French actress Emmanuelle Riva is nominated for an Academy Award for her role as an elderly musician who’s suffered a debilitating stroke in Michael Haneke’s Amour. She had her first feature film role ...

An official French Girl trailer has been released by Paramount, previewing the Zach Braff and Vanessa Hudgens-led romantic comedy. The film is set to release in theaters on Friday, March 15 and ...

French has the reputation of being a monocentric language, in contradistinction to languages such as English and Spanish, which are polycentric (i.e., they have several standard varieties). Throughout ...

A new French translation of the Bible with a distinctly Québécois flavour employs plenty of literary and poetic licence to bring a contemporary feel to the work, but promises to retain the beauty and ...

What keeps Vermonters from venturing to Québec more often? Whether they admit it or not, for most Anglophones, it’s the official language of: French, aka français — and not the kind you learned in ...

Quebecois French has long been mocked for its rough-and-tumble sound, but this version of French is more likely what 17th-Century French aristocracy spoke – including the king. It was a perfect ...