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Jul
30
2012
'Grosse déception pour Adrian Mattenet. Le Français a été éliminé pour son entrée en lice face à l'Autrichien d'origine chinoise…'
'Huge disappointment for Adrian Mattenet. The Frenchman was eliminated after joining the fray against the Austrian of Chinese extraction, Weixing Chen…'
With the Olympics well under way in London, there is no shortage of sports-related vocabulary making the headlines.… Read More
Jul
16
2012
"Je suis désolé mais j'ai eu un empêchement de dernière minute."
"Sorry, but something has come up at the last minute."
In your 'Useful Expressions' list, one you will certainly want to put at the top of that list is avoir un empêchement.… Read More
Jul
10
2012
"Au Mexique, un vote s'achète pour une poignée de pesos"
"In Mexico, a vote can be bought for a handful of pesos"
Consider this headline from the news.… Read More
Jul
09
2012
Murray: "J'y crois encore"
... "I am continuing to believe."
The wait continues for Britain's Andy Murray to win his first Grand Slam title after his defeat in the Wimbledon final.… Read More
Jun
29
2012
'Voudrais-tu éteindre ton téléphone, s'il te plaît?…'
'Would you please turn off your phone?…'
More and more people seem to suffer from the modern-day 'affliction' of constantly composing text messages.… Read More
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Recent Lessons

Lesson no: 202, Level: Intermediate
One of our listeners asked that we would prepare a lesson with some gardening vocabulary and that’s what we did, over WhatsApp! We have lots of interesting vocabulary to learn – let’s start with a conversation.

Lesson no: 201, Level: Intermediate
La covid-19 : une crise inédite
Our conversation this time is about something which has been central to our lives around the world since the beginning of the year. We are speaking, of course, about the coronavirus pandemic.

Lesson no: 200, Level: Intermediate
The subject of this, our 200th lesson!, is the opioid crisis in the U.S. which has reached quite shocking proportions. How did it come to this? Let’s start with a conversation.

Lesson no: 199, Level: Intermediate
Les ‘décroissants’, c’est qui?
Our conversation this time focuses on people who are referred to as ’les décroissants’. But who exactly are ‘les décroissants’? To find out, let’s start with a conversation.

Lesson no: 198, Level: Intermediate
One of our listeners was taking up a position as a teacher in a pre-school in France and asked if we would put together some expressions and vocabulary that might be used in a dialogue between the teacher and a parent. Let’s consider one such conversation.