Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The daily 45-minute session in the French language laboratory room is where the discipline is at full intensity.

Geoff Bennington encounters French-speaking Canadians almost every day at Burlington Guitar & Amp, where he works as a sales clerk. He’d like to greet the visitors in their own language and maybe even ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? “I feel instinctively that Providence has created France for complete ...

In their 2004 publication, Universality or Specialisation?, Christian Allies and Michel Troquet summed up the dilemma faced by the French higher education system. For France, the existence of an ...