French Words For Christmas
It seems I have abandoned my regular dictionary-checking posts in favour of seasonal specials. But the last two were quite popular so here is one more. This time it is, […]
It seems I have abandoned my regular dictionary-checking posts in favour of seasonal specials. But the last two were quite popular so here is one more. This time it is, […]
There are many Americans living in Paris, including some of my closest friends. Every year in November there begins an expat hunt for sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and other such […]
So the season for children to dress up as adults/monsters and go out begging for confectionary in the streets has arrived. It’s nearly Halloween! Halloween isn’t celebrated in France to […]
I always struggle with the Revolutionary Calendar. It’s a unique period of history for France, when they moved away from the Gregorian calendar utilised by the rest of the world […]
There was quite an array of vocab in my dictionary-check notebook when I looked at it this morning – I’ve got everything from terrorist attacks to circus skills. These are […]
With everything going on at the moment – the book, the day job, the new commitment to weekly blogging (which happens more in my mind than it does on my […]
It feels like summer has finally arrived and I couldn’t be happier about it. There is nothing I enjoy more than sitting outside a café, reading, writing, eating… Ah, June, […]
The day job has been a bit less exhausting this month so I’ve had more time for reading in the evenings. This naturally means more dictionary look-ups than last time […]
It’s been a crazy busy month in the day job so I haven’t had too much time for writing/reading but these are some of the words that made it into […]
Oh there have been some really fun new words in my dictionary-check notebook recently. I’m sure I have learned and forgotten some of these in the past and there were […]