History, culture, landscape and weather conditions have created an architectural uniformity in France’s regions. Just by showing a picture of a French village or a house, someone can guess which part of France you traveled to. Let’s take a tour of the most recognisable region of France. 1- Alsace Alsace has definitely a Germanic influence with…
La soupe aux choux is a classic French movie and let’s use this title for our Happy learning today!
A friend asked me the other day what is so special about Marseille soaps. I’ve been using them for years, in France and here in Australia. Used by my great grand-mother, grand-mother and my own mother, I’m just following the family tradition. Despite, I must admit, using some commercial soaps -the most natural possible and without…
All french students will know this “off by heart”!! We called a memo-technique phrase. What is it? It relates to the “conjonction de coordination” – that little word linking 2 sentences into one.
Sandrine is cooking for us today a beautiful daube de boeuf, a family recipe. A vos tabliers!
Ha… les Pyrénées! The first thing I do everytime I come back in my hometown Pau, for holidays, is always to organise some trips to the Mountains. The majesty, the quietness, the tranquility of the Mountains is so relaxing. In today’s trip, we are heading with my parents and husband to the border of Spain,…
Today, it’s my name’s day. Most Australians don’t understand this mostly European tradition and more often find it really weird and quite insignificant.
I was watching a replay of Masterchef last night. Three contestants were fighting to avoid elimination. The challenge: cooking a multiple colored layer cake in 3.5 hours! Waouh! I don’t doubt the cake will be nice and tasty at the end, but who’s got time to cook a desert like that? I love cooking and…
If you didn’t know it already, all french nouns are either ” feminine” or “masculine”. For anglosaxons this can be tricky. It matters as feminine nouns will be preceded by “la” or “une” and masculine nouns by “le” or “un”. To help out here is a tip: usually feminine nouns will end with the sound…
La Provence, cultural région of the South-East of France, is after Paris, the most visited place in France. Often associated with the movies Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, endless fields of lavender and olive trees, picturesque villages and towns such as Aix en Provence, Avignon and Arles, Provence has been the home and…
