Ƙungiyar Faransanci ta Chicago

An kafa Alliance Française de Chicago a shekara ta 1897,  kuma tana ɗaya daga cikin tsofaffin rassan Alliance Française a Amurka. Asalinsa yana cikin Ginin Fine Arts a Kudancin Michigan Avenue kuma a halin yanzu a kan Dearborn Avenue, yana da niyyar zama "cibiyar al'adu da ilmantarwa ta Faransa ta Chicago da aka sadaukar da ita ga nazarin harshen Faransanci, musayar al'adu, da abota tsakanin Amurkawa da masu magana da Faransanci. "  Richard W. Shepro yana aiki a matsayin Shugaban Hukumar, kuma Mary Ellen Connellan shine babban darakta. 

Alliance Française de Chicago tana ba da abubuwan da suka faru da yawa ga yara da manya ciki har da shirye-shiryen makarantar sakandare, sansanonin matasa na rani, azuzuwan Faransanci daga masu farawa zuwa masu magana da kyau, da daren fina-finai na Faransanci.

Darussan yaren Faransanci a Alliance suna ba wa ɗalibai matakai daban-daban na ƙwarewa da kuma tsawon ɗalibai daban-daban.

## Tarihi
An kafa shi a shekara ta 1897, tare da umarnin inganta al'adun Faransa a Birnin Chicago, Alliance Française yana daga cikin tsofaffin cibiyoyin al'adu a cikin birni. Shahararrun mutanen Chicago a kan Kwamitin Amintattun sun kasance James Deering, Z.P. Briosseau, Charles Henrotin, William Burry, H. Chatfield-Taylor, Charles R. Crante (ministan Amurka na farko zuwa Rasha da China), William R. Harper (shugaban farko na Jami'ar Chicago), Herbert S. Stone da James Gamble Rogers.

Asalin da ke cikin Ginin Fine Arts a Kudancin Michigan Avenue, ayyukan farko na Alliance sun haɗa da darussan harshe, laccoci da ɗakin karatu na littattafan Faransanci da kayan aiki. Le Cercle, wani salon na tattaunawar littéraires, ya ba da dama ta musamman don jin da magana da Faransanci. A farkon shekarun 1900, Alliance ta shiga tare da Cibiyar Fasaha da Jami'ar Chicago don fadada cikin sararin koyarwa da ake buƙata sosai.

Yayinda ayyukan Alliance suka girma, kungiyar ta ci gaba da motsawa zuwa manyan wurare kuma a 1983 a ƙarshe ta sami gidanta na yanzu a 810 North Dearborn Street, wani ɓangare na jere na gidajen tarihi waɗanda aka tsara don rushewa. Ecole Boulle a Paris ta zaɓi sabon gidan Chicago Alliance don aikin sabuntawa don bikin cika shekaru dari na Ecole. An haɗa ƙirar gine-ginen Faransanci musamman tare da kayan aiki daga Faransa, kuma sun haɗa da shimfida hanyar shakatawa a gaban titin 810 North Dearborn tare da shigo da dutsen Paris. A yau, Gidan Kwamitin a bene na huɗu ya kasance misali mafi ban sha'awa na kayan ado na Boulle.

Ginin da ke kusa da 54 West Chicago Avenue an samo shi ne a cikin 1997 tare da kyauta daga gwamnatin Faransa, sannan ya biyo bayan kamfen ɗin babban birnin da mambobin kwamitin daraktoci suka jagoranta don gyara sabon sararin da aka samu. Babban ɗakin taro na bene, Salon, ɗakunan ajiya na sama da ɗakin kwana, zanga-zanga da kicin koyarwa, da kuma ɗakin karatu da aka gyara da kuma Chez Kids Academy a cikin ginin Dearborn duk suna ba da shaida ga shirye-shiryen fadada Alliance a Birnin Chicago a matsayin cibiyar harshen Faransanci da al'adun Faransanci.

A cikin tarihinta, Alliance Française de Chicago ta kasance mai karɓar bakuncin ƙungiyar baƙi daban-daban, masu maraba da shugabanni, jakadu, sarakuna, marubutan, daraktocin fina-finai, masu zanen kayan ado, malamai da masu zane-zane da masu zane a cikin gidajensu.

Shahararrun marubuta da ke ba da lacca a Alliance sun haɗa da Simone de Beauvoir, André Maurois, Jean Giraudoux, Michel Butor, Philippe Claudel, mai ba da kyautar Nobel JMG LeClézio, da François Nourissier, wanda daga baya ya zama Shugaban Académie Goncourt, da masana falsafa Henri Bergson, Jacques Maritain da tsohon Ministan Shari'a Robert Badinter. Farfesa daga Sorbonne da sauran manyan jami'o'in Faransa sun ba da laccoci a fannonin kwarewarsu a yawancin abubuwan Alliance a cikin shekaru.

Alliance ta dauki bakuncin masu zane-zane kamar Pierre Balmain da Hubert de Givenchy . Ayyukan wasan kwaikwayo sun kasance suna wakiltar Sarah Bernhardt, Edith Piaf, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Maurice Chevalier, Marcel Marceau, George Balanchine, Yul Brynner, Maria Callas, Régine Crespin, Sean Connery, da Audrey Hepburn. Don karfafa godiya ga gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Faransa, Alliance, tare da haɗin gwiwar Gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Chicago Shakespeare ya taimaka wajen kawo wasan kwaikwayo na Comédie Française zuwa Chicago.

Tun lokacin da aka kafa ta, Alliance Française de Chicago ta yi aiki a matsayin dan kasa na duniya, tana ba da gudummawa mai mahimmanci ga kokarin taimakon yaki na yakin duniya na farko, yakin duniya na biyu da kuma kokarin sake ginawa bayan waɗannan yaƙe-yaƙe. Alliance ta gudanar da tara kudade don bukatun lokacin yaƙi na Red Cross na Amurka. Membobin sun mirgine kayan aikin tiyata da sutura a cikin wuraren Alliance da za a aika zuwa Turai. Wasu daga cikin mambobin Alliance masu karimci an ba su lambar yabo ta Légion d'Honneur saboda kokarin da suka yi na samar da hatsi da kayayyaki ga Faransa da aka lalata bayan yakin duniya na farko. Alliance ta kuma ba da umarnin harshen Faransanci na kyauta ga maza da mata masu hidima waɗanda aka tura zuwa Turai a wannan lokacin.

A yau, Alliance Française de Chicago ta ci gaba da al'adarta ta dogon lokaci ta kawo malamai zuwa Chicago, gami da marubuta, masu shirya fina-finai da daraktoci, masu yin ruwan inabi, masu dafa abinci, masu zanen kaya, masana tarihi, 'yan wasan kwaikwayo da masu zane-zane. Kungiyar ta ba da rahoton cewa tana da kusan mambobi 2,000 da sama da 3,500 a cikin shekara.

## Makarantar Faransanci
Alliance tana ba da ƙananan ɗalibai ga kowane matakin Faransanci a duk shekara. Ana samun gwaje-gwaje na sanyawa kyauta ga ɗalibai waɗanda suke so su tantance matakin su da kuma daidai aji. Alliance ta aiwatar da ka'idojin ilimi na Faransa da Amurka (AF Frames) don tabbatar da cewa an saita manufofin ilmantarwa kuma an cimma su. Ana gudanar da darussan ne kawai a cikin Faransanci, kuma suna jaddada dukkan fannoni na samun harshe: ƙamus, ƙamus, fahimta, furci da ƙari. Malamai 'yan asalin ƙasar ne ko harsuna biyu kuma an tabbatar da su don koyar da Faransanci a matsayin harshen waje. Alliance tana ba da zaman aji na makonni 4 da 8 a matakai daban-daban na karatu.￼

## Shirye-shiryen al'adu
Alliance tana ba da shirye-shiryen al'adu iri-iri a duk shekara. Bayar da sa hannu na shirin fina-finai na Alliance shine sake dubawa na shekara-shekara. Kowace shekara, ana bincika sabon bangare na fina-finai na Faransa, kuma ana gayyatar sabbin mutanen Chicago don raba ra'ayoyinsu da ra'ayoyin su akan fina-fakkaatan.

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