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French La Toussaint: A fall celebration
Halloween has a long convoluted history of the tradition evolving quite a bit until it reached the commercial holiday it is today. The traditions date back to many catholic and pagan holidays as much as many countries like France and Mexico prefer to ignore that fact. La Toussaint or All Saints day is celebrated instead…
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French Halloween Songs to practice Joyeux Halloween Chansons pour pratiquer
It’s been difficult trying to find a Halloween themed French Friday post since Halloween is not really popular in France. However I was able to find some french halloween songs. The songs were all made for french learners since there appears to be no real halloween songs but that doesn’t mean they’re bad, in fact…
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French Animaniacs Songs and Lyrics to practice
Animaniacs was a great cartoon in the 90s which also had a ton of educational songs through out it which were fun since they were so catchy. Luckily they were translated in various languages including French and for anyone trying to learn french like me they are perfect since they get to teach you a…
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French Progress #2
For today’s French Friday I thought I’d give a quick update on how I’ve been feeling about the project and it’s not good. Since the last update things have only taken a turn for the worse as I haven’t felt this unmotivated in a long time to continue learning french, not to dissimilar from the…
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Learning French with the Simpsons
The Simpsons have always taken shots at the French so I thought it’d be neat to compile a few clips from various Simpsons episodes and share them. I’ve always wondered how the French translate these jokes, obviously the jokes are tongue in cheek. From the time that Bart learns to speak French to the time…
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Twitter Français : French Accounts to Follow to Practice French
Reading tweets in French can really be helpful in the learning progress, or at least that’s what I’ve been able to tell with me personally. It helps that there is a built in translator to help you out when you don’t understand so you can just click when you’re overwhelmed by a tweet. I already…
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French Teacher Experiences: The Importance of a Professor
Learning a language without a teacher can be extremely difficult; now I don’t doubt that there are people who can do it but not everyone is autodidact and that’s alright. While I can teach myself many things through the internet I do feel a teacher has helped me improve my French and force me to…