David Issokson

👉 See also: Love story lyrics (by Indila), where she uses à peine in the song’s chorus. Today’s lesson examines the French expression à peine, which translates to hardly and barely. À peine hardly, barely

Today’s lesson focuses on how to pronounce the masculine noun automne (autumn/fall) in French. The key is to pronounce the -n and not the -m. l’automne autumn / fall

The French masculine noun endroit means “place”. Specifically, it’s used in the context of “I love this place”, “I don’t like this place”, etc. Further down the page we’ll look at la place, which also means “place”. l’endroit place

C’est parti is a French expression that translates literally to “it’s left” and means “And we’re off!”, “Here goes!” and “Here we go!”. It is used to signal the start of an action. Vous êtes prêts pour la leçon? C’est parti! C’est parti ! And we’re off! / Here goes! / Here we go!

S’agir de is a French impersonal verb with a wide range of meanings including to be about, concerning, a matter of, must and to be necessary. S’agir de to be about, to be a matter of, necessary