Langue Onze: Fantastic French Courses in Toulouse
Quality, professionalism, creative teaching... This language school is highly recommended.
Read the Signs: Avenue de Champagne
One of the most famous streets in France, the Avenue de Champagne is located in Épernay, in the Grand Est region of France. The name originates from the many renowned champagne houses alongside, with names such as Moët Chandon, Mercier, Pol Roger, Perrier-Jouët...
French Word of the Week: Le Foyer
From feu ("fire") to the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...
Le Dernier Mot: Between You, Me and the Gatepost
The day I stopped believing I was a bad student, I could finally start to relax and absorb the lessons floating all around me. Idioms were a new and delightful discovery; expressions such as revenons à nos moutons (‘let’s...
Le Dernier Mot: La Carte de Fidélité
While waiting in the checkout line at le supermarché, I listen to the man in front of me flirt with la caissière.
"Non, je ne suis jamais fidèle!" he chuckles, and his eyes brighten like...
Le Français: The Common Language in the New World
Nearly a century before the Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 to Plymouth, now Cape Cod, the French ran a thriving fur trading business from eastern Canada and southward into what became the...
French Word of the Week: Tenir
A verb that can lift your soul to the heavens or put you down to the lowest depths of disdain.
Cuisinez-vous le français? Learn French with Chef’s Recipes
It is not with nostalgia that the majority of Anglophones look back on the hours they spent learning French at school. As teenagers, we eagerly await the day when we will no longer be...
Book Reviews: The Bonjour Effect
This fascinating and well-researched book offers an invaluable insight into the rules, codes, eccentricities and etiquette of French conversation. All of the traditional guidelines that we adhere to in normal English exchanges simply don’t apply when conversing in French, and where the most...