Carambolages dans les rues de Beaune

Language is the guide's indispensable tool.
What about when the audience isn't French-speaking?
What is it like for the guide in - or rather between - two languages, for example French and German? They have to translate not just a language, but also a culture.
But are France and Germany really separated by two languages and two cultures?

Karoline Knoth, your guide, is French with German roots. Between the Hôtel Dieu and the ramparts, she'll show you the town of Beaune and some amusing and surprising aspects of the life of a bilingual French-German guide.

Your discovery of the town of Beaune becomes at the same time a journey through the shared history of two European countries and the often intertwined history of their languages. Words have a life of their own, and they love travelling from one country to another and discovering new contexts just as much as we do.
So meet old acquaintances in surprising places and false friends just about everywhere.
Above all, discover the sometimes surprising secret migration of words and expressions between two, sometimes even three, countries.

Open to all, knowledge of German is not necessary to follow the tour, but can help to make it even more fun.

This tour is particularly suitable for schoolchildren and other German language learners. They'll discover a new and fun way to familiarise themselves with their subject of study. And for anyone who loves history, the history of languages and Burgundy.

This tour is, of course, available in French AND German.
More info: www. knoth-bourgogne.fr

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