In today’s lesson we will look at one of the most beautiful words in the French langauge: le printemps, which translates to “spring”, or “springtime”. Let’s jump right into the examples! le printemps spring

Many students who learn French guess their way through the accents and never really take them seriously. In today’s lesson I’ll answer a very specific question: “How do you pronounce the è with the downward slanting grave accent?”. We have great audio and by the end of the lesson you’ll never have to guess again! …

In today’s lesson, we are going to have a look at the preposition phrase lors de, which means both “at the time of” and “during”. A French-to-French translation is au moment de (at the time of). Lors de is always followed by a time word or event. For example, lors de mes vacances (at the …

Today we’re going to discuss the French word meilleur, which translates to both “better” and “best”, depending on the context of the sentence. Rather than getting into long winded grammatical explanations, I’ve presented several practical example sentences which make the usages easy to understand. meilleur better, best

Throughout my 10+ years of teaching French, students have often expressed confusion on how to say and pronounce “California”. In French, California is la Californie. Today I’ll explain the correct pronunciation of Californie as well as which prepositions to use for the state (in California, to California, etc.). la Californie California

Today’s word of the day is: Emprunter, which means “to borrow” and “to take” (in the context of a way or path). There is a very specific caveat associated with the grammar of this verb. I’ll explain below. emprunter to borrow