When I visit family and friends in Bordeaux, canelés are often offered and served with dark coffee or desert wine. I’m actually not leaving town without a box of those little pastry treats. I love everything about them: their little squat fluted column shapes, their caramelised crusts and their delicious custardy interior with vanilla and rum! The ingredients are very…
Last week-end, French people have witnessed a combination of incredible astronomical events. The 20th of March, a total Sun eclipse greeted the Spring Equinox, visible from everywhere in France. Then on the 21st, thousands gathered along the French coast to witness the “tides of the century” with tidal coefficients of 119 (this event actually occurs every 18 years). The…
Petite histoire à partager … Un vieil instituteur donne à “ses petits enfants” une leçon de vocabulaire sur les cris des animaux : Old school teacher giving his children a lessons on french verb used to describe the sound of animals. The french language is rich enough to have one verb per animal sound. Read it out loud…
Je le répète à mes édudiants, apprendre le francais est simple. Une dose de bonne volonté et le tour est joué! Toute simplicité a aussi ses futilités..voire contradictions? En voici quelques exemples rigolots. Pourquoi dit-on qu’il y a un Embarras de voitures quand il y en a trop, et Embarras d’ argent quand il n’…
If you are a student at Rendezvous en Francais in Avalon, you have access to these movies for free. Watching French movies is a great way to be immersed into the French language as it will help you tune your ear to the French “accent” and also help you ( with the subtitles on) to…
Le grand depart Quand on rentre en France, c’est pas un simple voyage, c’est un grand voyage. [when we return to France, it is not a simple trip, it is a big trip] Grand, par sa duree ( 30 heures d’avion, lorsqu’on habite dans le Sud). [ Big, due to its length – around 30…
