Have you ever wondered where the wool from your luxurious angora sweater comes from? At the Ferme de la Croix, a lovely lady breeds angora rabbits and goats on her farm. She explains the shearing process and how she cares for her pets. We learn that one rabbit can yield forty balls of angora wool every hundred days. That's a lot of sweaters!

In the second episode of Ferme de la Croix de Pierre, the goat breeder gets all warm and cuddly with one of her baby goats, which become like plush toys when bottle-fed. She'll teach you all you need to know about caring for these adorable animals.

After the farm visit, it's time for our angora rabbit and goat breeder to show us around her boutique, where you can stock up on fluffy angora wool sweaters and super light and warm socks to help you enjoy the winter in comfort.

The town of Richelieu, named for the famous cardinal, organized a Chinese film festival. Already twinned with the Chinese town of Wuzhen, the town took an opportunity to celebrate both classic and newly released films from that country. The famous French director Claude Lelouch was the "godfather" of this initiative.

Nelly explains the five most important grammar rules you'll need to know to learn French. In this first part, she focuses on sentence structure and gender.

Concluding her overview of the five fundamental grammar rules in French, Nelly introduces the concepts of singular and plural, as well as the conjugation of verbs.

Nelly will teach you some essential vocabulary for describing people's personality. In Part 1, she focuses on positive traits.

Enrich your vocabulary and impress your French-speaking friends next time you need to describe someone's personality. Just be careful with masculine and feminine endings!

Nelly concludes her lesson on personality vocabulary with some adjectives to describe negative traits.

Nelly will introduce you to some of the most common French faux amis (false cognates)—words that may look easy to understand because they resemble English, but mean something entirely different. Learning these might help you avoid some embarassing situations!

Nelly discusses some more faux amis (false cognates) in English and French. You'll need to be especially careful with some of these, such as "excited" and excité.

Nelly shares her selection of the top places to visit in France, from the Loire castles, to the medieval city of Carcassonne, to the Riviera. Happy travels!

Nelly concludes her list of the ten most beautiful places in France, including Annecy, often called the Venice of the Alps, and Toulouse, the Pink City. Happy traveling!

Nelly offers twelve tips for speaking in a more sophisticated way so you won't sound like a beginner. Listen to her advice and try to implement it in your day-to-day speech.

Nelly gives us some more tips for speaking more sophisticated French, including when to use on, l'on, and nous (all meaning "we").