songs. Unfortunately, I'm not too familiar with Black Creole musicians, of which there were/are indeed plenty in Louisiana. I've been meaning to educate myself in that area and post a selection along with my favourite tracks from Richard, but life has been very pressing indeed these last few years, so that never happened.

Here, then, are a few of my favourite songs from Zachary Richard and a few brief recordings from Black Zydeco artists, as well as the blurb from Richard's novel.

I didn't include translations, because that would make this long post long indeed, but Richard's lyrics are readily available in any search engine.

The novel:

Summary:

In the disarray that fell on southern Louisiana following the Civil War, André Boudreaux, seventeen years old, discovered life with his grandfather Drozin. This southern veteran, who became a rich man thanks to the arrival of the railway, tries to regain his prestige and his political power. But the sordid murder of André's uncle, the turbulent elections of 1882 and the political aims of his daughter-in-law will turn his world upside down. Les Rafales du carême is the first French-language novel published by a Louisiana author since 1894.

The music:

Dans les grands chemins. (On the big roads). A song about personal history and being drawn away from your place of origin to explore the wider world.

Au bord de Lac Bijou (On the shore of Lac Bijou). One of his bigger songs and very basic of me, but it's beautiful.

Le Ballade de Jean Batailleur. Again, one of his big ones, but it's a ballad about an orphan who grows up to be a criminal and dies alone. Depressing but gorgeous.

And this one gives me chills every time. It's a live rendition of Richard's song "La Promesse Cassee," performed with Celine Dion. This is hands down Dion's best performance ever, imho. Her voice is so nuanced and her expression so powerful, without ever once over-singing. The song's content probably has a lot to do with that. Richard wrote it in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, when New Orleans was so utterly devastated, and the US federal government promised aid, which, after days of waiting, never came. "The Broken Promise" is a scathing and haunting commentary on that betrayal.

"Laisse le vent souffler" (Let the wind blow) addresses the same issue, but years later. The singer tells the story of the police arriving to evacuate the community as another hurricaine approaches. He refuses to leave because he has already survived other storms and he has seen how the police have failed to support a scattered community in the past.

Can't believe I almost forgot this one:

Reveille--A powerful song addresses the expulsion of the Acadians, the forced removal (by British/English Canadian forces) of the Acadian French from the Canadian east coast and northern USA east coast. Many of the Acadians were shipped further south or "back" to Europe, where most had never been. Plagued by attendant atrocities of starvation, drowning and disease, thousands of Acadians were killed. Those who survived the journey down the American coast eventually became known by the shortened name of "Cajuns."

There are also a few extra things here from Richard's YouTube, where he highlights other Louisiana French singers and musicians. I've only included a couple, but people writing for Interview might want to explore his page more, since there's some Black Zydeco (Louisiana folk and French) musicians there.

J'ai une chanson dans mon coeur:

I couldn't find anything out about this. A young, Black American girl sings this song in an American school. I think, and hope, that she's another member of the French Louisianian musical community. Very sweet.

Zachary Richard talking about his influences and earlier Zydeco music in Louisiana.

#music #francophonie #zydeco #zachary richard #interview with the vampire #louisiana french #french american #books #Youtube #french #francais #north american french #acadian french #cajuns #amc interview with the vampire

[pawoooon]

#francophonie #insécurité linguistique #Français #canada français

[dorianmathay]

(J) DERRIDA.éd_Galilée.2006.(op.cit) 81p:"[...]dans ce qui donne son ton au ton, un rythme.[...]contracté à l'école, ce goût hyperbolique pour la pureté de la langue. Et partant pour l'hyperbole en général. Une hyperbolite incurable. Une hyperbolite généralisée. Enfin, j'exagère. J'exagère toujours." & (81-82p):"parler en bon français, en français pur, même au moment de s'en prendre, de mille façons, à tout ce qui s'y allie et parfois à tout ce qu'il habite. Cet hyperbolisme (《plus français que le français》, plus 《purement français 》que ne l'exigeait la pureté des puristes alors même que, depuis toujours, je m'en prend à la pureté et à la purification en général, et bien sûr aux 《ultras》d'Algérie), cet extrémisme intempérant et compulsif, je l'ai sans doute contracté à l'école, oui, dans les différentes écoles françaises où j'ai passé ma vie. (Tiens, est-ce fortuit, les institutions qui m'ont hébergé, même dans l'enseignement dit supérieur, se sont appelées 'écoles', plus souvent que 'universités')."※

Mais je viens de le suggérer, cette démesure fut sans doute plus archaïque en moi que l'école . Tout avait du commencer avant la maternelle ; il me restait donc à l'analyser plus près de mon antiquité [...]j'ai [..] besoin de me reporter à cette antiquité pré-scolaire pour rendre compte de la généralité de cet 'hyperbolisme' qui auras envahie ma vie et mon travail.(83p)Les choses changèrent plus vite qu'au rythme des générations.[..] Mais il y eut un moment singulier dans le cours de cette même histoire. Pour tous les phénomènes de ce type, la guerre précipite la précipitation générale. [...] la guerre reste un formidable 'accélérateur'.[..] juste après le [D]ébarquement des Allié[(e)]s en Afrique du Nord, en [N]ovembre 1942, on assiste alors à la constitution d'une sorte de capitale littéraire de la France en exil à Alger. Effervescence culturelle, présence des écrivains 'célèbres', prolifération de revues et d'initiatives éditoriales. Cela confère aussi une visibilité plus théâtrale à la littérature algérienne d'expression, comme on dit, française, qu'[eILe] s'agisse d'écrivains d'origine européenne (Camus et bien d'autres) ou, mutation très différente, d'écrivains d'origine algérienne. Quelques années plus tard, dans le sillage [..]de cet étrange [..]gloire, j'ai été comme harponné par la littérature et la philosophie française, l'une et l'autre, l'une ou l'autre 『sugg.: 'l'une <&> l'autre-』: flèches de métal ou de bois, corps pénétrant de paroles enviables, redoutables , inaccessibles alors qu'elles entraient en moi, phrases qu'il fallait à la fois s'approprier, domestiquer, 〔italic;'amadouer'〕, c'est-à-dire aimer en enflammant, brûler[..], peut-être détruire, en tout cas marquer, transformer, tailler, entailler, forger, greffer au feu, faire venir autrement, autrement dit, à soi en soi." & (85p.:) ' Mais le rêve qui devait commencer alors de se rêver, c'était peut–être de lui faire 『arriver』quelque chose, à cette langue.[...]."

#DERRIDA #grammatologie #FLE #francophonie #post_ #modernism #philosophy #language #idiom #musicality in speech #Albert CAMUS #minorité francophone #(m)other_tongue

[le-nid-du-poete]

En grandissant, le sauvage, lui, ne perd jamais son paradis d'enfant à moins qu'il 'en soit chassé de force.

Bruce Chatwin - Anatomie de l'errance

#bruce chatwin #chatwin #anatomiedelerrance #citation #citation francaise #french quotes #le nid du poète #littérature #littératurefrancophone #francophonie

[acutemushroom]

I'm curious about something

How many people on Tumblr speak French? I'm curious about the demographics. Myself I am a native speaker. Please reblog for samples and put your answer in the tags thanks 😊

#french #français #francophonie #polls #reblog for sample size #i'm curious

[didierleclair]

#jazz #jazz music #écrivain #littérature #didier leclair #francophonie