Tag Archives: French

Get those escargots out of my lawnmower

You know Fall has arrived when the leafblowers start blasting through the open window. But....

Three cheers for English: Concise, neutral, to the point.

English has its downsides. But when you compare it to German, French and Spanish it....

When life gives you lemons, it helps to recognize them

I thought my French was good enough to get me around southern France. But language....

The French girl who wouldn’t talk

Language class is where you learn to speak a language, but just memorizing vocabulary and....

Stand down, parler, this word is too good to debauch

Language is constantly in flux. Words come, words go, and sometimes their meaning changes altogether.....

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