French Language

Quality, professionalism, creative teaching... This language school is highly recommended.

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...

From feu ("fire") to the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...

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...

The "mind" and "spirit" of a fabulous French mot.

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...

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...

A verb that can lift your soul to the heavens or put you down to the lowest depths of disdain.

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...

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...