by Yolaine Bodin | 7 Apr 2019 | English-French Vocabulary
Meetings are one of the most common events in the workplace. We meet in our own offices or remotely, and an increasing number of meetings gather attendees from all over the world. That’s certainly why I am more and more often asked for the vocabulary...
by Yolaine Bodin | 2 Apr 2019 | Other
What are you doing this summer? How about learning more French while visiting Nice and the Côte d’Azur? The Nice French Summer Course is a French language course designed for those who want to learn real French as it is spoken in France. Here’s...
by Yolaine Bodin | 13 Mar 2019 | English Language
Question tags, also called tag questions are commonly used in English, especially in spoken English. What are question tags? A tag is like a label. For example, you will see price tags attached to products in a shop. A question tag is the same: a...
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...
