Today we’ll have a look at a feminine noun which many students struggle to pronounce correctly: guerre, meaning “war”. Towards the bottom of the post we’ll contrast guerre with gare (train station) to see the difference in pronunciation. guerre war
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Today we’ll discover a fun French idiom: Avoir un chat dans la gorge, which means to be hoarse. The literal translation of this idiom is “to have a cat in the throat” and an English equivalent is “to have a frog in your throat”. Other French translations are the adjectives enroué (hoarse) and rauque (raspy). …
In today’s lesson we’ll look at a word which comes up all the time in converation and travel but few students ask how to say: Wi-Fi! In French, Wi-Fi is the same word but is pronounced [wee-fee]. Our example sentences have several useful related words which you could use on a trip to France including …
Who doesn’t dream of going around telling all their family members and friends, “I’m retired!” Bascially, there are two ways of saying “I’m retired” in French: “Je suis retraité(e)” (adjective) or “Je suis à la retraite”. At the bottom of this lesson I’ve included a cool picture of me doing what I hope to do …
In today’s lesson we’ll have a look at yet another slang verb which you’d likely hear in France but not in the textbooks: Péter. English translations include to fart, pass wind, to pop, to burst and to break. Keep reading as we’ll include several fun expressions! péter to fart, burst
