Food is a huge part of the tourist industry in France, and critics come from around the world to put chefs to the test and write reviews for high-end magazine. You don’t have to be a foodie, however, to enjoy well-made French food, and you don’t have to be wildly adventurous to sample some [...]

Films are an integral art of French culture. France is famous for festivals, most notably the one at Cannes, and for producing edgy movies that are subtitled or dubbed to be replayed around the world.
If you happen to be in the right place at the right time to check out a film festival in [...]

In the States, May Day means classrooms full of elementary school students simultaneously weaving paper baskets, constructing tissue-paper flowers to put inside, and (after school) placing the baskets on a doorstep, ringing the doorbell, and running away while leaving behind the home-made surprise.
This tradition of flower-giving began in France as a way of marking the [...]

I know, I know, April Fools’ Day was last week, but the French version is just too funny not to mention.
In France, April Fools’ Day is known as poisson d’avril, or the fish of April.
Where we’re more apt to employ whoopi cushions and plastic spiders, French youth have a different tradition: schoolchildren will stick a [...]

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 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, [...]

When ordering meals in a restaurant, you wouldn’t want to end up having a course which you would end up not eating later on.

Perhaps one of the easiest phrases to learn when studying any language is how to ask directions.

Saying goodbye in French actually has different variations, depending on what you mean.