When you’re an English speaker learning French, one of the best surprises is how many words are cognates—words that look and sound similar in both English and French, and have the same meaning. A few ...

What keeps Vermonters from venturing to Québec more often? Whether they admit it or not, for most Anglophones, it’s the official language of: French, aka français — and not the kind you learned in ...

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Michael Laser Because my wife and I want to visit Paris, I started casually studying French, first with Pimsleur CDs from the ...

Looking for a word that sums up a rollercoaster of a year and perfectly encapsulates a particularly French feeling? Check out The Local's French Word of the Year ...