More than two-and-a-half centuries on it has grown into a small, thriving, officially bilingual city, currently bracing itself for another fierce battle between French and English invaders.
Now it looks closer to home with a brand-new piece, and one that's bilingual to boot.
We are now focusing on France and have employed bilingual people.
Mared Swain, who previously worked at the Sherman, directs a production that will use innovative animated surtitles to create a truly bilingual theatrical experience.
Unusually, the trip is bilingual, so your kids will mix with French kids and (whisper it) may even pick up some vocab.
Goldsmith, who was bilingual, launched a French edition of the Ecologist and co-edited a volume in French, La Médicine à la Question (1981).
Now it looks practically permanent: well organised and efficient, with neat piles of clothes and food brightly labelled in Spanish and English and bilingual volunteers wearing "disaster response" bibs ready to help clean, clothe, feed and entertain the migrants for a few hours before they head to the nearby bus station.
"Camera – go," a woman whispers repeatedly into her headset, while two dramatists hiss bilingual instructions to the Anglo-German cast.
Children are learning Welsh from a young age and are exposed to the language constantly, thanks to the bilingual signage all over the country.
With one-in-eight Nashville residents now foreign-born, and one-in-three livingchindren living in a bilingual or non-English household, the city cannot simply wish newcomers away.
America began to reverse this course in the 1960s and 1970s, even though significant damage had already been wrought, with a national law that funded bilingual primary education and a handful of court cases favouring minority-language education.
