Joseph Theriault's Blog (1)

I was updating my information, and I wrote this for "About Me" and decided this made a better blog post. I am the 3rd+ generation Franco-American: my aging mémère and her brothers and sisters can speak French, but don't; my father's first language was French, but he lost it in elementary school; and I never learned more than Frère Jacques, "comme-ci comme-ça" and "beaucoup" as a child. During High School I began to realize that things like tortière and gorton were not universal, but par… Continue