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9 Jan 2009
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Contest to encourage young people to use French

How would you encourage young people around you to use French? This is the question that the Centre de la francophonie des Amériques (CFA) is asking young people in the Americas, via its “Jeunesse francophone en action” contest. To answer the question, participants have to make a clip-length video describing a stimulating project for their community, educational institution or cultural milieu.
8 Jan 2009
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A Quebecer translates an Indian classic

On December 7, Québec Government Office in Mumbai, in association with Alliance Française, marked the publication of French-language translations of three short story collections and the classic novel Godan: Le don d’une vache [Godan: The Gift of a Cow] by Munshi Premchand (1880-1936), a giant of contemporary Indian literature. The works were translated from the Hindi by University of Sherbrooke Professor Fernand Ouellet.
6 Jan 2009
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Internship at the National Assembly on offer

In collaboration with the National Assembly of Québec, the International Association of Québec Studies (IAQS) is once again this year offering a student from outside Québec the opportunity to complete an internship in that institution. The goal of this internship is to allow a foreign student to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in his or her studies and improve his or her knowledge of Québec, its parliamentary institutions and its democratic practices.