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French Vocabulary

Quiz: how well do you know your French Proverbs?

Kate 18/01/2025 0 Comments

Using proverbs in your French conversation won’t necessarily make you sound like a native but they’re good to know and can be useful.

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French Vocabulary: the cold season

Kate 15/01/2025 0 Comments

French cold vocabulary. We can’t make you better, but we can help you to moan about it more efficiently in French! Remettez-vous vite!

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French Poems and a Happy New Year 2025….

Kate 31/12/2024 0 Comments

HAPPY NEW YEAR! MAY ALL YOUR HOPES AND DREAMS COME TRUE IN 2025

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Quiz: French Idioms 2

Kate 20/10/2024 0 Comments

Actions speak louder than words so good luck with this French idioms quiz, look out for the next one coming soon…and break a leg!

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Clocks – don’t forget to turn them back

Kate 16/10/2024 0 Comments

Don’t forget to turn your clocks back.

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Test your French – Le gendarme à la ferme

Laura McLellan 21/09/2024 1 Comment

Test your French with a giggle: le gendarme à la ferme. See if you can understand what happens when the gendarme gets too big for his boots at the farm

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Quiz: More French Proverbs

Kate 11/09/2024 0 Comments

Using proverbs in your French conversation won’t necessarily make you sound like a native but they’re good to know and can be useful.

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Le plan Vigipirate: fighting terrorism in France

Kate 30/03/2024

Frances’s Vigipirate plan has been triggered following the recent terrorist attack near Moscow on March 22, 2024, amidst fears  of an increase in terrorist activity.

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FRENCH VOCAB: HAIR AND BEAUTY

Kate 13/03/2024 0 Comments

If the language barrier leaves you looking more like Olive Oyl than Oliva Newton John when you visit the hairdressers, pop eye, I mean pop in to see Samantha, English speaking hairdresser.

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Test your French – autumn 2023

Laura McLellan 08/11/2023 0 Comments

Check out our language exercises to test your French

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Proverbe chinois:
Si tu tapes ta tête contre une cruche et que ça sonne creux,
n’en déduis pas forcément que c’est la cruche qui est vide.
(n’en déduis pas forcément – dont necessarily assume)

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