Anyone who has ever learned another language can tell you it's one thing to use it in the relative safety of a classroom with others at your level and a teacher to back you up and another entirely to try it out in a real world situation.

They'll also tell you that until you do get out of the classroom, you'll never be quite sure of your own abilities.

That's the idea behind the province's new Let's Go/Allons-y campaign and the reason why about 100 students from Fredericton and Saint John are descending on Kent County today.

Read the full article: http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/rss/article/1067881

The Let's Go/Allons-y website: http://www.gnb.ca/0000/LetsGo-Allonsy.asp

In this Montreal Gazette opinion piece, English Montreal School Board commissioner Julien Feldman argues that declining English-school enrolment could be arrested by better French instruction.

http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/little+French+Bill+real+threat/3066469/story.html

NOTE: While CPF posts items of interest on the website, this does not constitute an endorsement of the opinions or content therein. We do so in the interest of promoting French as a second language, and honest debate around the best ways to do so.

CBC Radio's "The Current" recently looked at the controversy surrounding Bill 104, which was struck down last year by the Supreme Court of Canada as unconstitutional. The Quebec government is currently looking at alternatives, which may or may not further restrict access to the English school system. Anna Maria Tremonti interviews Bernard Landry and Victor Goldbloom on the issue.

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/current_20100520_32667.mp3