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...
by Yolaine Bodin | 29 Dec 2021 | English Language
If you have attended English classes, the chances are you learnt the word if quite early on. Later, you may have learnt the word whether. That is when you were probably told that the meaning is the same and that you can use whether instead of if, but not...
by Yolaine Bodin | 2 Oct 2021 | French Language
Avoir à faire and avoir affaire are two different ways to spell a French phrase that sounds exactly the same when you hear it. As you may imagine, the spelling is different because both phrases don’t mean the same at all. Let’s see what the difference is: ...
by Yolaine Bodin | 10 Jul 2021 | Other
KAs a child, I used to spend hours on end looking at world maps and reading about other cultures. When I was on my own playing in the little wood at the bottom of my street, I would pretend I could speak a rare language from an unknown country. I have always been...
