Difficulty: Beginner
France
This musical adaptation of Marceline Desbordes-Valmore’s poem “La Sincère,” performed by Karin Clercq, is a touching and troubling song — themes the video captures well with its New York setting. You can hear tracks from her brand new album, La Vie Buissonnière, here.
Difficulty: Newbie
France
According to the three-day rule, you should wait three days after a first date before contacting the person. But if they call you, do you pick up or play hard to get and let it go to voicemail?
Difficulty: Beginner
France
In the wake of a deadly terrorist attack on a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt on New Year’s Day, many Coptic Christians are worried about celebrating Christmas (observed on January 6) as openly as they would like. Here is how a gorgeous Coptic church in Marseille is handling the situation.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
The Vendée Globe single-handed around-the-world race is one of the most grueling tests of man’s endurance against nature, with a little help from technology. The race starts, and ends, in the Bay of Sables d’Olonne.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Tanguy de la Forest is ready to fly off to the Paralympic Games.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
In 1985, ten million meals were served by Restos du Cœur. By 2004, that number had skyrocketed to sixty million.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Many French people claim they don’t like receiving junk mail, but marketers have done studies which indicate the opposite.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
On the French Riviera when it’s twenty-three degrees Celsius in the middle of November, some of us are tempted to head for the beach and take one final dip.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
In the tradition of the great Jacques Cousteau, two young Frenchmen have been crisscrossing the world’s oceans documenting their most marvelous encounters in a book. But the book is not just an ode to the beauty of the deep; it is a warning about the impact humans have had on this largely unknown world.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
New York based French chef Daniel Boulud brings his refined French culinary skills to that most typical American dish, the hamburger. Discover the secrets that make this burger the most expensive in the world.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Like old cheese and old wine, old wood is in high demand when it comes to building new chalets. A modern cabin built of ancient wood provides the perfect balance of the old and the new.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
The number of French students interested in studying Chinese has soared in French high schools in the last ten years. Though it is currently offered mostly by elite schools, the French government hopes to make it more accessible to all schools in years to come.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Twenty-eight years ago, Frenchman Michel Garcia fell in love with Easter Island, home of clear blue water and the breathtaking moai. Since then he’s kept busy as a diving instructor and doting father, and he even found time to discover a new species of shellfish!
Difficulty: Beginner
France
At nightfall in Gstaad, the preeminent ski resort in the Alps, a privileged few among the stars and high society can listen to the most popular classical musicians in the world…
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Le Journal reports on the birth of first male heir in the Japanese royal family in over forty years. Spoiler alert: His name is Hisahito, and he's doing quite well these days.
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