Let’s Speak French is an informal group of people who meet at 6 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday of each month to converse in the French language and have fun. Organizer Jim Paquette said everyone is ...

Correction: An earlier edition of this story incorrectly spelled the name of a former French colony, and listed a country that is not in Africa. The French are a proud bunch, especially when it comes ...

Every Thursday evening, a group of about 10 students gathers at Houma's Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum with workbooks and hefty language dictionaries. They practice speaking to each other in local ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. Juliet and Lana attend École Pointe-au-Chien, a new public French immersion ...

Inside a small school down the bayou, southwest of New Orleans, two second-graders sit at a table covered with flash cards. In 2019, Louisiana's fourth graders ranked 50th in the country for reading.