​ Psst, if ​you'​d like to go straight to the list of French movies, then tap right here! Last week it was Fête du Cinéma for 3 days so me and my family decided to take advantage of the 4€ entrance fee and have a movie night. If you’ve never heard of this event and live in France then you should bookmark this link for next time as it happens once a year in June and most cinemas offer discounted movie tickets. ​We picked one of my favorite French directors, Cédric Klapisch, who released a new movie called Ce qui nous lie. This could be loosely translated to “what binds us toget ..read more

​ It’s 9 pm, you just finished washing the dishes and you’re staring at your laptop screen. You know what you should be doing. You had planned to review l'imparfait. Instead, you just stare at your screen wondering where to start. Also, you're thinking what’s the point in wasting time on that? After all, you keep on forgetting how to use the imparfait because you almost never use it when you talk to your French neighbors. Well I’m not there to discuss whether you should be learning the imparfait or not. I’d like to talk about why studying French sometimes feels so useless or boring. If you’r ..read more

First of all, this list of French bloggers was made with you in mind if you’re : Fascinated by or looking to learn the vocabulary for topics like travel, food, DIY, fashion, beauty or high-tech trends Used to spending your nights/weekends on English blogs and wouldn’t mind switching to some French bloggers Not used to reading in French and want to start with something reasonably short and easy to understand If you’re none of that, then you may prefer reading my suggestions for French newspapers & magazines. Last week a student of mine reminded me that not everyone is so confident yet ..read more

Before arriving in France, your dream was to visit all 13 regions of France at least once. But here you are, 2 months have passed and you still haven’t saved enough to go anywhere because things cost so much in France. Besides, you had all kinds of unexpected expenses in the end. So should you give up on your initial idea? Or perhaps travel to the closest regions to your home only? This is what I want to help you with today : below you’ll find a pretty complete list of online resources to help you spend as little as possible while having lots of great adventures in France, those are the tools ..read more

You know I get it, when you heard that you were going to France you got so excited that you started looking through loads of travel guides and writing down all the stuff you’ll want to visit and taste while you live in France. Totally normal, we’ve all done that at some point. The problem with that approach to making a bucket list for France is you probably won’t manage to do more than half of what you had dreamed of doing. When I move abroad, I personally don’t like making a bucket list the way you find them online. Here’s what I don’t like about the typical bucket list: It’s just a bunch of ..read more