Some French Halloween vocabulary…and some really bad French Halloween jokes.
Did you know that “La Marseillaise”, France’s national anthem, was actually composed in Strasbourg in 1792, not in Marseilles as we might assume?
At the end of WW2I, the BBC used the opening lines of this poem to signal the start of D-Day operations.
Did you know that nationalities and languages (English, French, Spanish….) are always capitalised in the English language….
Un type rentre dans un bar…..
Claude Francois was an Egyptian-born French pop singer, songwriter and dancer, who wrote and composed “Comme d’habitude”, the original version of “My Way”.
Did you know that the word ‘-aise’ means “native to” or “originating in ?
A french classic and must-read for french learners.
House of the Rising Sun or Le Pénitencier, sung here in French by Johnny Hallyday
Test Your French. Good to see that the Gendarmerie des Pyrénées-Orientales have a sense of humour.