by Yolaine Bodin | 26 Nov 2017 | English-French Vocabulary
Spices are used everywhere in the world. Spices bring out the flavour of vegetables of course, but not only. They also add colour to your dishes and they can be used in medicine, too. You can find the French names of 10 autumn vegetables here. Do you know what...
by Yolaine Bodin | 18 Nov 2017 | French Language
Falloir and valoir are two distinct French verbs that are sometimes confused. At this point, I would like to reassure all learners of French as a foreign language and say that even French natives may mix them up in some instances! I gather the confusion comes...
by Yolaine Bodin | 11 Nov 2017 | Quotes
Valery Larbaud was a French writer and translator from the early 20th Century who was a great traveller and spoke English, German, Spanish and Italian. His contributions as a translator and proofreader promoted and popularised the works of great authors such as...
by Yolaine Bodin | 4 Nov 2017 | French Language
Last week, I was writing a sentence on a whiteboard during a French language class. It was an example that included the word “censé”. The question immediately arose: “Oh, really, is it with a c? I thought it was spelt with an s!” Ah, but...