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Have you ever heard someone refer to language as being alive?New words pop up all the time, but the past eighteen months have seen a particular influx of terminology related to the

Fashion Week, or la Semaine de la mode, occurs biannually in Paris, as it does in London, Milan, and New York. I remember being in Paris one January, walking through the Jardin des

Katharine's English LessonThere is a scene in Shakespeare’s play, King Henry the Fifth, in which Katharine, princess of France, learns English words from her companion, Alice. Katharine says to Alice “Alice, tu

Ideas people have about French spelling range from disgruntled: “It doesn’t correspond to what you hear” to exasperated: “It’s irrational”. Such perceptions of French spelling may have to do with these

Once I lived in an apartment above a Swiss German couple. Sometimes I would hear their raised voices and I thought that they were having very heated discussions. When a friend of mine,

You may have noticed that there are words in English that are very similar to, or even the same as, words in French. To describe something weird, an English-speaker could say it is

If there is one thing the French love, it is oral exams. I believe I took five during my university years alone. This doesn’t even include the oral presentations, or *exposés oraux*

Tips to Distinguish Words that are often Interchanged in FrenchIt’s easy enough to interchange words that sound similar, but when they sound similar and also have similar meanings, they are extremely easy

What Are Conjugations? And How to Learn French Conjugations?Conjugations are variations on verbs in an inflected language that reflect voice, mood, tense, number, and person. Conjugations are used in languages such as

Learn to Describe More Precisely When Shopping in FranceShopping is very much a part of going on vacation, as it gives you the opportunity to walk around neighborhoods, interact with different people, and

The Ne without PasIf you listen to spoken French quite a lot, you will notice that the ne often gets dropped in negations. “Je les vois pas”, “Ils sont pas encore arrivés”, and

Subtitle Translation in the French LanguageIf you are learning French, chances are you are watching French films with subtitles. Perhaps French cinema is what motivated you to study French in the first place.

4 Common Verbs in FrenchCertain verbs in French are commonly used, not only popping up in most conversations, put in the greater part of sentences within these conversations. Try and have a conversation

Verbs and Prepositions in FrenchYou’ll notice that many verbs in French are followed by prepositions. We say “J’ai oublié de lui envoyer le message” and “On s’habitue à la nouvelle

Present Participles in FrenchIf you are familiar with the practice of meditation, you will know that this is an exercise in focusing on the present. During meditation, you might sit with good posture