Uneasy Rhetoric

For a couple years, I studied Welsh. You could say it was because I wanted to learn that funny language that inspired countless cut-rate fantasy writers to replace all of the i’s with y’s and use lots of w’s to make people and place names more exotic.
You’d be wrong. It’s a deeply poetic [...]

Some Foreign Service Institute language courses are now available online, free! From the site:
These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.
This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. It is an independent effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages. [...]

Bilingual? Need to write in a language with accent marks? Use Windows XP? Use the Language Bar and its ability to switch keyboard layouts on the fly.
MS-Word has keyboard shortcuts for characters such as é or ü ([ctrl]+ ‘ then e or [ctrl]+[shift]+ ‘ then u). However, not all programs respond to [...]

The Alliance Française de Sacramento is hosting a “Fête de Noël” next Saturday from 4pm to 6pm. The fete is $5 for non-members (members get in free).
If you’ve ever been curious about the AFdeSac, this would be a good opportunity to meet some of the folks who make it run and other folks, like [...]

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Originally uploaded by Urhet.

I have not purchased a new French-English/English-French dictionary since before I started college (in college, I bought a petite Larousse Dictionnaire de la langue francaise, but that isn’t an f-e/e-f dictionary). Since I’m taking advanced conversation courses now, and since I’m [...]