Sentences with phrase «french first language»

It also means that the more than seven million people in Canada who consider French their first language can not read an official version of their country's Constitution in their mother tongue.

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The chief content officer of Netflix nflx has just returned from France, where he joined CEO Reed Hastings and actor Gérard Depardieu for the premiere of Marseille, Netflix's first original French - language program.

My first language is french as you may have noticed.

He introduced himself and I found his first language was English, rather than French, which I actually prefer for whatever reason.

It was a real pleasure to host my first French workshop (my native language) with such a talented, passionate and inspiring lady.

Although I was born in the United States my first language was French.

French is not my first language.

For example, The Very Hungry Caterpillar and Friends First Word app allows you to choose English, Spanish, French, or German as a primary or secondary language.

This year has been a year of great independence — Tyler began first grade, joined the French Immersion Program that requires him to complete his homework independently, speaks a language that neither of his parents understand, runs around the neighborhood alone calling for friends, plays independently at home with his sibling and peers, and generally has a whole life at school and on the playing field that feels mostly separate from his father and me.

The first reason is sheer admiration for the English writing style of someone whose first language was Polish and whose second language was French.

Pupils whose first language is English achieved the most passes at grades A * - C in their GCSEs, with those of Nigerian background achieving close to the national average, whereas pupils whose first language was Somali, French or Portuguese performed worst in education.

Chairman Reda encouraged me to use my language skills to conduct the very first Tele Town Hall in Spanish and to go on a local Haitian TV program speaking in French.

If we mean a common first language, i.e. every country in Europe switching to English, French or, why not, a constructed language, that would be wildly unrealistic and incredibly oppressive.

Examiners all have at least a first university degree in science or engineering and work in the three official languages of the EPO: English, French, and German.

She believes her ability to speak a second language was a huge help in getting her first assignment, in French - speaking Morocco, through the Peace Corps.

I'm learning another language in the same way someone would be learning Braille or French for the first time.

This position will also help improve my level of German as I was born in the west part of Switzerland and my first language is French.

Pat P.s. First language is french.

French is my first language looking for some friends to play vidéo game, board games or d & d or watch some movie / anime.

Hi, my name is Jean - Luc, I live in Belgium, near the french border, so my first language is french;).

Jeunet, the imaginative French director behind such films as Amélie, Micmacs, and The City of Lost Children, turns to Reif Larsen's novel The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet as the source for only his second English - language feature (the first being Alien: Resurrection) and first shot in 3D.

In May of that year, the script was optioned by producer Nick Wechsler and announced as one of the first projects of his producing deal with French studio Gaumont, then looking to expand its English - language slate.

Anderson does appear, alongside Adam Sandler, Emily Watson (styled, oddly, just like her Punch - Drunk Love character), and Philip Seymour Hoffman, in two segments from Cannes 2002 (where Anderson won Best Director), the first a pretty pointless 7 - minute roundtable with a French - language interviewer, the second the official press conference, where the abovementioned talent is joined by producer Joanne Sellar, who is sadly if perhaps predictably all but ignored along with Watson.

She has starred in a number of French - language films in the years since, but this is the first to be released in the United States.

For his first film made outside his native country, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi unveils his latest exercise in domestic unrest with the French language The Past.

The traditional royalty slot of the 7 pm premiere on the first Saturday is reserved this time for French director Eva Husson's sophomore feature GIRLS OF THE SUN, while the first English - language competition film doesn't screen until the second half of the festival.

At first I questioned the decision to release the French horror flick, High Tension, in the United States dubbed instead of subtitled, as most foreign language films released here would be.

The Cannes Film Festival is opening with a Spanish - language film — a psychological thriller starring Penelope Cruz — the first time since 2004 that the star - studded event is kicking off with a movie that's not in English or French.

«The Lobster» is the director's first English language drama with just a smattering of French and will be appreciated by a sophisticated audience that can appreciate both a complex story and the scathing trashing of our rigidly conformist society.

Both the LA and NY groups chose «The Social Network» as best picture and «Carlos» as best (and most) foreign - language film — all five and a half hours and 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish (with a Venezuelan accent), various dialects of Arabic, Russian, Hungarian, Italian... LAFCA left no doubt about its esteem for both movies, with «Carlos» coming in as first runner - up for best picture and Fincher and Assayas sharing the director's prize.

A French director working with British actors and pre-WWI German setting could theoretically make a film that rises above Europudding mediocrity, but that potential goes unrealized by «A Promise,» Patrice Leconte's unpromising first foray into English - language filmmaking.

Esther Kahn, the first English - language film from French director Arnaud Desplechin, attributes great performances to an alchemy of approaches.

The Japanese writer - director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a whiz of indistinct scares, has a taste for creepy fairy tales; a modernized take on Charles Perrault's «Bluebeard» could have made an inspired choice for his first French - language project, but instead he offers up a dullish original in the form of Daguerrotype.

For those of us yet to make our first feature in our mother tongue, consider this Spanish film is Farhadi's 2nd non-Persian language outing (The Past, in French, was the other).

Perhaps something was lost in translation as this is the first English - language picture from director Deniz Gamze Erguven, who was Oscar - nominated for the terrific 2015 French - Turkish coming - of - age movie Mustang but here seems to be in way over her head.

But the innovative Japanese director (Pulse, Bright Future) has an earlier movie that's coming out first: 2016 French - language ghost story Daguerrotype.

Xavier Dolan, the French - Canadian director of such films as Mommy, Laurence Anyways and Tom at the Farm, is exploring such a correspondence with his first English - language feature, The Death and Life of John F. Donovan.

This ambitious black comedy is the first English - language film from Marjane Satrapi, the French - Iranian director of 2007's Oscar - nominated animation Persepolis.

La Vie en Rose is the first film to depict the breadth of that life, making the French - language film a sensation in its home country.

The programme will be Netflix's first French - language production, and is reportedly similar in theme to the company's other hit series, House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey.

Sure, Lincoln star Daniel Day - Lewis made history, becoming the first actor to win three leading Oscar trophies, and Austria could celebrate both Django Unchained co-star Christoph Waltz's second supporting actor Oscar in four years and the Foreign Film trophy for Austrian director Mikael Haneke and his French - language Amour.

After considering such directors as Danny Boyle (then hot off of «Trainspotting»), Bryan Singer, Peter Jackson and David Cronenberg (the mind reels as to what the latter might have done at the helm of an «Alien» film), the producers once again elected to go with an up - and - coming talent by selecting French filmmaker Jean - Pierre Jeunet, who had caused an international sensation with his visually stunning fantasies «Delicatessen» (1991) and «City of Lost Children» (1995), to make his first English - language film.

Players first began to speculate about it on the game's official forums after an administrator on the French - language forum stated that six - month subscriptions were done away with because they'd found players «preferred» the 30 and 90 - day options.

Curzon Artificial Eye French - language Blu - rays / DVDs (White Material, The Piano Teacher, Goodbye First Love, Father of my Children)

Many of these schools had higher proportions of students living in challenging circumstances: high poverty and low parent education, or high numbers of students whose first language was neither English nor French and who were struggling with academic language proficiency.

French is also not my first language, sorry about the mistakes... I've already found some!

Thought his quiz, the children will learn some interesting facts about France and the French language, from the height of the Eiffel Tower, through how many people live in French or how many countries have French as their first language.

Our students have access to rigorous dual immersion language programs in Spanish and French starting in first grade.

Schools sometimes use department chairs and lead teachers in interviews (I remember being interviewed by a French teacher when I applied for my first foreign - language teaching position).

Situated in Aroostook County on the St. Johns River that forms part of the U.S. - Canadian border, Madawaska's residents are deeply proud of their Acadian roots (French is the first language for many), which gives this small town a cultural affinity with its neighbors to the north.