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, […]
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French Words For Thanksgiving
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 […]
French Words For Halloween
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 […]
Words I Learned From The Revolutionary Calendar
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 […]
French Words I Have Learned This Week – 22/08/2015
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 […]
French Words I Learned This Week – 25/07/2015
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 […]
French Words I Learned This Week – 27/06/2015
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, […]
French Words I Learned This Week – 23/05/2015
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 […]
French Words I Learned This Week – 25/04/2015
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 […]
French Words I Learned This Week – 28/03/2015
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 […]
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