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 [...]
quoi [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
rel. pronoun, French
what
which
int. adv., French
what
interjection, French
you know
like (informal)
Now that you’ve learned that quoi means what, I’m going to totally through a wrench in the spokes. In does mean what in sentences like:
Tu fais quoi ce week-end? - What are you doing this weekend? [Audio clip: view full post [...]
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 [...]
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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.
