Roger Tallon exhibition
You may not have heard of Roger Tallon, but if you’ve spent any time traveling in France, you’ll have definitely encountered his work. Tallon was a prolific designer who started […]
Barbie exhibition – last chance to see!
She was born in 1959. She’s one of the most famous women in the world and is an incredible polymath, having tried her hand at dozens of careers. Among the […]
French Words For Christmas
It seems I have abandoned my regular dictionary-checking posts in favour of seasonal specials. But the last two were quite popular so here is one more. This time it is, […]
French Words For Thanksgiving
There are many Americans living in Paris, including some of my closest friends. Every year in November there begins an expat hunt for sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and other such […]
French Words For Halloween
So the season for children to dress up as adults/monsters and go out begging for confectionary in the streets has arrived. It’s nearly Halloween! Halloween isn’t celebrated in France to […]
Words I Learned From The Revolutionary Calendar
I always struggle with the Revolutionary Calendar. It’s a unique period of history for France, when they moved away from the Gregorian calendar utilised by the rest of the world […]
French Words I Have Learned This Week – 22/08/2015
There was quite an array of vocab in my dictionary-check notebook when I looked at it this morning – I’ve got everything from terrorist attacks to circus skills. These are […]
Hidden Treasures: Palais de Justice
So it’s been quite a while since I wrote a ‘Hidden Treasures’ post. I’ve been so busy recently I’ve just about managed to type up my vocab lists but I’ve […]
French Words I Learned This Week – 25/07/2015
With everything going on at the moment – the book, the day job, the new commitment to weekly blogging (which happens more in my mind than it does on my […]
French Words I Learned This Week – 27/06/2015
It feels like summer has finally arrived and I couldn’t be happier about it. There is nothing I enjoy more than sitting outside a café, reading, writing, eating… Ah, June, […]
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