by Yolaine Bodin | 30 Dec 2022 | English-French Vocabulary
Happy New Year! Bonne année ! I wish you all a very Happy New Year! May 2023 make your dearest dreams come true! Every year, as we celebrate the New Year, these are the first words we use to send our wishes to people around us: Happy New Year in English, and...
by Yolaine Bodin | 22 Jul 2022 | English Language
Everybody has and uses a phone these days. Have you ever wondered whether you should say on the phone or over the phone? If so, you are certainly not the only one. I have been asked this question many times in my English conversation classes. Actually, the answer is...
by Yolaine Bodin | 25 Jun 2022 | French Language
In French, when talking about means of transport, you have the choice between two prepositions: à and en. The question is, when should you use à and when should you use en? This is the explanation I give in my French classes: Use the preposition...
by Yolaine Bodin | 3 May 2022 | English Language
Home and house are probably among the first words you learned when you started studying English. They are important precisely because our homes and houses are important to all of us. One question I sometimes hear during my English conversation classes is...
by Yolaine Bodin | 28 Mar 2022 | French Language
In one of my French conversation classes, I was recently asked to explain the difference between the words part and partie, how to choose between both words when we want to talk about a part or a piece of something. Both words part and partie can be used in...
