Eric Fortin, St. Mary´s College

The next Multilingual Cafe (OLE SIG) is scheduled for Wednesday January 25th, 2023 from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm and will be held online. – Eric Fortin, an Instructor of English and French as a Foreign Language at St. Mary’s College in Fukuoka, will present on the peculiarities of the pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of the French spoken in Quebec, Canada, as compared with standard European French. The OLE SIG wants to provide a space to meet and share using languages other than English, creating a community of practice. This is the Multilingual Café: meet and chat in your favorite language. The languages available depend on those attending on the day (for example French, German, Spanish, Thai, Hungarian, Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese and many more). After a short presentation we will meet in breakout rooms where different languages are used for further discussions. (Lingua Franca: English and Japanese) We meet online using zoom, please sign-up for receiving the zoom-credentials.