Francophonie festival begins in major Bangladesh cities Friday

The annual Francophonie festival is beginning on Friday in Dhaka and Chittagong. 

Senior Correspondentbdnews24.com
Published : 10 March 2016, 07:29 PM
Updated : 10 March 2016, 07:29 PM

Every year, one month after the “Ekushey February”, the Francophone community celebrates and promotes worldwide the use of the French language as well as cultural and linguistic diversity.
 
The Francophone diplomatic missions in Bangladesh, together with Alliances françaises, in Dhaka and Chittagong, are set to offer a rich programme of activities from March 11 to 20, the French embassy says.
 
Alliance Française de Dhaka has drawn up a week-long programme of events such as “pétanque” competition, national finale of LabCitoyen (speech contest), cooking competition, Francophonie Short Film Festival 2016, visit to Liberation War Museum operated in French language, and translation competition.
 
A talk on “Preservation and Promotion of Mother Language” will be organised at the Dhaka University’s Institute of Modern Languages on Mar 16.
 
This will be followed by a seminar on “Trade between Bangladesh and Francophonie countries” on Mar 20.
 
French language is spoken by 220 million of individuals worldwide, and it is the official language of 32 countries.
 
The Francophonie missions present in Dhaka are the High Commission of Canada, and the embassies of Egypt, Switzerland, France, Vietnam, Morocco and Qatar.