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About the Portal

To learn more about who we are, what we do, and what our goals are, click on About the Portal. You can also familiarize yourself with our editorial guidelines, and much more.

Note that the Language Portal of Canada has a parallel French language site—the Portail linguistique du Canada. While these Internet sites follow the Official Languages Act wherever possible, their content is not identical. Both sites, however, have the same objective of promoting the use of Canada's official languages, English and French.

Site Map

Information on the layout of this Web site can be found in our Site Map.

FAQs

Consult the FAQs page to find answers to questions that are frequently asked about the Language Portal of the Government of Canada.

What's New?

What's New? provides you with information on the latest changes or additions to the site. You can also subscribe to our E-mail Notification Service or to our RSS Feed to be notified automatically when new content is added to the Portal.

Contact Us

Our Contact Us page can help you find the most convenient way to get in touch with us.

Search

To navigate this site, you can use the Search function or consult our Site Map, where you can find a list of the pages making up this Web site.

Accessibility Message

While every reasonable effort has been made to ensure the accessibility of this Internet site, some content or services found here may not be accessible to some visitors. If you have any problems with access, contact us by email at: noslangues.ourlanguages@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca.

Important Notices

If you have any questions about copyright, privacy, official languages, etc., go to Important Notices.

Privacy

Any personal information collected electronically is protected under the Privacy Act.

The Internet is a public forum and electronic information can be intercepted. This is not a secure Web site. Please do not disclose unnecessary confidential information about yourself.

Adobe Acrobat PDF

Some documents in the Language Portal are only available as PDFs (portable document format), an electronic format that can be viewed, saved and printed on a broad range of hardware and operating systems.

To open a PDF document, your computer must be equipped with the Adobe Acrobat  Reader software. This software may be downloaded free of charge from Adobe's Web site (www).

Share a page

You can recommend a page of the Portal by e-mail, social bookmarking1 or social networking2 by clicking on the "Share this page" button, which is located in the top right corner of most pages.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at noslangues.ourlanguages@tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca if you have any comments or suggestions about this feature.

(1) Social bookmarking allows you to save your favourite links on the Internet through social bookmarking sites such as Google Bookmarks or Reddit. These sites offer many advantages. You can:

  • access your favourite links from any computer or mobile device connected to the Internet;
  • search your favourite links easily using the keywords (commonly called "tags") you assign to each link;
  • share your favourite links with an Internet community;
  • discover the favourite links of other Web users who share your interests.

Social bookmarking sites are usually free, but you must subscribe to use them. Social bookmarking is also known as collaborative tagging, social classification and social indexing.

(2) Social networking sites, such as Facebook and Linkedln, are Internet platforms that allow you to interact online and create interconnected Web communities. You can create personal profiles, establish lists of users with whom you have a common connection or establish new relationships. To exchange ideas with other members, you can post messages to your personal page, send e-mails and instant messages or share files.