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...
by Yolaine Bodin | 4 Mar 2016 | English Language
Anyone learning English as a foreign language knows it: the English h must be pronounced and heard! This is not always easy when this h sound does not exist in the learner’s mother tongue, as is the case in French for instance. If it is the case for you,...
by Yolaine Bodin | 29 Feb 2016 | Quotes
This is a quotation taken from “The Identity Card”, a book first published in French in 1980. The author Jean-Marie Adiaffi (1941 – 1999), was an Ivorian novelist, poet, screenwriter and critic. His mother tongue was Anyin–also called agni–, a...
by Yolaine Bodin | 24 Feb 2016 | French Language
You did, do or will do something; a fact or an action lasted, is lasting or will last a certain length of time and you would like to say for how long. In French, you can choose between two prepositions of time: pour or pendant. So, which one should you...
by Yolaine Bodin | 19 Feb 2016 | English-French Vocabulary
Winter is magic, winter is cold. Winter is the season where days are short and we spend more time indoors. And yet, the vocabulary we use when we talk about winter has mostly to do with the weather and what’s going on outdoors. Is it too cold? Are you...
