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How to Feel Good about Fille, Fil, and Fils

have a different pronunciation. When talking about les fils (sons), the l is silent while the final s is pronounced....

Gender of Inanimate Nouns and Concepts

football. He likes soccer. Caption 33, Lionel L Les liaisons et le h aspiré  Play Caption   On the other...

Gender of Nouns Referring to Animals

the same pattern as chien/chienne:   Tu as vu? Le papa lion et la maman lionne se suivent partout. Did you see? The...

The Gender of Job Titles

the fifteenth constituency Caption 92, Actu Vingtième: Le bleu dans les yeux, recyclerie de Belleville  Play Caption   Note...

Gender of Nouns Referring to Humans

Frenchman is un Français:   Les habitants de la France, les Françaises et les Français, sont plus de...

Gender Reveal: Masculine and Feminine Nouns

vowel or silent h. In other words, le and la turn into l’ in front of a vowel or silent...

Verlan – The New Slang

is "l'envers" [backward] reversed. Caption 5, Lionel L - Le verlan  Play Caption   Although verlan is widely...

Je craque! – The Verb Craquer

burst):   J'ai l'ego dans les chaussettes et les godasses sur le point de craquer My ego's in my...

An vs. Année

time to reflect on the old days, like les années cinquante (the fifties), which was a...

Morning and Evening: Matin/soir vs. matinée/soirée

two ways of saying "day" in French, le jour and la journée. The masculine term jour refers to a...

What’s in a Day? - Un Jour vs. Une Journée

need to use journée. You would never say tout le jour to mean “all day”: only toute la journée.   Just like toute, prepositions of duration like pendant or...

Present Participles

be replaced with the construction qui + verbe:   La nuit, le bâtiment se reflète sur la mer, attirant...

It's All in the Past! - Part 7 - Reflexive Verbs

woke up with the rooster. Caption 6, Le saviez-vous? - Les expressions du poulailler  Play Caption   In the...

It's All in the Past! - Part 6 - Verbs with Être

explained how they work in her video, Le saviez-vous? - Exception dans les verbes du 1er groupe au passé composé:...

It's All in the Past! - Part 5 - Past Participle Agreement

you seen my keys somewhere? Caption 68, Le saviez-vous? - Les différentes négations  Play Caption   A direct object...

It's All in the Past! - Part 4 - Third-Group Verbs

simply had to stop Caption 34, Lionel L - Le "Canard" a 100 ans  Play Caption   Did...

It's All in the Past! - Part 3 - Irregular -Ir Verbs

pan with the right hand Caption 33, Le saviez-vous? - La tradition de la Chandeleur  Play Caption   Mais...

It's All in the Past! - Part 2 - Second-Group Verbs

In our previous lesson, we covered the passé composé of first-group...

It's All in the Past! - Introducing the Passé Composé

être, which we'll explore in a future lesson.   Les auxiliaires "être" et "avoir" The auxiliaries "être"...

How to Hug in French

un câlin May the word be sweet like a cuddle Caption 4, Les Nubians - Que le mot soit perle  Play Caption   You can...

To Kiss or Not to Kiss?

is not typically used as a greeting like la bise:    Et moi, j'ai pas droit à...

Just Kidding!

courant Gently mocking famous people is very common pendant la période de carnaval. during the carnival period. Caption 20, Le saviez-vous? - Le carnaval en France  Play Caption...

Leveling up with au niveau de

abilities:   Ben, c'est vrai qu'au niveau de la santé, Well, it's true that on a health level,  je le ressens parfois. I feel it sometimes. Captions...

French Art Vocabulary

the frame remains. Captions 10-12, d'Art d'Art - "La Joconde" - Vinci  Play Caption   Le cadre is the frame around a painting or...