Linguae Europaeae

by Ann Abbott Ann Abbott  is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and an Associate Professor of  Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese  as well as an  Affiliated Faculty of  Latin American and Caribbean Studies  at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Her work focuses on student learning outcomes in as well as critical analysis of foreign language community service learning, social entrepreneurship, social media and languages for specific purposes. This summer, the European Union Center was pleased to co-sponsor the 5th Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World (June 10-August 3, 2013) in collaboration with  The Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in collaboration with the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies , Center for African Studies , CIBER , Center for Global Studies , and REEEC . The Foreign Languages Building at UIUC Image Source Spanish doesn't need to w...

by Morgan Hollie, edited by Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec Morgan Hollie was a Global Studies major at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, majoring in Biology and minoring in French, when she wrote this blog entry in the EUC sponsored ‘Language and Minorities in Europe’ course in the spring of 2013. Zsuzsanna Fagyal-Le Mentec is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Image Source      “Maghrebi Arabic refers to the languages spoken in France by people whose family  originates in the Maghreb," writes Dominique Caubet , Professor at INALCO in Paris, in a 2004  paper (reference below). In other words: it is a type of Arabic spoken in France by immigrants  and their descents that are originally from a region of Africa, called Maghreb (see the following  map). Rather than calling it an immigrant language, however, the famous report The Languages  of France , compiled for the French government by ...

by Audrey Thompson Audrey Thompson is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, majoring in French and Political Science. She wrote this blog entry on the Briton nationalist movement and the Briton language in France in the EUC sponsored ‘Language and Minorities in Europe’ (FR 418) course in the spring of 2013. L'Armée Révolutionnaire Bretonne : Il y a toujours des citoyens d'aujourd'hui qui croient que la Bretagne devrait être indépendante de la France et que la langue bretonne devraient être autorisés à refleurir dans la société. Il y a beaucoup de groupes avec cet objectif - comme l'Armée Révolutionnaire Bretonne. Ce groupe a été fondé en 1971 sous la section armée du Front de Libération Breton - un groupe politique non violent avec l'objectif de libérer la Bretagne de la France (Breton Revolutionary Army). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_nationalism Une partie de leur manifeste stipule que « notre combat...