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Coucou, Christmas is coming and your dream comes true: you are in France! You visit the Christmas markets, eat roasted chestnuts and drink « vin chaud ». While walking around the stalls, French people talk about their preparations for Christmas: what they’re planning to cook,
Coucou, It’s Christmas time! It will soon be the moment to wish all your loved ones a Joyeux Noël. The phrases you’ll use in French to wish a Joyeux Noël to your colleagues, your friends or your family are not the same. How do we
First days of December. You’ve been living in France for a while now. Christmas is coming and you have no idea what to bring back home. And NO: you WON’T buy an overpriced plastic Eiffel Tower. You’re looking for something that looks French AND is
When you’re in France, sometimes, you encounter problems. Not necessarily big ones. I’m talking about small ones. Small annoying ones. Where you’d happily welcome a helping hand. A little help from a local. How can you politely ask for help using the appropriate, well-constructed sentence
What to say when you don”t know the French word for it? Survive France by learning to ask “How do you say…” or “What do you call this or that? Learn it here!
When you’re with French friends, you SEE the importance of greeting. Around you, they kiss or shake hands, they say hello, ask for news. THEN the conversation can start. It’s a crucial step in the French culture. And YOU want to be part of it.
How many emails do you write every day? You don’t even think about it when it’s in English. But when you have to write emails IN FRENCH… It takes you a lot time AND concentration AND Google translation. Way more worry and hesitation than it
When you’re at a bar in France and you meet a new French person, it’s difficult to speak with her in French. It’s often noisy, you can’t hear every word so you don’t understand everything… Maybe you just nod. But you KNOW you’d like to
Imagine: you’re at the market in France. Every person around you speaks French while buying vegetables, eggs and flowers. It’s casual French. When you hear it, you notice that everybody uses the SAME phrases. As if it was « automatic phrases ». These scripted conversations all French
When you’re at the restaurant in France, everything is complicated. The menu is in French. Even when you understand French, you don’t understand what the name of the dish stands for. And on top of that, when you order, the waiter asks: « Quelle cuisson votre
