Alliance Française d'Indianapolis

Hello Monday! Here’s to small steps and great achievements!

Just a quick note to say you’re doing great. You’ve held it together from January and the holidays are in sight! Small wins, great achievements.

Article from IndyStar: from Chriskindlmarkt to winter lights, theatre and more, click to discover 15 great things to do with kids around Indianapolis this season: https://eu.indystar.com/story/entertainment/2022/12/05/christmas-2022-events-near-me-15-things-to-do-around-indianapolis/69685090007/

Family fun for the holidays: 15 things to do with kids around Indianapolis this season What to do with friends and family this holiday season

, everyone! Here's to family who feel like friends, and friends who have become family.

Here’s to a new week filled with possibilities!
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”
— Francis of Assisi.

🇺🇸 Impossible is not a French word.
🇫🇷 Impossible n’est pas Français.

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde
Whatever you’re doing, whatever you’re reading, however you’re chilling…enjoy the weekend!

“They say ‘do what makes you happy’ so I bought a ticket to Indianapolis”

Celebrating our pride and love for the Hoosier State! Celebrated annually on November 16th, the National Indiana Day is dedicated to honoring the union of Indiana to the United States of America.

🇫🇷 Il ne faut rien laisser au hasard
🇺🇸 Leave nothing to chance.
✨ Prepare for the worst but hope for the best. With a little planning, a little research and a little luck comes success. Here’s to an amazing week ahead!

Félicitations, vous avez réussi !
Congratulations, you made it!

French Embassy in the U.S. introduces La Dictée des Francophones: a classroom activity that will challenge students with three texts composed of various dialects illustrating the Francophonie, written by Julien Soulié (from Le Projet Voltaire) and read by Ibrahim Maalouf, Franco-Lebanese jazz player!

The three idiomatic text correspond to three levels of French learners (elementary, intermediate, advanced) and aim to highlight the diversity of French language. Teaching materials will be provided with the text to aid with any and all lesson planning!

Each text will be recorded and available through private access, to give teachers the option to conduct the Dictée at their convenience. The Dictée will be held in November, for the National French Week and the Francophonie Summit taking place in Djerba at the same time. Throughout the month of November, all French teachers in the US are be invited to take part! To access the material, hop over to: https://bit.ly/3MuRnuh

AND...all participating teachers will be offered a one-year subscription to France Channel and the chance to participate in a GIVEAWAY. To win a prize pack, simply share a photo of your take on the Dictée with the hashtag .

Last year, more than 18 000 participants joined the event–Can we break this record?

A big thank you to sponsors: , , , and the Embassy of Tunisia!

This insightful idiom loosely means you can’t judge a book by its cover or, differently phrased, appearances can be deceiving.

Have a great Monday, and don’t forget: everyone you meet might be going through something, so don’t judge a book by its cover!

Pierre Soulages, leading French abstract painter, has died at 102. The painter, printmaker, and sculptor was renowned for his love of the colour black, and spent a lifetime exploring its shades and the light within it.
"I love the authority of black, its severity, its obviousness, its radicalism," he once declared.
The masterful artist will be missed.