French Language Week ... Tell me ten words

French Language and La Francophonie Week

Organized every year around March 20, International Day of La Francophonie, the French Language and La Francophonie Week is the rendezvous of lovers of words in France as well as abroadIt offers the general public the opportunity to celebrate the French language by showing their attachment to it and celebrating its richness and modernity.

Share your love of words by organizing a concert of French songs, a dictation, a calligraphy workshop, a conference, a theatrical performance, an oratory joust, a poetry contest, a literary meeting, etc.

The thematic chosen this year is an invitation to pleasure and surprise: "Ҫa (d)astonishes!", a slogan to (re)discover the ability of words to create astonishment, to surprise us and have fun.

The Week is also an opportunity to value the multiple projects carried out within the framework of the French language awareness campaign ' Tell me ten words ».

Tell me Ten words... "that (d)astonish"

Ten words are proposed here, like so many invitations to travel, to reflection, to pleasure, to poetry: offbeat, divulge, dazzle, mind-blowing, stuffing, kaï, madness, pinch me, saperlipopette, tinamarre.

It is with pleasure and surprise that we invite you through "Ten Me Ten Words that (d)astonish!" , thread chosen to put a breathtaking disorder in our love of the French language.

The ability of words to create astonishment, even to overwhelm us - by their sound, their spelling, their crazy or mysterious character - is highlighted here. We enjoy pronouncing them, we try to write them, we are curious to know or deepen their meaning, their etymology.

This national operation, which meets the objectives of the Ministry of Culture in terms of arts and cultural education, aims to enable everyone to establish a relationship of trust and pleasure with the French language. This French language awareness campaign invites everyone to play and express themselves in a literary or artistic form from September to June.

You can follow throughout the year all the news "Tell me ten words..." on social networks facebook and twitter.

Need help to develop your projects? Feel free to use our resources.

Municipality or community of municipalities, get the «Partner City» label!

Promote the networking of three different actors (educational, social, cultural) around the operation «Tell me ten words». Through your actions, you contribute to strengthening the civic dimension, encouraging intergenerational dialogue and participating in the openness and cultural diversity of your municipality.
Get the label to improve your visibility, to benefit from the intervention of language experts, to have personalized support and to receive free communication materials, teaching tools and prizes.
To communicate about your projects, register them as achievements on the website dismoidixmots.culture.fr. You can also schedule your March events on the OpenAgenda platform of the Semaine de la langue française et de la Francophonie.

Who can preteto the label?

French cities, villages or intercommunalities (metropolis and overseas) who wish to:

• punctuate their cultural season with an annual meeting around the language, the French Language and La Francophonie Week  ;
• federate the structures of the city around an awareness campaign in French, Tell me ten words from September to June. A project that involves both educational (schools, colleges or high schools), social (associations to fight against illiteracy, federations of popular education) and cultural (theatres, libraries, museum).

This dynamic is an opportunity to include in the citizens' living space the actions carried out throughout the year in terms of language policy; the participating structures are then essential actors to highlight the French language in relation to their field of action. Finally, this operation is a way to strengthen social cohesion through convivial moments around the French language.

How to get the label?

The "VP" label is assigned for a year, municipalities that wish to fully invest in the operation by meeting certain requirements.