How can we integrate use of a foreign language into an internship?

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We have a few interns here that have orders from college to integrate speaking, reading, and writing French into their internship.
All of them are working on developing their own web application, and I'm wondering how we can integrate French into their projects.
Here are some things I've come up with:

Translate the whole project front-end to French
Write French documentation for the project
Promote the application in a French community
Speak French (exclusively?) to our project managers

Any other ideas or suggestions? Does anyone else have experience with this?

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