Did you know that students who study another language for just one year score an average of 38 points higher on the SATs?

Join in the bilingual revolution and learn more about how the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the FACE foundation are supporting language immersion programs in public schools.

The Texas French Symposium is still looking for judges. If you are interested in helping the largest French language context in Texas, please contact the judge coordinator.

This year's contest will take place at Atascocita High School on the theme La côte d'Azur.

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the CLEMI (Centre de liaison de l'enseignement et des médias d'information) are offering a 6hour training course to teachers of French as a Foreign language at the University of Texas at El Paso on April 5 and at the Alliance Française de Dallas on April 7.

Theme: Teaching French through media: Where does information come from?

CPE credits can be granted. 25 particpants maximum on a first come first served basis. Please contact the Alliance française in El Paso and Alliance Française de Dallas for more information and to RSVP.

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the CIEP (Centre International d’Etudes Pédagogiques) are offering a 6h workshop to teachers of French as a Foreign language at the Alliance Française de Houston on May 4.

Theme: Developing verbal communication skills in class

CPE credits can be granted. 25 particpants maximum on a first come first served basis. Please contact the Cultural Service to RSVP before May 2nd 5PM.

The Institut Français, in close relationship with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, and the Fondation Alliance Française has launched a new campaign to promote French langage through cultural cooperation and French language learning. Et en plus, je parle français! takes a modern perspective on French and those who speak it, presenting the language as more than glamour and romanticism. Today, French is a language of employment, innovation, technology, and business around the world.

Speaking a different language—whether it’s your grandparents’ tongue or high-school Spanish—fundamentally changes the structure of your brain. Put a bunch of these malleable minds together in a company, and you create the potential for some truly original thinking.

Download and share this fun poster with your students and colleagues to show how learning a second (or third) language can make you smarter.

Immersion camps are the best investment to discover French or maintain acquired skills while having lots of fun in French. These day camps are the only ones in Houston led by French native camp director and counselors. For more information contact EFGH

The Albertine Prize is a reader's choice award for contemporary French fiction in English translation. We invite you to discover the 10 shortlisted novels that span the francophone world from France to Mauritius and Morocco and to vote before April 30 at albertine.com

The 2017 call for proposals from the Thomas Jefferson Fund is now open.  This new program, launched by the French Embassy in the United States and the FACE Foundation with the support of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research, aims to encourage and support cooperation among the most promising young French and American researchers, and foster forward-looking collaborative research projects.

DId you study or intern in France? Are you about to embark on a French adventure ? Be sure to join the France Alumni USA network and register on the platform via the link below!

France Alumni USA will give you access to many opportunities:
- job and internship offers in both the US and France
- special events organized throughout the US
- a directory of alumni who studied in France
- discussion groups

Prolong the Mois de la Francophonie and enjoy these French films at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art!

Irma Vep by Olivier Assayas

Personal Shopper by Olivier Assayas

Frantz by François Ozon

The Death of Louis XIV by Albert Serra

Cézanne et Moi by Danièle Thompson

A haunting tale of love and reconciliation begins in a small town in Germany in the immediate aftermath of World War I when a young woman mourning the death of her fiancé encounters a mysterious Frenchman laying flowers on her beloved’s grave.