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Beauty in French: Vocabulary and Cultural Significance
Learn Basic French - If Joey Can Try Learning French, Why Can't You?
“Je m’appelle Claude.” “Je de coup Clow.” “Well, let’s just try it again.” “Je m’appelle Claude.” “Je depli blue.” “Huh, it’s not .. quite what I’m saying.” Hahaha! Didn't we all crack up every time Joey tried to learn French? Good times. But, today, we are here to talk about you. If you’re a slow learner in French like Joey, my sincerest apologies. The language can seem tough. It is true for most of us monolingual people that whenever we come across someone speaking in French, we’re automatically attracted to them. While that might be the case with every...
How to Say Good Morning in French - And Other French Morning Greetings.
Well, translating word for word is something you should usually avoid, or you are asking for trouble. “Bon matin” is a good example of that. Most French-speakers would never use it to greet someone in the morning unless you are from Québec. They will use a simple "bonjour" instead.
In today's article, you will learn all that and many other tips on how to greet someone in French in the morning.
French for Retirees: Settling Into the Dordogne or Provence
You can retire to the Dordogne, join a community so thoroughly British that locals half-jokingly call parts of it 'Dordogneshire,' and live for years on minimal French — entire village social calendars run in English in some areas. So why bother learning the language at all?Because retirement isn't a few months — it's years, often the rest of your life. And France, more than almost anywhere else on this list, has a real cultural expectation around making the effort: a genuine, if imperfect, attempt at French tends to be met with noticeably warmer reception than coasting in English, especially outside...