Is Ilini the Best Way to Learn French with Videos?
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The ultimate guide to French colors (and their pronunciation)
The colors in French seem like an easy thing to learn. After all, it’s just vocabulary to memorize, right? Pas tout à fait (Not exactly). The mos...
The Seine in Paris and Beyond
Whether you’ve been to Paris, are planning to go, or are just an armchair traveler, you know the Seine, the main river in Paris. It’s the river th...
Why the French really say Oh là là (and how to use it correctly)
If you ask the average person what they can say in French, there’s a good chance they’ll tell you “Oh là là”. It’s a phrase that’s even more iconic...
FluentU Review: Learn French With Videos
There are so many ways to learn and practice a foreign language today. One of the easiest is by using an online language learning platform. Langu...
The Best Short Stories to Improve Your French (And Where to Read Them for Free)
One of the best French teachers I ever had was a charming criminal. After several years of learning French, I started reading French stories and b...
How to say “beautiful” in French? Here’s the bizarre answer!
19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire once wrote Le beau est toujours bizarre. (The beautiful is always bizarre). Although he wasn’t talking ...
Poisson d’avril ! Why the French say “April Fish” instead of “April Fool’s”
Here’s some great news for French learners: The Académie Française recently announced that French words will no longer be gendered! …Poisson d’avr...
10 Strange Habits and Customs You Might Learn Living in France
Whether you’ve stayed in France for a long vacation, as part of a study abroad program, internship, or short-term job, or whether you’re making you...
How Language Learning Helped Me Fight Depression
Travel to a foreign land. Seduce the girl. Business expansion. Though there are countless reasons as to why people decide to learn a foreign langu...
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