Three classic Francophone tubes I’d never heard of
Boby Lapointe in Ta Katie t’as quitté, Petit Yodé and l’Enfant Siro in Premier jour à Paris, and Zao’s take on Ancien combattant.
Tag: french language
Presenting authorial & editorial notes in a Kindle edition of a 16th century bilingual text
Hints gratefully received…
A tribute to the Valencian work ethic
Featuring my draft recording of “El dilluns jo no treballe”, with various other European “7 days lazy” songs.
The Hispanic Orthography Files, continued
Plus a zarzuela/politics RFI.
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Competing Amazigh and Arabic etymologies of “beur”
And “beurette,” of course, this being the Year of Zahia Dehar, who sounds like she may escape from being shagged up the bum by Pierre Woodman.
Spanish, most popular elective extra-curricular language in English higher education
Now ahead of French, while German is being overtaken by Chinese.
Regional government doesn't have to be a hysterical disaster
Georges Frêche in Languedoc-Roussillon: If possible with Paris, if necessary without Paris, but never against Paris.
Born, not made
The Spanish, making progress with a backlog of untranslated English snowclones?
100 best lycées in France
A Google Maps/Le Figaro mashup.
Catalan language policy: Marxist, Stalinist, Francoist or fascist?
The precedents for, and some possible implications of, the Catalanisation of Barcelona’s cinemas. Plus some crowd-pleasing video of the Quebec language police in action. (Allez! Allez! Allez! And the hell with the economy!) All in somewhat fevered response to an article by Martin Dahms in the Tages-Anzeiger.