by Yolaine Bodin | 28 Jul 2016 | French Language
Les gens: people talk, are talked about, they are all around us, they are everybody else but we are people, too. In this article, you are going to crack the secret about this very special word. So, what’s so special about people, or rather about the...
by Yolaine Bodin | 19 Jul 2016 | English-French Vocabulary
It’s summer! For most of us, summer goes hand in hand with holiday – or vacation for American speakers. You may decide to travel or to stay home and enjoy the company of your family and friends. Or you may want an active holiday. But, frankly, a holiday...
by Yolaine Bodin | 8 Jul 2016 | Quotes
This is a quote by Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009), a French anthropologist and ethnologist, member of the French Academy (Académie Française). It is truly difficult if not impossible, to imagine a world in which only one single language would be spoken. Some...
by Yolaine Bodin | 1 Jul 2016 | French Language
Most of you have already learnt the word quand. It is the French equivalent to ‘when’. Hence, quand is always about a moment in time: Quand partirez-vous? (When are you leaving? Je te prévendrai quand je partirai. (I’ll warn you when I leave) But...