by Yolaine Bodin | 29 Apr 2017 | English Language
If you’re learning English as a foreign or second language, you may be wondering what the difference between small and little. When should you use small, when should you choose little? Both words small and little refer to size and are the opposite of big...
by Yolaine Bodin | 14 Apr 2017 | French Language
Let’s say it straight away: soit-disant with a t at the end of the first word simply does not exist! The correct spelling is soi-disant. Right, but what does it mean? In French, soi-disant can be both an adjective and an adverb. If you are learning...
by Yolaine Bodin | 8 Apr 2017 | English-French Vocabulary
Think of someone you know really well. You know them so well that you can anticipate their reactions; you know how this person will react in most situations. Think of a place you know inside out, your area or your city. You know every nook and cranny of that...
by Yolaine Bodin | 25 Mar 2017 | Translation-wise
When translating a text from English to French, examples of the usage of plural nouns in phrases or sentences like the ones I gleaned on the web are not unusual: Helping people improve their lives The most popular way people hold their phones Doctors...
by Yolaine Bodin | 11 Mar 2017 | Quotes
Roger Bacon is credited with this quote although I have to say I have not found what book it is taken from. Roger Bacon was an English philosopher from the 13th Century who studied linguistics among many other things. He was so scholarly that he was also...
