Quoi crops up again and again in French conversation and has several meanings. First and foremost, it means what. It can be used in the...

‘Perhaps’, in French, is maybe not as straightforward as it first seems (but at least French only has one word: ‘peut-être’ for our...

Recent scripted conversations threw up some imaginative endings when people were faced with the realisation that they had gone the wrong...

I often have people telling me that they are good at understanding written or spoken French, Spanish or German, but really struggle...

The French conversation via Zoom last week was about remembering the good old times, le bon vieux temps, threw up lots of questions about...

This week's conversation had one phrase that four people asked me about: 'Il ne cesse de pleuvoir'. Why was there no 'pas' to accompany...

Last week in our French conversations we had the phrase, ‘ça a été?’ This common colloquial expression is used in conjunction with...

Tenir is a verb that came up in our French conversation groups last week. It is quite a useful verb but one that tends to get missed. It...