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French Grammar – Possessive Adjectives Posted by Transparent Language on Nov 3, 2009
First of all, here are the answers to the family relationships vocabulary exercise I gave you a few days ago. 1. La mère de ma mère c’est ma grand-mère. 2. Les enfants de mon oncle ce sont mes cousins. 3. La fille de ma mère c’est ma sœur. 4. Le frère de mon père c’est…
How to Pronounce French Vowels Posted by Transparent Language on Oct 24, 2009
Perhaps most if not all of our readers will agree that one of the hardest things about learning and dominating the French language is pronunciation!! So, today, I’m going to try to help you out a little bit on this one with some technique talk. This is what you should do to correctly pronounce the…
French Music – Vanessa Paradis Posted by Transparent Language on Oct 18, 2009
Possibly most famous in the US as Johnny Depp’s long-time love and mother of his two children, Vanessa Paradis was born on December 22, 1972 in a town near Paris where she took piano and dance lessons. Now a successful singer, actress and Chanel model, she became a child star in 1987 at just 14…
French Grammar – Adverbs Posted by Transparent Language on Oct 12, 2009
C’est quoi un adverbe? Well, according to my Robert Micro (my all-time favorite dictionary…although not completely sure why), c’est un mot invariable ajoutant une détermination à un verbe (ex : marcher lentement), un adjectif (ex : très agréable), un adverbe (ex : trop rapidement), ou à une phrase entière (ex : évidemment, il ne se presse pas). In English…
French Slang – Argôt Français Contemporain Posted by Transparent Language on Oct 9, 2009
One of our readers asked if I would write an article on slang that young people use. Although I’m not going to say I’m any kind of expert as my teenage days are long over, this article is an attempt to find something for him. Some young people, especially those in urban neighborhoods speak what…
Let’s Talk About Verbs – Venir Posted by Transparent Language on Oct 6, 2009
Je viens de mettre mes filles au lit. I have just put my girls in bed. Venir de conjugated in the present tense and followed by the infinitive is the equivalent of to have just + past participle. Elle vient d’arriver. (She has just arrived.) Ils viennent de faire leurs devoirs. (They have just done…
French Music – Cleopâtre Posted by Transparent Language on Sep 30, 2009
One of the most popular musicals right now in France, Switzerland and Belgium is Cleopâtre: La Dernière Reine d’Egypte (Cleopatra: The Last Queen of Egypt). Having opened at the Palais des Sports in Paris in January 2009, the show has been on tour throughout these three countries since May 2009 and will be returning to…