La Haine

Film NightFrench
Written By Sean Price

Tonight’s film comes from France.

La Haine (1995)

Whether you’re learning French or just looking for something to watch, La Haine is an important film. It focuses on police brutality and structural racism, issues that remain prevalent throughout the world, not least in France.

If you’re learning French, the following video is an important discussion of the current problems in France, and how the French establishment continues to deny that acts of violence are committed by the police against those who aren’t white. In this discussion, Mame-Fatou Niang makes the vital point that police violence against those who aren’t white is the tip of an iceberg - the rest of which, that which is not shown in the media and in public discourse, is the structural racism that people are faced with every day, such as barriers to finding lodging and employment :

À l’air libre (33) Violences policières, racisme : ‘Un puissant déni’

If you’re unsure when and how to use subtitles, advice can be found here :

How to Use Subtitles to Learn a Language

If you’re interested in learning French, there’s a How to Learn Languages guide :

How to Learn French

Take care, and enjoy the process!

Sean Price

This article was written by Sean Price, the Founder of How to Learn Languages.

When he's not teaching English as a foreign language, he creates eBooks and Courses that make learning languages affordable and enjoyable for anyone.

He learnt French in 2018 during a study abroad year at the Sorbonne, before completing a degree in History at the University of Leeds with First Class Honours in the summer of the following year.

During his final year, he taught himself Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Catalan, as part of dissertation research into fascism in Europe during the 1930s.

Although he says ‘learnt’ and ‘taught himself’ in the past tense, he also says one of the joys of learning a language is that there’s always more to learn.

More recently, he's been teaching himself German, Mandarin Chinese, and Russian.

Since moving to Vietnam to teach English in 2022, he's been enjoying learning Vietnamese. In less than one and a half years learning Vietnamese, he was able to achieve Level 5 (the highest being Level 6) of the official Vietnamese proficiency exam of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities at the National University, Hanoi (Trường Đại học Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn - Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội).

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