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  2. French in Action - Wikipedia

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    1987. (1987) –. 2016. (2016) French in Action is a French language course, developed by Professor Pierre Capretz of Yale University. The course includes workbooks, textbooks, and a 52-episode television series. The television series — the best-known aspect of the course — was produced in 1987 by WGBH, Yale University, and Wellesley ...

  3. To Be and to Have - Wikipedia

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    To Be and To Have (French: Être et avoir; also the UK title) is a 2002 French documentary film directed by Nicolas Philibert about a small rural school. It was screened as an "Out of Competition" film at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival [2] and achieved commercial success. [3] The film became the subject of an unsuccessful legal action by the ...

  4. America as Seen by a Frenchman - Wikipedia

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    Running time. 90 minutes. Country. France. Language. French. America as Seen by a Frenchman ( French: L'Amérique insolite) is a 1960 French documentary film directed by François Reichenbach. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. [ 1]

  5. America: The Story of Us - Wikipedia

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    Mankind: The Story of All of Us. America: The Story of Us (also internationally known as America: The Story of the U.S.) [2] is a 12-part, 9-hour documentary -drama television miniseries [3] that premiered on April 25, 2010, on History. [4] Produced by Nutopia, the program portrays more than 400 years of American history (with emphasis on how ...

  6. The Missing Picture - Wikipedia

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    The Missing Picture. The Missing Picture (French: L'Image manquante) is a 2013 Cambodian-French [4] documentary film directed by Rithy Panh about the Khmer Rouge regime and Cambodian genocide. [5] Approximately half of the film is news and documentary footage, while the other half uses clay figurines to dramatise the genocide's impact and ...

  7. French language in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States.Roughly 2.1 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at home in a federal 2010 estimate, [1] [2] making French the fourth most-spoken language in the nation behind English, Spanish, and Chinese (when Louisiana French, Haitian Creole and all other French dialects and French-derived creoles are ...

  8. Language education in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Language education in the United States has historically involved teaching English to immigrants; and Spanish, French, Latin, Italian or German to native English speakers. Bilingual education was sponsored in some districts, often continuously. Japanese language education in the United States increased following the Japanese post-war economic ...

  9. French literature - Wikipedia

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    The French language is a Romance language derived from Latin and heavily influenced principally by Celtic and Frankish. Beginning in the 11th century, literature written in medieval French was one of the oldest vernacular (non-Latin) literatures in western Europe and it became a key source of literary themes in the Middle Ages across the continent.