/news/2023/05/19/an-honors-thesis-creates-a-french-connection-between-martha-coleman-23-and-herb-saucier/ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 18:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 /news/2023/05/19/an-honors-thesis-creates-a-french-connection-between-martha-coleman-23-and-herb-saucier/#comment-264150 Tue, 23 May 2023 14:16:35 +0000 /news/?p=153750#comment-264150 I enjoyed reading this article because of my own experience as a Franco American. I was born in 1946 at St Mary’s in Lewiston, Me. Two years later we moved to Fort Kent, Me. where it was predominantly a French speaking community. My parents both spoke French in the home, and when I started kindergarten all my peers also spoke French. However, we were not allowed to speak it at school. They thought it would hamper our chances of learning English which was thought to be the language of success. I loved my maternal language and ended up teaching it in a small school in Northern ME. in the early 70’s. Most of my students spoke French at that time. However, when I retired in 2000, very few students could speak French. There were too many English influences in their daily lives. It’s really sad, because French is such a beautiful language.

]]> /news/2023/05/19/an-honors-thesis-creates-a-french-connection-between-martha-coleman-23-and-herb-saucier/#comment-264147 Sat, 20 May 2023 01:04:46 +0000 /news/?p=153750#comment-264147 Very interesting I was brought up in z Lewiston studied French for 8 yrs I don’t use it now . Taught me kids French colors numbers only . I live in MI highly populated Arabic population, learning that Lebanese learn French in school and I used my broken French on vacation I in Morocco

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