The purpose of today’s lesson is to dispel some confusion over how to say “to visit” in French. Here’s the rule: The verb visiter is used for visiting places and rendre visite à is used for visiting people. For example, je visite Paris (I visit Paris) and je rends visite à mon ami (I visit …
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In today’s lesson, we’ll learn how to ask: “What does _ mean?” in French. The phrase used is Que veut dire. For example, Que veut dire «pomme»? (What does pomme mean?). While this might look slighly daunting and complicated at first, it is not. Let’s jump right into the lesson! Que veut dire ? What …
Ce n’est qu’un au revoir (Meaning: It’s just a goodbye, Till we meet again) is the title of the French version of Auld Lang Syne. This song is sung both in English and French at the stroke of midnight at the near year. The post provides an English translation of the French lyrics, as well …
In today’s lesson we’ll have a look at how to say toward or towards in French. We’ll actually look at two words in this post: vers and envers. The general rule is that vers is used for towards a place or around a time and envers is used for people. Let’s jump right into the …
Today’s lesson covers a slighly more advanced word which commonly causes some confusion among students: ainsi. This word has several meanings including like this, in this way and thus. We’ll also look at the conjunction ainsi que (as well as, just as). ainsi like this, in this way
