2024/4/3

On Saturday, March 23, Associate Professor Laura Aries and two students from KUFS participated in the Festival de la Francophonie dans le Kansai 2024 à Kobe, held at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art.

Many high school students currently studying French, members from the embassies of French-speaking countries in Japan, and others came to the festival. Maya Inoue from the Department of French Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, KUFS and Lee Harim from the Department of Global Studies, Faculty of Global Engagement, KUFS presented in French in front of a large audience, discussing their personal experiences while studying abroad in France. Their brave presentations in fluent French earned them enthusiastic applause from the audience. The presenters received commemorative gifts from His Excellency Mr. Antoine Evrard, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Belgium, and Olivier Douhéret of the Walloon Regional Government in Belgium.

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