Try using one of them in your next French practice! Check out other lessons I mentioned today, like: Practice your French pronunciation: Vowels and Nasal Sounds (En / On / Un..) “Bien Fait” : doesn’t mean what you think it means “Love” in French:“J’aime” / “J’aime bien...
3. to have a familiarity or grasp of, as through study or experience: he knows French. 4. (also intr; may take a clause as object) to understand, be aware of, or perceive (facts, etc): he knows the answer now. 5. (foll by how) to be sure or aware of (how to be or d...
If ATI is not working does it still have benefits? Access Info carried out a campaign in Malta when a person was told they couldn’t submit an FOI request because they were not residents of Malta. They took the case to court, using pro bono lawyers; the court agreed with them and said...
They are not loud, and they are reserved in their expressions. We like to say words like “great”, “magnificent”, or “marvelous”. The French will say “pas mal” (not bad) even if they win the lottery! And you will be wrong if you think Europeans don’t have their own ...
Living in Paris meant that sometimes things went horribly wrong. Times like when I went shopping for boeuf bourguignon ingredients and came home with scouring pads and wine. At least I had the liquor. And I drank it. The cashier wasmeanFrench to me. It’s all her fault. She drove me ...
Beaucoup –The original French term meaning “a lot” or “many.” Plein de –Meaning “plenty of” or “lots of,” often used informally to indicate abundance (e.g., plein de gens –lots of people). Un tas de –Literally “a pile of,” used colloquially to mean “a lot of” or...
Another rising star of French opera ballet, Blaise Rantoanina, singing for the first time in Canada, performs the role of the shepherd Damon, Acis’ close friend. Born in Madagascar, Rantoanina began his vocal studies in his native country and then enrolled in France’s Conservatoire National ...
It was the first time I came across non-professional religious NGOs when meeting at the hotel I was staying at in Port-au-Prince various groups of Americans from Texas with the thickest accent, not speaking a word of French or Creole, who had arrived after the earthquake to “help Haiti...
marie-lucie: It dawned on me that your point is that French has -goui-, while -gui- would be expected in a latinism. That’s interesting, and I think it suggests that the word entered French first of the main European languages, or independently of the others. ...
I mean, read the Jew-Script handed to him: “My daughter Natalie was interested in asking Obama if he could pass some kind of legislation so that the only people that had guns were military personnel and law enforcement. And if people needed guns for sport that they could go to a range...