If you’re lucky, once you get to the airport, there isn’t really that much to say: but sometimes it doesn’t all run quite so smoothly, particularly in winter, and its useful to have a bit of local lingo to find out what’s going on.

We all know how to say ‘la table’ and ‘la chaise’ – they’re some of the first words we learnt at school – but there are plenty of other furniture words that we don’t learn.…