Audience: All Intermediate and Advanced Levels
Upcoming Sessions: More sessions TBA
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Mélanie Morin
Please register for workshops using our webform. Register early as space is limited.
This workshop provides a comprehensive overview of French prepositions, covering their use with nouns and verbs, common expressions, frequent errors made by English speakers, and special cases such as double-construction verbs and geographical names.
- What is a preposition?
- The preposition à
- Used with nouns & verbs
- Common expressions with à
- The preposition de
- Used with nouns & verbs
- Common expressions with de
- Verbs with double construction (penser à / penser de)
- Common preposition mistakes for English speakers
- Other common prepositions
- Simple prepositions (avec, sans, en, dans, sur, sous, entre, pour, par, etc.)
- Compound prepositions (à cause de, à partir de, en face de, par rapport à, etc.)
- Prepositions with geographical names
Audience: Advanced Levels Only
Upcoming Sessions: More sessions TBA
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Mélanie Morin
Please register for workshops using our webform. Register early as space is limited.
This workshop explores the different types of anglicisms in French, their social impacts, and strategies to recognize and avoid them, with examples, classifications, and supporting resources.
- What are anglicisms?
- Social impacts of anglicisms
- Lexical anglicisms
- Loan translations (calques)
- Semantic anglicisms
- Syntactic anglicisms
- Graphical anglicisms
- Morphological anglicisms
- Phonetic anglicisms
- Other anglicisms
- Hybrid anglicisms
- Pseudo-anglicisms
- Conclusion and list of resources
Audience: All Intermediate and Advanced Levels
Upcoming Sessions: Friday, February 6th, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Mélanie Morin
Please register for workshops using our webform. Register early as space is limited.
This introductory workshop equips participants with essential French medical vocabulary, focusing on key systems, conditions, and communication skills for healthcare contexts.
Basic Medical Terminology
- Root words - body organs
- Common prefixes, suffixes
- Root words for directions, tumours and colours
- Signs and symptoms
- Abbreviations and acronyms
Respiratory System Terminology
- Organs
- Functions
- Related terms
- Diseases
- Procedures
Cancer Terminology
- Common types of cancer
- General cancer terminology
- Staging terminology
- Grading terminology
- Testing and diagnosis terminology
- Related terms
- Treatment terminology
Audience: Advanced Levels Only
Upcoming Sessions: Friday, February 20th, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Mélanie Morin
Please register for workshops using our webform. Register early as space is limited.
This workshop guides participants in applying inclusive and gender-equitable language practices in French, enhancing clarity, respect, and representation in written communication.
French: A Gendered Language
Feminization in Writing
- Lexical feminization
- Proximity agreement
- Doubling of nouns
- Agreement of adjectives in feminization
- Exercises in rewriting gendered text into feminized text
Inclusive Writing
- Gendered and non-gendered pronouns
- Gender-neutral writing
- Neutral wording
- Non-binary writing
- Exercises in rewriting gendered text into inclusive text
Audience: All Intermediate and Advanced Levels
Upcoming Sessions: Wednesday, March 11th, 2026 9:00am - 12:00pm
Location: UPEI's Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development Alumni Hall, 618 University Avenue, Charlottetown, PE
Facilitator: Dr. Ramona Pál-Kovács
Please register for workshops using our webform. Register early as space is limited.
This 3-hour workshop will explain the role that the relative pronouns have in the French sentence structure. It will give an overview of the main relative pronouns in French: qui, que, où, dont, lequel, with practice exercises.
We will then focus on main areas of difficulties, for example, when to use qui or que, or what the difference between dont and duquel is.