Hugo prepares a mouth-watering winter recipe that will stick to your ribs and delight your palate. It's a tradional dish called croziflette, from the Savoie region in the French Alps, that uses a local cheese called Reblochon and a local pasta known as crozet.

These pickled red onions add an extra kick to everything from sandwiches to salads to stews. Plus they're a breeze to make!

Hugo is cooking homemade gnocchi. To make it even more delicious, he adds some chanterelle mushrooms and a deluge of Parmesan cheese. Try this simple recipe at home if you have plenty of time to spare!

Hugo shows us how to make a classic and absolutely mouth-watering dessert: crème brûlée! You might want to invest in a blowtorch for this one...

Learn how to make spaetzle, an Alsatian pasta, to accompany a mouth-watering dish, chicken with yellow wine and morel mushrooms. A delicious way to end the year!

Hugo continues to concoct his delicious chicken with yellow wine and morel mushrooms. He'll tell you everything you need to know about carving a chicken!

Hugo serves up his delicious winter dish of chicken and morel mushrooms over a bed of spaetzle. He bets that his guests will ask him to make it again next year!

Hugo will show you how to make falafel from scratch. Don't worry, it's not hard as it seems. Follow his instructions carefully and they should not fall apart and end up looking like "falafails."

Hugo finishes preparing the falafels and cooks them to perfection: crispy on the outside and ultra-soft on the inside. You'll be dying to take a bite!

Cristina talks about Senegal, where she comes from. This French-speaking country has close ties with France and is well worth a visit. It has a mild climate and a beautiful coast. And you might like to try the local cuisine, such as chicken yassa.

English speakers may find this strange, but most European languages (including French) assign a gender to every noun. So how are you supposed to know that the word for “apple” (la pomme) is feminine, but the word for “grape” (le raisin) is masculine? Practice, practice, practice!

The French equivalent of ESL (English as a Second Language) is known as FLE (Français langue étrangère, or "French as a Foreign Language"). FLE is what you're learning right now, and it's what one of the women in this video is learning to teach.

Yacine Boularès, a young French musician of Tunisian origin, demonstrates some of the differences between Western and Arabic music on his saxophone. If you like what you hear, check out Yacine's jazz band, Afro Groove Collective.

Yacine Boularès, from the band Afro Groove Collective, talks about the different kinds of saxophones and gives a demonstration of each one. If you'd like to expand your saxophone knowledge even further, check out these Yabla videos from jazz musician Alex Terrier!

The musician Yacine Boularès talks to us about his large family, which spans two continents, and explains the origins of French influence in Tunisia.