Monthly Archives: May 2009

Expressions Borrowed from Latin…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: May 22, 2009

This week was hectic as usual! Alicia took her oral interaction test yesterday morning… she was led in the fourth part of the exam and less than 30 minutes after she had entered the exam room, she was calling me! If she were a beginner in French, it would worry me!… Well… this phenomenon is [...]

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Why to bother? It is only a leak after all…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: May 19, 2009

Yes… it is only a leak, yet a leak that will cost $1M to Canadian taxpayers… I am not sure they would be happy about this, provided that they would know of course. Unless someone lives in the Ottawa area, chances are they never heard about this leak… I actually did not!  Thanks to two [...]

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La Majusculite… une maladie incurable?

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: May 16, 2009

Once again, it is time for another test… Since my «mots croisés» were not very popular last week, I decided to find something interesting (if less challenging) based upon the model most of you enjoy. I believe Anglophones will have a tougher time working on this one than Francophones. Why? Only because in English upper [...]

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