Do you know what the Russian expression « to play in the box » means? Do you know how the English and Spanish translate our the famous french idiom « when hens will have teeth »? And what if a Belgian tells you he is « blue of you »?

To all fans of graphic expressions, in French and foreign...

On 21st March 2019, Haitian writer Yanick Lahens launched the new "Francophone Worlds" professorship at the Collège de France with an inaugural lesson featuring the evocative title: “Urgence(s) d'écrire, rêve(s) d'habiter” (“The need to write, the dream of living”). A look back at this powerful...

On the occasion of the 2019 European Day of Languages, the Institut Français has created a multilingual Escape Game. Play on!

French teachers take pride of place. On 28 November 2019, French Teachers’ Day will bring together the different players in teaching French as a foreign language in a programme of meetings and workshops to take place all around the world. Conceived by the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron...

Preparations for the General Assembly on French-language Books Around the World are underway, with the event scheduled to be held in Tunis in September 2021. A website has been set up to support the General Assembly, which is a collaborative project by nature: all those involved in the Francophone...

Between 1st and 7th August 2019, a prestigious public speaking competition will be held in Chennai, capital of the Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Its theme will be the fight against inequality.

Every week, find a new episode of "La Francophonie chez toi", a version of the programme "Destination francophonie" launched by TV5Monde in April created for confinement.

The Dictionnaire des francophones (French speakers’ dictionary) is one of the emblematic measures of the French presidential plan for the French language and multilingualism unveiled in 2018. It is presented as part of French Language and Francophonie Week.

Successfully launched on 21 September last year, the #plusloin campaign, intended to encourage French language learning all over the world, is entering its 2nd stage from 15 February 2021.

With the "Ça va, ça va le monde!" cycle of readings, RFI is bringing authors based in Africa or Haiti who have not yet been published outside their own country to the Avignon Festival and its radio stations.

Tunis will host the General Assembly on French-Language books around the world on 23 and 24 September 2021. The General Assembly was announced in the Plan for the French language and multilingualism presented by the President of the Republic in March 2018, and forms one of the highlights of the 50th...

In order to show the richness of French-language literary creation, a corpus of literary works aimed at 15-25 year-olds was drawn up and presented as part of the General Assembly of French-language books Around the World, on 23 and 24 September in Tunis.

On the occasion of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (FPEU), the Institut français is offering French cultural network abroad and its partners a campaign promoting on social networks the learning of French and other languages. You can find all the reasons to learn foreign...

18 artists in residence at the Cité internationale des arts open the doors to their workshops. Coming from all over the world, they will share with the public their work in progress and their experiences of residency in France.

Around the world in 14 hours? It’s possible at the Cité Internationale des Arts! Embark on this new edition of the Traversées du Marais on 6th and 7th September 2019 and travel to the heart of workshops featuring all kinds of artists: photography, painting, sculpture, writing, music and performance...