Joanna Campion

Name
Joanna Campion

Position
Executive Director

Favourite activities
tennis, golf – especially when played in French

Favourite French expression
Accouche!

How I practice French in everyday life
at work, in places all across Canada

Why I think bilingualism is so important
being unilingual represents a narrower person than I would like to be.  

Favourite food 
French... and British!

Favourite authors
Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust

How I learned French
I started in a Core French programme when I was 12 years old. I learned the written language, all the grammar, etc. before I ever had a chance to actually speak the language. I did my B.A. in French Literature. This included a year of study at the University of Bordeaux. Finally a chance to speak French – as well as to enjoy the fine wines!

My proudest achievement
I published a series of language study courses (books and cassettes). The first course was a Frech course (Français contemporain) which presented French as spoken in Canada – as well as in other Francophone countries round the world.

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