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French kiss, French toast… Are they REALLY French?

Have you ever noticed how the English language uses the word French as an adjective, usually to describe something either ugly, perverted, disgusting or all of them at the same time? This looks like a plot against the frog-eat… against the Gallic people. It is time to shed some light on die hard clichés, nurtured […]
May 13, 2020
Suikoden 2 checklist: collectibles and missables

Update May 2020: I completely reworked the Suikoden 2 collectible checklist. The descriptions are clearer, the layout nicer and it all fits in 2 pages! I also corrected some typos, mainly names. Konami’s 1998 masterpiece Suikoden II is the RPG that gives me the warmest feeling of nostalgia. Decades later, it still feels great playing […]
May 12, 2020
Tour de France culinaire
French article
La terminologie gastronomique française s’exporte particulièrement bien : dans la plupart des langues étrangères, les noms de nos plats régionaux ne sont pas traduits, quand bien même ils sont massacrés d’un point de vue phonétique ! Même le mot « cuisine » (au sens de l’art culinaire) demeure tel quel en anglais, par exemple. Mais […]
April 24, 2020
Marketing, Business, Social Media… Jobs where you’re wanted for your language skills!

When you’re about to start college or university, the question of your professional future is an essential one. Of course, most of us pick something we are interested in, a subject we were good at in high school, that we feel attracted to, or simply that we have experienced before and want to get a […]
April 05, 2020
From Andouillette to Ratatouille

The area of Gastronomy contains many words from the French language. Not surprising, considering that France is often associated as the country of culinary art. Even the word cuisine is French! Speaking of which, French cuisine tends to be somewhat of a generic term for any specialty that, many of which come from very different […]
March 24, 2020
Top 10 tips to learn new words and remember them

Whether it is in a foreign language or in a specific lexical field of your own language, that you are not familiar with, it is hard to learn new words, especially in the long run. The scope of this article focuses on assimilating words in a foreign language, however you can use most of these […]
March 13, 2020
How Could Two Horses Change The Face Of the World?

Arguably the most loved and the most popular car of the past century, if not ever. She has been seen in many movies, mentioned in a myriad of books and remains the object of attention of several magazines and associations. She has been a best-seller in Europe, but also in Asia and in the Americas. […]
March 03, 2020
Breizh : langue régionale en péril ?
French article
Langue celtique parlée en Bretagne dans l’ouest de la France, le breton comptait en 2007 206 000 personnes le parlant. Vieille de 1 500 ans et sans brittophone monolingue depuis les années 1980, le breton est-il est phase de venir un langue morte? Oui et non. Certes, l’UNESCO reconnait le breton comme une langue étant […]
February 12, 2020
Whack a Sliotar!

Relatively unknown outside Ireland and Great-Britain, albeit over 2,000 years old, hurling – or Iománaíocht in Gaelic – is the third most popular sport in Ireland. It is hard to compare it to anything else for it is quite unique – and sometimes even dangerous! Hit without getting hit Clubs, helmets and a ball is […]
January 10, 2020
À coup de sliotar !
French article
Relativement méconnu en dehors de la Grande-Bretagne ou de l’Irlande, le hurling ou Iománaíocht en Gaélique, sport âgé de plus de 2 000 ans est le troisième sport en Irlande en terme de popularité. Il est difficile de le comparer à une autre activité sportive ; il est en effet unique de par sa pratique […]
January 03, 2020