In today’s lesson we’ll focus on how to pronounce and use the the name Léon Marchand, a Frenchman who won the gold medal for the 400m medley at the 2024 summer Olympic games in Paris. Léon Marchand [leɔ̃ maʀʃɑ̃]
Today we’re looking at how to use and pronounce les Champs-Élysées, a major avenue in Paris that’s filled with upscale shopping boutiques and restaurants, and links Place de la Concorde to Arc de Triomphe. les Champs-Élysées
“Mon truc en plumes” is an early 1960s French song by Zizi Jeanmaire and was sung by Lady Gaga at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. In this post I’ve translated the French lyrics into English, read each line aloud in French and explained the vocabulary and grammar in detail.
“Hymne à l’amour“ (meaning: hymn to love) is a French song originally written and sung by Édith Piaf in 1950. In July, 2024 Céline Dion performed the song from the Eiffel tower at the opening ceramony of the Paris Olympics. In this post, I’ve read all each line of the song aloud and explained all …
This lesson explores the conjunction tandis que, which translates to both “whereas” and “while”. The Modern French word tandis comes from tamdĭū (so long, all this time) in Latin. tandis que whereas, while
