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Let’s get moving French style Posted by Tim Hildreth on Aug 17, 2021
I’ve talked before about some of the ways that the French government has been focused on encouraging people to live healthy lives. As mentioned last week, this is also a concern for the Paris 2024 Olympic Committee who wants to use the upcoming games to mettre plus de sport dans le quotidien des Français. But they’re not…
Avoiding repetition: y and en Posted by Bridgette on Aug 13, 2021
Bonjour! Transparent Language Online has recently added 64 French grammar lessons. Each lesson are 20 minutes each, which means we now have over 21 hours of grammar learning! If you’d like to check them out, click here. Let’s look at two of our newest lessons on avoiding repetition by using the pronouns y and en…
Apartment hunting in France: the dreaded ‘dossier’ Posted by Bridgette on Jul 29, 2021
Coucou! 👋 Apartment hunting in France is underway for me and the difficulty is more than I had imagined. I have started to put together the dreaded ‘dossier‘ (file) which many agencies and landlords require before you even look at an apartment. You’ll need to make a lot of les photocopies and they may need…
Les accents Posted by Bridgette on Jul 2, 2021
Bonjour! Let’s talk about accents. In French they are important, since both the pronunciation and meaning of a word can change with or without an accent. For example: pêcheur vs pécheur = fisherman vs sinner Keep reading to help avoid mistakes like fisherman and sinner. 🙂 ________________________________________________________ Accent aigu (the acute accent, lit. the “high”…
A day at the museum Posted by Tim Hildreth on Jun 22, 2021
Paris is a wonderful city for art lovers. Wandering the streets is a treat for the senses. Mais quand le temps se gâche, there is so much more to discover à l’intérieur des musées de Paris. A day at the museum Tout le monde connaît le Louvre. The worlds largest art museum, is surely the most well-known…
Lupin redux Posted by Tim Hildreth on Jun 15, 2021
It’s back! After a brief six month break, Season Two of the series that reintroduced Marcel Leblanc’s gentleman cambrioleur to the world has landed on Netflix. Lupin Season One’s short five-episode run ended with a real cliffhanger. Without giving anything away, I’ll just say that la saison deux wastes no time diving right back into the…
Apartment hunting in France Posted by Bridgette on Jun 4, 2021
Apartment hunting in France In a past blog I talked about my desire to move to France when this period of confinement is over. Now that the borders are opening up on June 9th, there is nothing else holding me back… well, except for figuring out where I will be living of course. So every…