Sécher les cours - roughly pronounced sesh-ay lay kor - translates precisely as ‘to dry the classes’, which is nonsensical.

Moreira and his wife enrolled in government-funded French courses and his children started attending French school. Their plan was to study hard to get to Level 7 on the Canadian Language ...

Also on trial is Abdelhakim Sefrioui, a 65-year-old French-Moroccan Islamist activist ... "I told her I had been in class and that I wasn't happy with what went on there and that the teacher ...

The challenge was living in French. "It was so hard. But people here helped me and corrected me," he says. Moreira and his wife enrolled in government-funded French courses and his children started ...