Then the lights dimmed and St-Pierre followed, bouncing up and down in his traditional karate garb to pulsating French-language rap.
French-language drama Amour and cult-inspired film The Master were the main recipients of this year's Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards.
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Salim Tamani, writing in the French-language Liberte , sees a distinct possibility of Algeria being dragged into a new cycle of violence.
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With concerts of local fiddle bands, French Canadian acts from Quebec, fireworks displays and a French-language Acadian poetry contest, the shindig attracts thousands every year.
Canadian independent authors and publishers can utilize the English- or French-language KDP website to make their books available in Canada and more than 175 countries worldwide.
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Michael Haneke's French-language "Amour, " a perfect film about intertwined lives, proceeds at its own pace, and breathes so deeply that it takes your own breath away.
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The Canada Kindle Store has over 1.5 million Kindle books, including over 250, 000 exclusive books customers won't find anywhere else, over 35, 000 free books, and over 50, 000 French-language titles.
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Commentators in Algeria's French-language press are strongly supportive of the operation, but criticise what they regard as the failure of authorities, and especially the president, to inform the public about the crisis.
Pierre Lescure, a former head of Canal Plus, the television channel, was commissioned by Mr Hollande to make recommendations on how France should adapt its commitment to preserving French-language culture in the fast-changing digital era.
This French-language workshop follows on from an English-language workshop that took place from 22 to 26 October 2012 in Cape town, South Africa, which was carried out in partnership with the African Arts Institute (AFAI).
On one issue of particular importance to many French nationals living in the U.S. and Canada, the two candidates' platforms are similar: Both favor making French-language schools more affordable, and ensuring that schools can find enough qualified faculty.
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Fast-forward to the Revolution of 1789 and francien-derived French was imposed as the language of liberty and nationhood, its spread then aided by the emergence of a French press in the 19th century and, from 1882, by compulsory schooling.
Luxembourg is Luxembourgish-speaking, although French is an official language.
And the language divide is much less contentious in Wales and Scotland than it is in Canada, where pressure for independence in Quebec is intimately bound up with French-speakers' worry about the survival of their language and culture.
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In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.
That is why it took Switzerland more than 20 years to introduce teaching in a second national language (German or French) at the age of 11-plus instead of 14.
Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.
This cultural capitulation by the young seems intolerable to traditional-minded Frenchmen, who regard French culture, as symbolized by their beautiful and precise language, to be the very soul of the nation.
His wide-ranging interests, formidable intelligence, impressive language skills (giving him a command of French, German, Spanish and Russian) and powerful and persuasive rhetorical abilities made him a true national asset.
For example, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA), which manages the dot-ca domain, should pass one million domain name registrations by early 2008, yet implementation of French language characters is only likely to take place in the next few years.
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