Read this article in French here and listen to it in French below : The honeymoon period is over. Your steep learning curve has sadly flattened and you don’t know what to do to reignite your passion for the French language. Worst. You’re even thinking of taking on Italian or German. How dare you? Hitting […]
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Have you been studying French for many years yet still struggle to understand spoken French? I hear you. I studied English for eight years at school, and when I moved to the UK, I couldn’t understand anything. Rien du tout. It was upsetting. I wasn’t the only one, apparently. My French flatmate told me the
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Pour lire cet article en français, clique ici. Tu peux aussi écouter l’audio ci-dessous en français : In my opinion, French listening practice should be your main focus when learning the language from day one. So forget about your textbooks and start to listen more! At school, we’re first handed books and PDFs with loads
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Lis cet article en français ici. Fais l’activité liée à la vidéo ici. Learn French with TV series so you can immerse yourself in francophone culture and have fun while learning! In this article, we analyse an extract of A Very Secret Service, a French spy series first broadcast in 2015. You can watch both
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Improving your listening skills is key to learning a language. This matters even more in French, as it’s not a phonetic language. For instance, many letters are silent, which makes many beginning French students pretty mad when they first learn it! I have noticed over the years that students who were exposed to any French
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To read “5 ways to learn French while having fun” in French, click here or you can even listen to it below: Are you tired of the boring dialogues of your textbook and want to make your French learning more enjoyable? In this article, I give you 5 fun ideas to learn French regularly without
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The difference between ‘an’ and ‘année’ can be tricky for foreigners as both words mean ‘year’ in English. Let’s explain the distinction “pour commencer l’année en beauté’, i.e. start the year in style! In some cases, the two words are interchangeable : Il partira de Londres l’an prochain / l’année prochaine. He’ll leave London next
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Parler de séries en cours de FLE est devenu incontournable ces dernières années. La plupart des étudiants en regardent et c’est un sujet de conversation commun dans la vie de tous les jours. Dans cette courte émission de radio, le journaliste nous donne son opinion sur la série “Emily in Paris”, nouvelle série américaine, qui
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Translating ‘enjoy’ in French can be confusing. France is known for its ‘douceur de vivre’, that is to say its relaxed and laid-back lifestyle. It’s also known that French people like to enjoy life in many ways, which translates differently in language. Depending on the context, you’ll have to chose a very different expression. Are
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Common mistakes in French often happen when you translate expressions directly from your mother tongue. Other times, you recently learnt a rule and can’t apply it properly yet. Finally, you might have heard or learnt a wrong expression, repeated it and were never corrected. When it comes to language learning, making mistakes is a necessary
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