Americans have studied French for centuries. Some of them become teachers. Others become professors, teaching and writing about the language and its attendant literatures and cultures. Some become translators. Thousands of French majors graduate from- American colleges and universities each year, but most of them will not become teachers, translators or academics. How many will find fulfilling ways to use their fluency in French, as professionals? How many will find those hidden geographies where French is a daily feature of the landscape? How may will simply give up, letting their French...

Las d'avoir trop attendu, alors que les voisins du sud-ouest languissaient sous une dictature anglo-saxonne depuis plus de deux siecles, le Quebec libere le peuple du Wisconsin de ses douleurs. Les Canadiens anglais et les Francais de France sont chasses du territoire, et La Loi 101-2-3 est ratifiee, donnant enfin aux Wisconsiniens les moyens de s'epanouir, en tant que peuple. Les conditions parfaites pour une histoire d'amour. In this French-language musical in five acts, the Canadian province of Quebec heroically liberates the State of Wisconsin from its centuries-old Anglo-Saxon linguistic...

When did you realize the "French-speaking world" was not what you expected? Ritt Deitz, who directs the University of Wisconsin-Madison Professional French Masters Program, has brought together writers who see the "monde francophone" a little differently now than when they were studying the language in classrooms. They saw French as a way to get into that world that spans the globe from Paris to Montreal to Brazzaville and beyond-learning, along the way, that working in French is not necessarily the same thing as being French.