Difficulty: Beginner
France
Nelly will teach you some essential vocabulary for describing people's personality. In Part 1, she focuses on positive traits.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
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!
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Nelly concludes her lesson on personality vocabulary with some adjectives to describe negative traits.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
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!
Difficulty: Beginner
France
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
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!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
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!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
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.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Nelly gives us some more tips for speaking more sophisticated French, including when to use on, l'on, and nous (all meaning "we").
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Nelly concludes her series on speaking sophisticated French with tips on liaisons, using vous instead of tu, and more.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
What better way to learn and improve your French than through songs? Nelly will share her favorites with you, some of which—including "Je veux" by Zaz, "Elle me dit" by Mika, and "Dernière danse" by Indila—are even available on Yabla! Why not check them out?
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Nelly suggests some songs for more advanced French speakers: Charles Aznavour's "La bohème," Angèle's "Balance ton quoi," Stromae's "Formidable," Serge Gainsbourg's "La javanaise," and Orelsan's "Tout va bien."
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Nelly will show you an easy trick to improve your French level: avoid overusing the formula "très (very) + adjective" by replacing it with a more descriptive adjective.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Nelly gives us some more examples of descriptive adjectives that can replace the formulation "très (very) + adjective."
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
In this short French lesson, Nelly will explain the difference between leur and leurs (their, them) with the help of examples.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Nelly will share a few tips to help you determine whether a noun is masculine or feminine in French.
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Nelly goes over the most common endings of feminine and masculine nouns, including some exceptions. Her tips will help you master the tricky subject of gender in French!
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Planning a trip to France? Watch this video to learn proper French etiquette so you don't look too much like a tourist!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Nelly had great plans for getting ready for Christmas, but she hasn't been feeling well, so she's doing the best she can.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Nelly takes us to the Tuileries Christmas market in Paris, then to the beautifully decorated luxury boutiques in Place Vendôme. If you've watched the show Lupin, you will recognize the jewelry store that was robbed by the famous gentleman thief, Lupin!
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
Nelly concludes her Christmas vlog by testing out a new recipe: a smoked salmon snowflake. It's perfect for a winter appetizer and will impress your friends!
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Nelly goes over some useful phrases for expressing love, from telling a friend you appreciate them to promising your partner that you'll love them for the rest of your life. A very romantic video for Valentine's Day!
Difficulty: Beginner
France
Flora tells us about her love of theater, what it means to her, and how it helped her overcome her shyness.
Difficulty: Intermediate
France
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.
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