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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

espérons que vous avez craqué sur cette leçon (We hope you fell for this lesson)! ...

An vs. Année

also always use année with ordinal numbers like première/deuxième/dernière (first/second/last). So we say la première année (the first year):   Et c'est...

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

Ce matin, je me suis réveillée avec le coq. This morning, I woke up with...

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...

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

to be) will follow another. In this lesson, we'll focus on verbs conjugated with avoir.  If...

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

And so I prepared a very useful lesson for you. Caption 7, Le saviez-vous? - Conjugaison des verbes du 1er groupe...

How to Hug in French

Un câlin is a more familiar hug, more like a cuddle:   Que le mot soit doux comme un câlin May...

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...

Surtout, Above All

all, don't forget anything. Caption 9, Bande-annonce - La Belle et la Bête  Play Caption   There...

How to Talk About "Stuff"

That is to say... jam and stuff like that. Caption 10, Sophie et Patrice - Le petit-déjeuner  Play Caption   D'abord, je mets un...

Risky Business

for quite some time. Captions 35-38, Lionel L - La pandémie, un mois déjà  Play Caption   We...

Rest Assured!

sure"/"to check":   Je vous assure qu'elle est là. I assure you that it's there. Caption 37, Le saviez-vous? - Les verbes du 1er groupe les...

Savoir: The More You Know

through an interesting literary form, a su toucher le fond de la nature humaine. was able to reach the depth...

French Protest Words

back to the December 5 protest, which, like many protests in France, was launched by des syndicats (unions):    Le mouvement a été lancé par des syndicats......