Comics help you learn French because they are so visual. Seeing the expressions of the characters’ faces help give meaning to the written word, and it also aids with memory. These visuals help you increase your vocabulary through the connection of words and images. If you are looking for co...
As an adjective, it can mean occurring for no particular reason; haphazard; unpredictable; involving an outcome which is impossible to prediect; arbitary; unspecified; diverse or unexpected. In slang, it can refer to anything that is out of the ordinary, odd, strange or bizarre; a person who...
He's going to callhis parents. -> He's going to callthem. In these above examples, why are both the direct and indirect object pronouns placed in between the verbs instead of in front of both of them? Merci. Sign in to submit your answer Don't have...
Note: French traditional name for the elitist tertiary education (first 2 or 3 years if repeat last year): “Khâgne” is the name of Classe Préparatoire for Art Stream. The Classe Préparatoire for Science Stream is called “Taupe” (Mole 鼹鼠 ). Also some cute names for: Art stude...
Two other prepositions are constructed using nouns referring to parts of the body: cœur meaning ‘heart’ and sein meaning ‘breast/bosom’. While cœur has become grammaticalized to give an ILN (le cœur de la ville‘the heart of the town’ means the part of town the furthest ...
(2021 release; 107 min) opens, we are introduced to the French fictional town of Ennui-sur-Blasé (translated from French, literally, "boredom on apathetic"), where an outpost of the Liberty, Kansas Evening News gathers one last time to bring the final issue of the French Dispatch, a ...
The term mediocracy once signified the power of the middle class, but it has lost its original meaning. We cannot designate it as a condition where the mediocre dominate, more than it being the bonds of domination exercised by the mediocre conditions themselves. We can rank it as a form of...
(through Schwartz’s lens) has the knack of pulling us into a scene with a handful of words. We are there with her, beside her father’s armchair, on the night she first discovers the magic of unspooling the meaning in the letters that used to arrive from relatives in Budapest; we ...
The French cling to it as their last vestige of individuality and its propagation by the foreign service is sacrosanct (mock it at your peril!). The French love their language and habitually use it as a blunt instrument to intimidate uneducated foreigners, i.e. anyone who doesn’t speak it...
France (1930-1940) Armored Car – 1-2 Prototypes and 50 Production Vehicles Built The last Kégresses Through the 1920s, the French company Citroën experimented heavily with military vehicles that used Kégresse suspension. This suspension was initially created by engineer Adolphe Kégresse, who ...