Learn French Online For Free?

Learn French online for free? A little while ago I did a post talking about ways to learn French for free (you can read it here) but I’ve always been of the opinion that although you can START to learn French online for free,  eventually you’ll have to put your hand in your purse or [...]

French Numbers - Thy're Not Really Out To Get You!

Have you tried French numbers yet? I don’t mean the easy one, two, three stuff, I mean getting above seventy – which actually doesn’t exist in French!

Un, deux, trois, by the way. One, two three, just in case…

Anyway, French numbers. We’re pretty safe with a direct translation up to seventy, except twenty one, thirty one, [...]

Why Learn French?

Around 16 million French people actually speak some English – not to mention the hundreds of thousands of ex-pats who do. So why learn French? You can probably get by without it.

You probably can. I know people who live here who can’t speak a word of French. I don’t spend a lot of time with [...]

Learning French

If there’s one thing that makes me growly about living in France it’s the number of ex-pats who make no attempt to learnt the French language.

I don’t mean people visiting France on vacation, you’ll get by fine in most places (although a bit of French will help no end), I mean people who come to [...]