“So, where’s the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?”
-Christina Aguilera
(She’ll never live that one down.)
Le Festival de Cannes
As most of us are well aware, the Festival de Cannes is an annual film festival held in the town of (you guessed it!) Cannes, France. The event takes place each year (usually in May) at the [...]
Beauvais Airport (BVA) is the third and smallest international airport serving Paris (the other two being Charles de Gaulle and Orly). You won’t land there if you’re flying from North America (or anywhere outside of Europe or Morocco), but if Paris is a secondary destination and if you plan to travel within Europe, you may [...]
More »Orly is one of three international airports in Paris (and its environs), the other two being Charles de Gaulle and Beauvais. Beavais is the furthest from Paris, and does not serve flights arriving from North America. (It is a very small airport that is mainly used for Ryanair flights within Europe, but more on that [...]
More »Happy Easter![Audio clip: view full post to listen]
As in many other countries in the world, Easter is a holiday observed in France by both religious and non-religious people. France is still a largely Catholic country, and even those who don’t regularly attend mass throughout the year will go to church on Easter Suday, or Pâques.
Many [...]
Charles de Gaulle is one of three international airports in Paris and its environs (the others two being Orly and Beauvais), but most flights arriving from the United States land at CDG.
The airport is a ways outside of the city, and there are numerous ways to get into Paris, which I will lay out for [...]
I once sat next to a particularly obnoxious American woman on a flight to France who was complaining that the taxi drivers in Paris refused to speak English to her. That’s right: refused.
The absurdity of this remark really stuck with me. Yes, many people in Paris speak English, and yes, some Parisians are snobs, but [...]
LES RUES DE PARIS: PARTIE TROIS – THE STREETS OF PARIS: PART THREE [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
Well, I made Part One and Part Two, so why not round it off with Part Three? There’s always some tidbit of information that I can’t fit into a given lesson, and there’s usually [...]
More »LES RUES DE PARIS: PARTIE UNE – THE STREETS OF PARIS: PART ONE
“Paris Arrondissements”
“Paris Districts”
Paris, like New York City, is divided into large districts. Though smaller and more numerous than New York’s boroughs, the arrondissements of Paris are large enough to comprise many neighborhoods. There are twenty arrondissements of Paris, [...]
“Faire la bise”[fer la biz]
“To kiss on the cheek”
To faire la bise is to greet someone in the traditional French fashion: with a kiss on each cheek. In some regions of France (and in other Francophone countries), three or more kisses is on par, but generally speaking, two is the [...]
Anne has studied and spoken French for over a decade and has lived in both France and Francophone Cameroon. She strives to write lessons that reflect her real experiences and represent the way people really speak.
