Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Attention all Scorpios: according to François Lambert, the year 2011 will present many challenges to your love life. But don’t worry––learning French will just keep getting easier and easier!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Even an economic crisis can’t put a dent in luxury car sales. Looks like when you’re willing to wait that long for your dream, and able to pay for it, nothing can get in your way.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The Toxic Avenger is a French house artist based in Strasbourg. In this video, he teams up with Orelsan to bring Facebook to life.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Canada
Georges Laraque, one of the most renowned hockey players in the NHL, tells us about an innovative project: vertical farming, whose technology will limit the use of natural resources needed to grow plants.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The rue de la Roquette, in Paris’s 11th arrondissement, is so named because it is either full of weapons or full of lettuce – or neither! Find out the history behind this ancient street and learn the various meanings of the word roquette in this video.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Ariel Dorfman’s play Death and the Maiden is no light fare, detailing the horrors of both violence and military dictatorship. It is partly based on Schubert’s famous string quartet of the same name.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Nowadays, even monks need to make a living. These five pious men, from the parish of Mesnil-Saint-Loup, make theirs by selling beautiful handmade pottery and ceramics for anywhere between five and two-hundred euros. They even maintain a website.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Does your textbook ever seem more confusing than enlightening, more wrong than right? A recent study showed that some French textbooks could use a little fact-checking.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The first electric car? 1899! La Jamais contente. This car and other rare self-propelled antique vehicles can now be seen in car museums.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Armande has turned an old farm near Strasbourg into a mouth-watering country store complete with live rabbits and ducks. According to Armande, it’s also one of the few places to get food in her village, so chances are business is booming!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
The beautiful Jardin du Luxembourg attracts both neighborhood students and foreign visitors alike. But let’s discover some of its lesser-known spots, such as the school of honey production and the association of pétanque players.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Michel, co-owner and head chef at Parigot, shows us how to make his very own tuna tartare. We can see why it’s so popular!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Ask the Strasbourgeois what they love about their hometown, and most of them can sum it up for you in one word: tout! But don’t just take our word for it. See for yourself!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
No Quatorze Juillet would be complete without pétanque and Lillet—and that doesn’t just go for France. Here we talk with some of the people attending a Bastille Day celebration in New York City.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Just how did Jean-Marc get the money for that beautiful car and those fancy ski trips? The answer involves a roundabout trek to the open outcry auction market of the French stock exchange (“la Bourse”). So could we say that Wall Street too resembles a “playground for grownups”?
Are you sure you want to delete this comment? You will not be able to recover it.