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  • 16.31 - Small Words, Long French Histories
  • La Belle Vie: The French tradition I never escaped during the summer
  • 16.28 - Bilingual Homework, Dutch Jerseys and a Tea Set at Dawn

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myfrenchlife.org /1 month ago

16.31 - Small Words, Long French Histories

FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS— Fourme, before it was fromage, a village Paris swallowed whole, and a valley shaped by faith and wine.

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thelocal.fr /2 weeks ago

La Belle Vie: The French tradition I never escaped during the summer

From holiday homework to unsolicited grammar corrections - this week's La Belle Vie explores how even growing up French shows there is always room for improvement.

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myfrenchlife.org /1 month ago

16.28 - Bilingual Homework, Dutch Jerseys and a Tea Set at Dawn

FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS—a mother relearns competence in two languages, a Dutch royal colour traces back to Provence, and a photographer finds clarity at 6am.

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Learn and speak French with confidence

manu: without shaking? It’s kinda this guy’s trademark so I imagine it’s pretty integral whatever language. Shakin' Stevens - This Ole House (Official HD Video)

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Learn and speak French with confidence

For a full minute.

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myfrenchlife.org /1 month ago

16.28.a - What France Is Worth: Money, Colour and Midnight Light

FRANCE AS IT MEANS—private equity discovers perfume, a Dutch royal house owes France a favour, and two writers find their footing in a new language and a sleepless night.

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thelocal.fr /2 days ago

French Expression of the Day: Franco-Français

This expression is good to know when you're referencing something very French...

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Learn and speak French with confidence

Okay.

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myfrenchlife.org /2 weeks ago

16.33 - The Little Things France Does Differently

FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS—Three everyday moments that reveal a lot about French people, customs and culture.

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myfrenchlife.org /1 month ago

Twenty is for God

When my French husband and I moved from California to France with our three-month-old, it was specifically so our family could be bilingual.

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Learn and speak French with confidence

I have always disliked Nicholas Parsons.

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survivefrance.com /2 weeks ago

Bangers and Back Bacon from Blighty

The innovation centre manager where I worked 25 years ago was French and brought a car over. She was trying to register it in the UK and required certain documents from France to d...

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survivefrance.com /6 days ago

Moving to France half the time

I think a lot of people would like to try. OH thought having an Irish gg-grandparent might qualify him, but I’ve never found the birth certificate.

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myfrenchlife.org /3 weeks ago

16.32.a - What Generosity Bought Me

FRANCE AS IT MEANS— ten days away, a costume festival in Arles, a museum built on a mine shaft, and a knitter who hates to knit

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myfrenchlife.org /1 month ago

16.31.a - Where Things Come From

FRANCE AS IT MEANS—a lazy assumption that turned out wrong, a word that used to just mean cheese, a road named for an abbot, a river shaped by saints.

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thelocal.fr /1 month ago

La Belle Vie: French wedding traditions and the trick to avoiding a hangover (allegedly)

From days-long celebrations and endless family reunions to a handy French rule for drinking wine - this week's La Belle Vie takes you inside a traditional Breton wedding.

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myfrenchlife.org /3 weeks ago

16.32 - Arguing Over Socca

FRANCE AS IT HAPPENS—a costume festival in Arles, a museum built over a mine shaft, and the knitter who hates to knit

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Learn and speak French with confidence

Repetition?

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thelocal.fr /3 weeks ago

8 favourite French words of the day

Condiments and emotion meet in a phrase for getting cross, a couple with facial connotations, and a very ordinary definition for a technical-sounding term

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survivefrance.com /2 days ago

Moving to France half the time

Yes there must be.. My written French isn’t that strong, but perhaps the people who come on to simplify attack others would skip straight past.

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survivefrance.com /1 month ago

Learn and speak French with confidence

I wasn’t aware that shaking when speaking French was a problem. Is it some form of neurological disorder?

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survivefrance.com /1 week ago

Learning to speak french

One small suggestion for improving vocabulary - if you don’t already do so, try turning on the device language option to French instead of English, in your phone, tablet, laptop et...

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myfrenchlife.org /1 week ago

16.34.a - I Don't Want to Give You More to Read +++

FRANCE AS IT MEANS—what I'm really asking myself this week, a carsick ride into Annot, the pulse of the 12th arrondissement, and the department stores history forgot

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myfrenchlife.org /2 weeks ago

16.33.a - Two Roses, a Kiss, and a Very Late Bedtime

FRANCE AS IT MEANS—The strange history of Grasse, a Yorkshireman's first bise, and the bedtime rules nobody warned you about

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