by Yolaine Bodin | 20 Apr 2016 | French Language
To start with, you decided to learn French. You learnt your first few words and very quickly, you were taught the pronoun “on”. You were told when and how to use it but many of you still have doubts about the different meanings it can have and...
by Yolaine Bodin | 1 Apr 2016 | French Language
Do you know the difference between the words arrête and arête? Do you sometimes hesitate when you need to write these words and wonder if you should spell them with one or two Rs? The answer is quite straight forward actually. Arrête with a double r is from the...
by Yolaine Bodin | 24 Mar 2016 | English Language
To understand a new language, we also need to understand the culture of the country where that language is spoken. We agree on that. The culture of a country encompasses numerous concepts, elements and references. Humour is one of those. But when you learn a...
by Yolaine Bodin | 18 Mar 2016 | English Language
Every learner of English needs to learn the irregular verbs. There are several hundreds of them (some say there are over 400, others over 600), but there are about 200 commonly used ones. These 200 irregular verbs only represent a small fraction of all English...
by Yolaine Bodin | 11 Mar 2016 | French Language
Lieu, endroit or place? If you are learning French, it isn’t always easy to choose which of these three words to use. They are often confused and the confusion also depends on your mother tongue. Yet, in French, these three words are quite distinct, so...
