Osgoode Hall Law School has had its own Francophone Society since January. We started with a tiny weekly conversation club last year even before officially registering with Legal and Lit. About ten or fifteen French language enthusiasts regularly pulled tables together in the inescapable Osgoode cafeteria and practiced French. We didn’t have a single native speaker among us but some of us spoke pretty good Français. That was our first year.
Come September, we would like to continue our conversation club. If you are in Osgoode in any capacity and speak French, why not bavarder avec nous? If you are a native speaker this is really your Society, and one of its goals is to raise the profile of the Francophone community in Osgoode.
We would also like to build relationships with the Francophone legal community in Toronto. There is a significant interest in the French language among law students as my experience with running the Francophone Society shows. Let’s network.
Drop me a line if you want to join the Society or would like more information: my first name @ my last name . org.
How on earth can you have a Francophone society without a single francophone?
I believe the word you’re looking for is francophile
OFS is for both Francophones and those who just speak French. One of its goals is to “raise the profile of the Francophone community in Osgoode”. The fact that it was founded by people who “just speak French” conflicts neither with this goal nor with the future participation of Francophones.