tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post4740160821622534074..comments2024-03-16T06:23:29.917-07:00Comments on The Reverberate Hills; or The Apotheosis of the Narwhal: Poem of the Week 2015/38Patrick J. Vazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post-58569065990653074572015-09-21T21:07:16.677-07:002015-09-21T21:07:16.677-07:00That is extremely interesting! And I know that Ta-...That is extremely interesting! And I know that Ta-Nehisi Coates has written several interesting articles for The Atlantic about learning French, so there does seem to be a continuing relationship between the cultures.Patrick J. Vazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09279528648512493917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22361479.post-35015556019633410872015-09-21T20:37:44.538-07:002015-09-21T20:37:44.538-07:00I took a Conversational French 101A course for a y...I took a Conversational French 101A course for a year at SF City College years ago with a marvelous young teacher from Paris who had a PhD in linguistics but was needing to pay the rent in San Francisco. She and a few other teachers started a series of monthly house parties where students could drink French wine and try to spend a whole evening speaking nothing but the foreign language with each other. (Just about all of us cheated.) One of the most fascinating details was that half the students were black, which confirmed for me that France and its culture has had a lasting connection with educated black American culture to this day.Civic Centerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12362422142667230626noreply@blogger.com