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The 25 best summer breaks to the mountains

The Times/The Sunday Times 28 May 2022

Squirrelled away in the Italian Dolomites, Alta Badia is one of the last bastions of the Ladin people — and for a taste of their ancient language you can now meet some of ... Next, plunge into the Val Maira — a place remote and secluded enough to have preserved the Occitan language.

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‘Goya, Carriere and the Ghost of Bunuel,’ Broken Down by Director Jose Luis Lopez Linares (EXCLUSIVE)

Variety 20 May 2022

... song in Occitan, the language of Provence, where he came from.

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Of thavils and troubadours

The Times of India 01 Apr 2022

Chennai ... They will perform the poetry and music of the Troubadours — singers, princes, and poets who wrote and composed in the Occitan language in the South of France in the 12th century ... Looking for Something? ... .

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Letters to the editor

Economist 26 Feb 2022

This was something else.\nMADELEINE CôTE\nGatineau, Canada\n\nProcessing language\nJohnson’s column on losing native languages was outstanding (January 29th) ... His native Occitan was unaffected.\nSuch clinical findings offer a fascinating window into the way our brains process language.

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Jean-Daniel Broussé: (le) Pain review – baker’s son gets a rise in this playful, affecting mime

The Observer 23 Jan 2022

The title of Jean-Daniel Broussé’s solo show is a pun on the French word for bread and, of course, the English word for suffering ... JD comes from a line of bakers ... We are introduced to the area where JD grew up, its dances and customs (he delivers a tale in the regional language Occitan to his own bagpipe accompaniment) ... The bread tastes good ... .

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Why Is France So Afraid of God?

The Atlantic 22 Nov 2021

The setting was grand. the French Senate, a chamber as elegant as an opera house ... “This is our battle ... [ Read ... It’s very open and very closed.” In your private life, you can cultivate your culture, your language, your religion; in public, you assimilate ... Regional languages—Breton, Occitan—were quashed in favor of an officially constructed French.

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Book Bag: ‘Voices in the Mist’ by Susanne Dunlap; ‘Maasai: A Novel of Love, War, and ...

The Recorder 28 Oct 2021

Voices in the Mist. by Susanne Dunlap;. Bellastoria Press ... Those two books are part of a trilogy, “The Orphans of Tolosa,” that explores the early 13th century in what is now southwestern France, but then was a largely independent land known as Languedoc (also called The Midi), where the most common language was Occitan, somewhat related to Catalan ... .

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A valley of breathtaking beauty where one can still hear the language of the troubadours

Catalan News 20 Aug 2021

History and language ... In the Middle Ages, when vulgar Latin was morphing into different Romance languages, the Vall d’Aran saw the emergence of Occitan, which covered the southern third of France and bits of Italy ... "It is the great literary phenomenon of European history," says Jusep Lois Sans, the president of the Occitan Language Academy.

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PODCAST: Val d'Aran – the Pyrenean valley with a distinct history, culture and language

Catalan News 20 Aug 2021

On the northern side of the Pyrenees, surrounded by high mountain peaks, lies the beautiful Val d'Aran, the Aran valley. Its geographic isolation has helped foster and protect its distinct culture, including the Aranese language, a dialect of Occitan ...   ... .

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Jazz Alive brings concerts series to Festival Hall

The Star Democrat 29 May 2021

The group features vocalist Alexis Tantau who sings in her native Occitan language as well as songs in French and English by Edith Piaf, Eartha Kitt, Charles Trenet, Maxine Sullivan, Jacques Dutronc, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, and Henri Salvador.Occitan is an official language of the Catalonia region of Europe. The series continues Aug ... 18 ... .

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Rockfort! French Music For May Reviewed By David McKenna

The Quietus 18 May 2021

... of the larger southeast-central Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region since 2016), where his mother was born, and employing the Occitan language, he also seeks connections, and lively frictions, with musique concrète, dub trickery, North African and Middle Eastern musics, rap and techno.

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Rockfort! French Music For March Reviewed By David McKenna

The Quietus 16 Mar 2021

Mingus’ own vocals are absent and in their place is a profusion of sampled speaking and singing voices, chopped and looped, in various languages including French, Occitan, Hindi and Pygmy.

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'Harry Potter' series receives official Yiddish translation

The Jerusalem Post 07 Feb 2020

The books of the Harry Potter series are some of the most popular books in history, and have been translated into every language from Spanish and Greek to less common languages like Faroese and Occitan ... However, as is often the case, names do not always translate well into other languages.

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If Kosovo, Albania & Macedonia are considered for EU membership, why not independent Scotland & ...

Russia Today 12 Dec 2019

The EU can be prosperous even if it comprises of scores of small independent nations, says fugitive former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont. If the number of members was an issue, the EU would not accept new ones, he adds ... Voices opposing Catalan independence came not only from Madrid, but also Brussels ... They are Occitan, they have their own language.

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Who Is Rosalía, the Spanish Singer Who Burned Up the 2019 MTV VMAs Stage?

Yahoo Music 27 Aug 2019

Rosalía took the stage by storm — and surprise — at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, performing hits including “A Ningún Hombre (Cap.11 ... Who is the breakout performer? Here are five things to know ... 1 ... “the bad want” or “the bad desire”) was inspired by the 13th-century novel Flamenca, written by an anonymous author in the Romance language of Occitan ... .