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April 2020
#164
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Like
all the families and communities to whom we belong the Alliance
Française family finds our daily routine in temporary suspension for
the wider public good. Slowing the insidious spread of a
highly
infectious virus is a personal imperative and a civic
responsibility. We are reminded at a time like this of our
common
humanity, our shared vulnerability and our strength through solidarity.
On behalf of our board I wish to pay tribute to our Director and all
our staff for their rapid and effective transition from
their regular to a virtual work environment. This permits us to
maintain contact online with those of you, our esteemed patrons, who
have the technical means and the desire to continue with your language
studies and to access our extensive digital library resources. This
virtual community for us is a new expression of the togetherness that
binds us to each other. I thank all of you for your continued support.
Stay safe and well and may our loved ones and we each find a safe
passage through the eye of this raging viral storm.
Pat Cox, President of the Board of
Directors, Alliance Française
Dublin, board@alliance-francaise.ie
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French
Courses |
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Alliance
Française Dublin may be closed until further notice but you
can still
avail of
its award-winning courses. We have teamed up with one of the finest
Learning Management Systems, the French
e-learning platform Apolearn,
which not only allows
for creation and administration of a full training program but also
provides a
Virtual
Classroom using the technology of another world-class platform, the
videoconferencing service Zoom.
It
will be business as usual and
with the same dedicated team!
Online group classes will start from April 20th, with registration and
assessment for new students
available from March 30th. Whether you are
interested in group classes / private tuition for
yourself, or looking for learning activities for your children, drop us
a line us at info@alliance-francaise.ie.
You only need an internet connection, a smartphone or a computer with a
camera. The interface is user friendly and we are here to walk you
through everything! |
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| Group Courses for Adults |
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Group Courses for Teenagers |
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Starting
April 20th
6-week term |
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These courses are
designed to complement
Secondary School programmes.
They
provide a diversification
and broadening
of the language in an interactive way. Teachers
focus on interests and topics relevant to the participants as well as
the
requirements of the syllabus.
The
Alliance Française employs and trains the best native
French teachers in Ireland. We take no more
than 15 students
per group to
ensure the best
learning experience for
all.
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| Private Tuition for all ages |
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Corporate Tuition |
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anytime |
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We
provide tailor-made
online courses on a one-to-one
basis, for all occasions: professional and academic needs,
job
interviews,
preparation
to exams, business
French,
personal purposes... or just to escape
boredom!
Regular
language and conversation classes can also be arranged
for all ages: Adults,
teenagers,
children
and even toddlers
and their parents!
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anytime |
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Our online
training for professionals, for one individual or small
groups, is tailor-made
to match your organisation’s objective and adapt to the specificity of your
business.
Any
subject and special field can be covered in our
tuition including French
business culture, with practical
situations like formal conversation and emails,
conferences, meetings or interviews.
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| Cultural Activities |
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Française Dublin is
closed and all our French
Cultural Programme is cancelled
until
further notice. But who says you can't go out when there are so many
services on the Internet that will whisk you away to different places?
Here is a short
selection of some of our favourite platforms and curated links for free
reading, watching, listening, exploring, dreaming with the French
culture
to escape the confinement! Ou
comment s'en sortir sans sortir. |
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TV / Series |
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Reading in French
on Culturethèque |
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French TV and Series
on Madelen |
We are delighted to offer
you all the digital library Culturethèque free of charge until May 30th!
The revolutionary
online platform developed by Institut
Français is accessible 24/7, anywhere from any digital
device,
and offers over
150,000
online French titles including magazines, newspapers, books, audiobooks, comics & graphic novels, learning modules and so much more!
Our Selection: The
French Library team has curated special collections for you : "Stay At Home" Top Picks // New
Novels // Crime Fiction // Children's Corner
with books, magazines & recordings // Rentrée Littéraire et Prix 2019 //
New Audio Books 2020 // Gastronomy Magazines and many
other selections by theme, age, interests and level in the French
Language.
Contact the
Library
to set up your free account.
This service is free for 2 months
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The Institut National de
l'Audiovisuel (INA), the repository of all
French audiovisual archives, has created the streaming platform Madelen
featuring +130,000 TV
programmes, series,
fiction,
performances
and documentaries!
Our Selection: Cult TV Series Belphégor, Fantômas, Les Rois Maudits, Les
Cinq Dernières Minutes, Aux frontières du possible, Noires
sont les galaxies, La Brigade des maléfices // Cult TV programmes Chorus
(live music), Strip tease (society), Droit de réponse (politics), Bouillon
de culture (culture), Alain
Decaux raconte (History), Les
Dossiers de l'écran (society) // Animated series Les Shadoks, Le Roman de Renart and a special Festival du film d'animation d'Annecy
retrospective // Iconic
Theatre adaptations Oh
les beaux jours, Dom Juan, and a whole La Comédie Française season.
This service is free for 3 months
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Music |
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Virtual Tours of
French Museums |
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French Music
on Deezer |
France has many of the most significant art collections
in the world with museums
attracting millions every year. Nowadays you can very easily access
these paintings and artefacts online!
Our
Selection: Immersive Virtual Tours
of some of the greatest museums in the world: Louvre,
Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie, Palais de Versailles, Musée du quai Branly, Opéra National de Paris; and one
of the oldest: les Grottes de Lascaux! // Online Collections
at Centre Pompidou, Musées
de la ville de Paris, Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, Musée des Abattoirs de Toulouse, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris //
Many museums and cultural institutions are also organising live tours & activities
on their social networks, check out the #CultureChezNous
initiative created by the French
Ministry of Culture for more information!
These services are free
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Deezer
is the French
Spotify where you can find a much more diverse music from
France and all the French-speaking areas around the world.
Our
Selection: 60's pop dubbed "yéyé",
inluding Serge
Gainsbourg, Jacques
Dutronc, Françoise
Hardy, France
Gall, Polnareff,
Claude
François and Dalida
// 19th Century
Impressionist Classical music including Claude
Debussy, Maurice
Ravel, Érik
Satie, Camille
Saint-Saëns, Jules
Massenet, Gabriel
Fauré and Paul
Dukas // Electronic
Music including Daft
Punk, Jean-Michel
Jarre, Justice,
Cerrone,
Air,
Saint
Germain, Laurent
Garnier, Yuksek,
Mr
Oizo and Fakear
// Current sensations
like Angèle,
Christine
and the Queens, Feu!
Chatteron, Clara
Luciani, Petit
Biscuit and Nekfeu.
This service is free for 3 months
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| Performances |
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Tourism |
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French Concerts and
Shows on Youtube |
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Visit French
Landmarks with Google |
Going to a show is
certainly what we'll miss the most during this confinement time. With Youtube
you can immerse yourself in an infinity of live
performances!
Our Selection: The excellent Concerts à emporter organised
by La
Blogotheque // full concerts for all
tastes, Daft Punk, Stromae, Serge Gainsbourg, NTM, Indochine, Jacqueline Dupré, Alain Bashung, Édith Piaf, Christine and the Queens and have
you seen the Orchestre National de France performing
Ravel's Boléro through video conferencing? // Full plays like Art,
Le Père Noël est une ordure, 8 Femmes, Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac, Molière's L'Avare, and Jean Anouilh's Antigone // Stand-Up comedy by Gad Elmaleh, Kyan
Khojandi, Professeur Rollin, and many more!
This service is free |
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Online globetrotting is
the new tourism! There is no reason why this confinement should
prevent you from exploring
cities and landscapes. With Goggle tools such as Street View, Earth,
and Arts
& Culture, the world is at your fingertips!
Our Selection: Visit French landmarks and get
inside La Tour Eiffel, Le Mont St Michel, Le Château de Chambord, L'Opéra National de Paris, Le Château de Fontainebeau // Go
for a refreshing walk on the Falaises d'Etretat, les Jardins du Palais de Versailles, the lavender fields of Provence, or l'Ile de la Pietra in Corsica // Go on a casual stroll in one
of France's biggest cities
and get
lost in the streets of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Nantes // take a boat trip around Nice // or even
take the Mont Blanc hiking trail!
This service is free
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