Illustration of a Breton French bilingual school in Rennes.

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C. Allain / 20 Minutes

If you want to learn Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese or Russian from a distance, it is possible.

But not Breton or any other regional language.

To get things going, Loïg Chesnais-Girard, president of the Brittany region, and Emmanuel Ethis, rector of the Rennes academy, have just sent a letter to the director general of the National Center for Distance Learning (Cned).

@ regionbretagne + @ acrennes: skoaz-ouzh-skoaz evit kas ar c'helenn #bzhg a-bell war-raok 💻📱📑 together to promote the teaching of #breton at a distance via @cned pic.twitter.com/zXVwRaC5OM

- Kevre Breizh (@KevreBreizh) December 9, 2020

They ask him "to integrate the distance learning of Breton in its training offer, so that high school students can have access to it, at the start of the 2021", indicate the region and the academy in a joint statement.

"Guarantee the sustainability" of the Breton language

If the request is accepted, a young person could thus continue his apprenticeship after college regardless of his high school and present Breton at the baccalaureate as a living language (as a second language or optional language).

“Beyond the growing appetite of young people for Breton, the issue is highly cultural,” underline Loïg Chesnais-Girard and Emmanuel Ethis.

The dynamism of a language depends above all on the number of its practitioners.

The school of the Republic therefore has a fundamental role to play in ensuring the sustainability of this linguistic practice and the quality of the teaching which is attached to it ”.

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