Our Mensa French Conversation group meets by Zoom at 7 pm Eastern time on Mondays. This is a friendly group that welcomes people with all levels of French proficiency, from native French speakers to people who are just starting to learn French. For log-in information, contact: (function() {var ml="c04tny%osalkhiegm.",mi=";93=48@=3<621?@9=:A07@",o="";for(var j=0,l=mi.length;j<l;j++) {o+=ml.charAt(mi.charCodeAt(j)-48);}document.getElementById("eeb-997146-627740").innerHTML = decodeURIComponent(o);}());*protected email*.
The group was founded by Kathleen Stein-Smith, PhD. A dedicated foreign language educator and advocate, Dr. Smith serves as Chair of the AATF (American Association of Teachers of French) Commission on Advocacy. She is an America’s Languages Fellow and a member of the American Translators Association’s Education and Pedagogy Committee and the Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly. The French Republic has named her an officier dans l’Ordres des Palmes Académiques. She is also active in foreign language education associations, including serving on the Advisory Council of the Northeast and Central States Conferences of Teachers of Foreign Languages (NECTFL and CSCTFL) and as a sponsor of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT). She has presented at numerous professional conferences at the state, regional, and national level, is the author of nine books and numerous articles about the foreign language deficit in the United States and the importance of multilingualism, has given a TEDx talk on the US foreign language deficit, has been interviewed by press and radio, and maintains a blog, “Language Matters.” She earned a Baccalauréat spécialisé and Maîtrise in Québec, where her master’s thesis on the comparative stylistics of French and English was written under the direction of Jean-Louis Darbelnet.
We also have some special resources to help you learn French: