by Yolaine Bodin | 1 Mar 2019 | French Language
The French word chose is a feminine noun: une chose (a thing). It may thus seem logical to think the set phrases quelque chose and autre chose are feminine, too. That’s forgetting only too quickly that the French language is full of surprises – of...
by Yolaine Bodin | 16 Feb 2019 | Other
After spending a year in Germany and then several years in England where I graduated as a teacher, I took a train back to the South of France. The French ticket inspector came along and checked my ticket. When he saw I had got on the train in Winchester, he was...
by Yolaine Bodin | 1 Feb 2019 | Quotes
This quote stems from a research carried out about the perception of time depending on the language you speak, where Panos Athanasopoulos, Professor in linguistics and English, gave the following explanation: “By learning a new language, you suddenly...
by Yolaine Bodin | 19 Jan 2019 | French Language
You may be unsure as to what preposition –à, de or par– you should use after the French verbs commencer and continuer. Well, rest assured you are not the only one for that is a question quite a number of students who attend my French classes ask. So,...
by Yolaine Bodin | 7 Jan 2019 | English Language
If you look up the difference in English between among and between, you will find two kinds of explanations, one just saying that between is used when referring to 2 items and among with 3 and more, and another saying it is more a question of the following...
