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Ah, grammar. The system of language gets a bad rap among language learners. If you’re learning French, and it’s 21 different verb forms, you’ve probably struggled over a few verbs charts or stumbled through telling a story in the future…
When I was in Morocco, I got to stargaze in the Sahara desert and eat endless tajine, but my favorite memories are the moments my friends and I had with our tour guide. In Greece, I swam in underground lagoons…
If you didn’t know already, September 8th is International Literacy Day, a day created to highlight literacy’s importance to people worldwide. So, in honor of this special day, we wanted to try to make French literacy a little more accessible…
When I was fourteen years old, I started my freshman year at an international boarding school. I arrived at my dorm room, hands full with all of my belongings, and soon after, I met my future roommate, Casey. Casey was…
Memorizing French numbers can be tricky, mainly because the French have a few funky counting rules. The good thing is that if you want to learn French numbers, you just have to use a little mental math and a lot…
If you’re here, you might be struggling with your French verb conjugations. If English is your native language, learning French conjugations may seem complicated because there are so many more French verb conjugation rules than English ones. Today, instead of…
Imagine this: You’re walking down the street, and you see two people shaking their heads, throwing their hands in the air, and rolling their eyes. They’re speaking a language you don’t know, but you know they’re in a disagreement. Body…
When I first moved to France, I worked as an au pair in a tiny village in the French Alps. Although I’d studied French for six years by this point, there was a ton for me to learn. I learned…
Bastille Day is a national holiday in France that celebrates the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, the event which started the French revolution. So each year on July 14th the French celebrate their country and its history with…
The French love their language. They even have a whole council called the Académie Française that is devoted to keeping the French language in pristine shape. One of the things this committee is constantly fighting against is the influence of…
Before I moved to Normandy, I didn’t know much about it. I knew about the D-Day beaches from my history lessons, and Le Mont-Saint-Michel from my French lessons, but besides that I didn’t really know that much about Norman culture….
What do you think of when you hear the word “wellness?” In the U.S., words like smoothies, yoga, and jogging usually come to mind. Most people know that wellness activities like these can make us feel better, and even happier,…
