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I have a love for long car trips. When I was younger, my family drove everywhere. For us a 6-hour road trip was nothing. 9-hours in the car was doable, and 12-hours was where things started to feel pretty long….
I still remember the first ever home cooked meal I ate in France. I had just arrived as an au pair in a tiny (and I mean tiny) town in the French Alps about 45 minutes from Chamonix, and I…
Parler. Parlez. Parlait. Parlais. Parlé. Parlaient. Anyone who speaks English would mostly likely think all of these French words are pronounced differently from each other. But, anyone who speaks French knows that that completely normal assumption is wrong. Each of…
I’m not going to lie, I spend way too much time on Instagram. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is go for my phone. And while I’m trying to help end my Instagram addiction,…
Something I found pretty crazy when I traveled around the world was that no matter if I was in Vietnam or Greece or Peru, I would always hear English music on the radio. I would still hear a lot of…
May 1st wears a few different hats in France. You might hear it referred to as la Fête du Travail, laFête du Muguet, or just simply le 1er Mai. La Fête du Travail, or Labor Day, is a public holiday…
Ever since I moved across the Atlantic Ocean a year and a half ago, I had to start making the conscious effort to stay in touch with family and friends. I learned that it can be really easy to let…
I’ve been using Rosetta Stone for language learning since it was just this huge box filled with CDs. Over the years I’ve watched the company evolve to also include an app, but I didn’t think it could get much better…
Even if you don’t speak French, you probably know what a baguette is. The crunchy, airy bread has a pretty good reputation around the world, but most people don’t know that if they heard Harry Potter talking about his baguette…
Like most languages, the French love their slang, or argot. French slang is great because even when it doesn’t make sense at first glance, like the title of this post, once you know the rules it gets pretty fun. The…
When I was in elementary school I went to a Spanish immersion school. And when I was in first grade, an obsession rippled through our school. The obsession was a song (with some amazingly choreographed dance moves) called “Asereje” by…
In German, “tongue twister” is translated as Zungenbrecher, or “tongue crusher,” whereas the Italians translate it as scioglilingua, or “tongue melter.” In French its virelangue, or “tongue turner,” and in Spanish its trabalenguas, or “tangled-up tongues.” Each of these languages…
