Category Archives: french culture

A Language Barrier or… Cultural Differences?

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: June 28, 2009

Last night, I went to the movies with Alicia… the two of us are avid fans of  made in Québec films and we wanted to see «J’ai tué ma mère»… a movie that was nominated for five categories at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It actually received the Art Cinema Award, the Regards Jeunes Prize and [...]

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An Aberration?… Je ne vous le fais pas dire!!!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: June 3, 2009

Today I had planned to publish another «jeu linguistique», yet something happened and I cannot wait until the weekend to share this story with you… Actually this story is almost unbelievable! Useless to say that it gives another dimension to the SLE testing process within the Public Service of Canada. Fasten your seat belts because [...]

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Is it a 100% Failure?… Or is there Hope?

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: May 25, 2009

Last week, there was a long series of articles in The Ottawa Citizen triggered by the discovery of  a leak regarding reading comprehension and written expression tests in the Public Service of Canada. Of course, when something like this happens, it brings back an old debate to the surface: policies on the two official languages in [...]

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