What does ‘quoi’ mean? The answer is (partly) in the title!
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...
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Aug 25, 20211 min
Peut-être n’est pas, peut-être, si évident…
‘Perhaps’, in French, is maybe not as straightforward as it first seems (but at least French only has one word: ‘peut-être’ for our...
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Aug 25, 20211 min
Some mistakes are easy to make… when you’re speaking French
Recent scripted conversations threw up some imaginative endings when people were faced with the realisation that they had gone the wrong...
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Jul 15, 20213 min
Why is speaking another language so difficult?
I often have people telling me that they are good at understanding written or spoken French, Spanish or German, but really struggle...
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Apr 14, 20212 min
Here’s a reminder about remembering in French…
The French conversation via Zoom last week was about remembering the good old times, le bon vieux temps, threw up lots of questions about...
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Feb 1, 20212 min
So when in French is ‘ne’ not negative and ‘pas’ is optional? Sounds like a riddle, n’est-ce pas?
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...
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Nov 4, 20201 min
L'été – the summer that was…
Last week in our French conversations we had the phrase, ‘ça a été?’ This common colloquial expression is used in conjunction with...
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Oct 2, 20201 min
Tiens! Or… Fancy that!
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...
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