This will be an online Zoom meeting. Please RSVP on our Meetup for this event to get access to the Zoom link. See our online meeting instructions at: https://torontooasis.org/online-meeting-instructions
Our program will run from 11 am to 12:30 pm and you can join in to the meeting starting at 10:45 am for our open social. Followed by an extended discussion for a half hour. Volunteers please join by 10:30 am.
Our featured speaker will be Elka Enola. As an anglophone, born in Montreal long before French was declared the official language of Quebec, Elka’s experiences learning, using and teaching French took some peculiar turns, not the least of which, was discovering that only Quebec calls their language ‘French’.
Elka was born in Montreal in 1941 where her first language was Yiddish, her second English and her third was French. Her grandfather, who lived with them, only spoke Yiddish, so, until his death, only Yiddish was spoken at home. Then she and her brother would speak in English while her mother and aunt continued in Yiddish. How Elka reached the place of fluency in French is quite a convoluted story that she will share.
Please RSVP on meetup:
https://www.meetup.com/Toronto-Oasis/events/cbgqgsyccjbrb/
Looking forward to seeing familiar faces and perhaps some new ones!
This meeting has been recorded:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BApWH5x9vCYtU9oTumxmf356cBNKwa1l/view?usp=sharing