Why Do We Have an Accent When We Speak a Foreign Language?
Last October, during a press conference, President Donald Trump notably dismissed a French journalist’s question, arguing that her accent wasn’t clear enough for him to…
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When Words Come Back and Forth
French and English are like two brothers raised in the same medieval household: the elder, French, spent centuries looking down on his scrappy younger sibling…
Learn French through their Presidents 2 : From Pompidou to Mitterrand
Pompidou – The « liberal » (le libéral) – from 1969 to 1974 In 1969, when De Gaulle decides to withdraw from politics, Pompidou his…
Twelve French Idioms You Owe to the Most Famous French Poet
Rien ne sert de courir, il ne faut pas vendre la peau de l’ours avant de l’avoir tué… What if I told you that all…
“The French get a ton of vacation”
…is a sentence you can hear anywhere in the world, colored by a whole spectrum of emotions: outraged, from the right-wing politician worried about the…
Les Bleus: A Nation’s Favorite Argument
Football wasn’t always France’s sport. For decades, it was regarded with skepticism by most French as déclassé. Roland Garros, the Tour de France, anything with more…