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Being Bilingual: From South Africa to France With Love (part 2)
Being “perfectly bilingual” is a monolingual dream, illusion, deception… Bilingualism is not an absolute, an acquired state, a finite quantity. It is fluid and dynamic: like riding on sand dunes in...
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Being Bilingual…becoming bilingual
There are many routes to bilingualism, and individuals can develop their languages to varying degrees of native-level proficiency at any stage in their lives. It all depends on context and need....
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Being Bilingual … in my mother language (s)…
International Mother Language Day, celebrated on 21 February since 2000, is a linguistic carnival promoting the right of every child to speak and be educated in his or her mother tongue. Children are...
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Being bilingual … crossing language borders
2 Days in New York is a delicious comedy about cultural differences, mistranslations, and … lots of code-switching! Julie Delpy, Marion in the film, is stunning in the role of code-switcher: she...
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Paris is always a good idea #2
Paris, c’est la ville des promenades et des terrasses. Pour tous les étrangers, le charme de Paris réside dans ses innombrables ponts et ses ruelles aux plans illisibles et propices aux...
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Being Bilingual…Crossing Language Borders
Bilinguals are not always aware that they are code-switching – it is a natural, unconscious phenomenon Dad’s sixtieth birthday was celebrated at a Portuguese restaurant on his first visit to France....
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Being Bilingual…my monolingual holiday
It is the end of August and many families are making their way home after their annual summer holidays. Besides relaxing in the countryside or suntanning at the seaside, they have caught up with...
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Qu’est-ce qu’un «Clim’acteur»?
Julien Gée (© Shamengo) Le projet Challenge Europe rassemble des jeunes européens motivés, qui souhaitent avoir un impact sur le changement climatique. Vingt personnes dans chaque pays participant,...
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Ryan Gander at the Palais de Tokyo
The Palais du Tokyo, which plays host to a vibrant contemporary art scene in Paris especially after having recently exposed a formidable area of square meterage within its foundations, inaugurated...
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Being bilingual… the path to multilingualism
The latest adventures of Astérix and Obélix take our two favourite Gauls across the Channel to what was about to become the besieged island province of Britannia. The film, Asterix et Obelix au...
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Linking continents and opening minds
Susie Rodgers, Paralympic swimmer and triple bronze medallist at London 2012, writes about her visit to Paris where she celebrated the victory of pupils from the Collège Léon Jozeau Marigné in...
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LINDER : Femme/Objet at the Musée d’Art Moderne
Linder, Untitled work, 1979, at the Musée d’art moderne, Paris To celebrate International Women’s Day on the 8th of March last week, a group of staff from the British Council and the British Embassy...
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Active approaches to Film Education by J Monahan
In partnership with the city of Argenteuil, the British Council ran a series of Cinema workshops in English for secondary students in February 2013 with seven classes. The workshops were run with...
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Being bilingual…multilingual identities
Managing multilingual identities is like playing chess: you use your quick-thinking analytical skills to move between different coloured blocks, making deliberate decisions about who you are, who you...
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Ian Kiaer-Exposition personnelle au CIAP de Vassivière
Ian Kiaer A.R. petit théâtre 2013, CIEP Conditions… Cela pourrait être le filigrane qui court en transparence le long de l’exposition que le Centre International d’Art et du Paysage (CIAP) de l’île...
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Bringing Lightning to the Kids – My ‘Science in Schools’ Experience
In April 2013, I was invited to deliver a week of workshops for the British Council’s Science in Schools programme. The workshops took place across seven different...
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Festival Etonnants Voyageurs : an insider’s perspective
Ben McConnell blogged about his experiences at the Edinburgh World Writers’ Conference during the Festival Etonnants Voyageurs in Saint-Malo (20- 22 May 2013) For more than twenty...
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Returning to the Festival d’Avignon
Josie Daxter returns to the festival d’Avignon and gives us an insider’s view of what it is like to be a performer and then a spectator at this amazing event. In July 2012, I went to the Avignon...
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La saison du Royal Opera House live au cinéma a démarré
Nous avons eu la chance, une amie et moi-même, de pouvoir assister le 17 septembre 2013 à l’opéra Turandot, de Gacomo Puccini, dans la salle de cinéma de Brignais (69) près de Lyon. Le spectacle,...
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Being bilingual…The English Effect – Part 1
Being Bilingual – what does it mean? Multilingualism is a result of contextual factors where languages meet. These casual get-togethers, chance meetings, planned events invite a fascinating guest list...
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