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Grammar with Elodie — "U" vs. "OU"
Bonjour à tous! Elodie Kaplan, our wonderful co-director of the learning center sits down with us and gives us grammar and pronunciation tips when learning French. In this series of the Mais Oui! Podcast, get to know her and improve your French!
Read more »Grammar with Elodie — the ins and outs of H's and S's
Bonjour à tous! Elodie Kaplan, our wonderful co-director of the learning center sits down with us and gives us grammar and pronunciation tips when learning French. In this series of the Mais Oui! Podcast, get to know her and improve your French!
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Sitting down with an old laureate, Jacob.
Let’s hear back from one of our old laureates: Jacob Hamburger! Back up: Apart from being the leading French language and cultural center of Chicago, for the last 35 years, the Alliance Française has been proud to send outstanding students to France each year under the Alliance Française de Chicago McCormick Award for Excellence Scholarship Program.
Read more »Grammar with Elodie — intonation and vowels
Bonjour tout le monde! Elodie Kaplan, our wonderful co-director of the learning center sits down with us and gives us grammar and pronunciation tips when learning French. In this series of the Mais Oui! Podcast, get to know her and improve your French!
Read more »Mais Oui! Podcast - Maël's Recommendation (en français)
The Mais Oui! Podcast from the Alliance Française de Chicago continues! Today- episode 5 of the Staff Recommendation series. We talk to Maël Ginsburger (Culture and Administration intern), as he gives us his library recommendations! Stay tuned…
Read more »Mais Oui! Podcast - Marie's Recommendation (en français)
The Mais Oui! Podcast from the Alliance Française de Chicago continues! Today- episode 3 of the Staff Recommendation series. We talk to Marie Lhuillery-Weber (brand specialist), as she gives us her library recommendations! Stay tuned…
Read more »Mais Oui! Podcast - Zoe's Recommendation
The Mais Oui! Podcast from the Alliance Française de Chicago continues! Today- episode 4 of the Staff Recommendation series. We talk to Zoe Moore (cultural intern) before her internship is up, as she gives us her library recommendations! Stay tuned…
Read more »Mais Oui! Podcast from the Alliance Française de Chicago
Welcome to the very first Mais Oui! Podcast from the Alliance Française de Chicago. This podcast will feature different series and topics throughout the coming months. Today, we welcome Renée Saito (director of the Brown Library), as our first guest in the “Staff Recommendations” series! Stay tuned…
Read more »Christiane Taubira, « On n’y échappera pas »
Taubira… Ce nom porte des consonances différentes pour chaque personne vivant en France, mais il est rarement inconnu. Il évoque souvent une loi, celle de 2013, qui a valu à son auteure les insultes les plus féroces d’une grande part de la population et du personnel politique mais aussi le sincère respect d’une autre part de la population, probablement plus nombreuse encore. Mais pourquoi une personnalité aussi importante dans le paysage politique français vient-elle ici, à Chicago, dans un pays dans lequel son nom ne suscite le plus souvent ni la colère ni le respect tant il n’est que rarement prononcé ?
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