It's freezing cold - French Expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Vocabulary Lists What does the French expression 'un froid de canard' mean? What does it sound like? How is it used in a sentence? Listen to Anne. As the weather is getting colder and colder in France, I was thinking of that funny expression: un froid de canard. Literally, a cold of duck, a duck's cold. un froid de canard means that it's freezing cold. I think the expression comes from hunting ducks in the fall, when hunters stand in freezing waters for extended periods of time and they get frozen to the bones. un froid de canard ..read more

at dusk – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Practice French Expressions What does the French expression ‘entre chien et loup’ mean? How is it used in a sentence? Listen to Anne. entre chien et loup – between dog and wolf. entre chien et loup means ‘at dusk’, ‘at twilight’. It describes that hour when it’s difficult to see well, between day and night, when you can’t really see if you’re looking at a dog or at a wolf. entre chien et loup is used a lot when talking about driving. « Ne conduis pas trop vite ce soir, on est entre chien et lo ..read more

to make a mistake – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Reflexive Verbs – List se tromper – oneself to mislead. se tromper means ‘to make a mistake’. « Oh là là ! Je me suis trompé. Elle m’avait donné rendez-vous dans le VIème, mais comme elle avait écrit son message avec un chiffre romain, j’ai inversé et je suis allée dans le IVème. » ‘Oh dear ! I made a mistake. She had given me a meeting point in the sixth arrondissement, but because she wrote her message with a Roman numeral, I switched the numbers and I went to the fourth arrondissement.’  Next ..read more

what a disaster – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Strike and Protest Terms – Today’s French What does ” bonjour les dégâts ” mean? How do you say ‘ what a disaster ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com. bonjour les dégâts – hello the damages – In everyday French, bonjour les dégâtsmeans ‘what a disaster’. « Regarde cet arrêt de bus détruit après la manif. Bonjour les dégâts ! » “Look at the this destroyed bus stop after the demonstration. What a disaster!”  Next ..read more

Going to the Cannes Film Festival – Today’s Advanced French Part of Theme Courses| Le Festival de Cannes In this lesson, you’ll learn how to talk about movies in French. France has to go to the Cannes movie Festival, in the South of France to interview a movie director. She is taking advantage of a long weekend. Elle fait le pont “She makes the bridge”. She uses a lot of colloquial expressions in French that you can use later. France veut aller au Festival de Cannes, dans le sud de la France, pour interviewer un réalisateur. Elle profite du long week-end. Elle fait le ..read more

to go over the top – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | Le Festival de Cannes faire son cinéma – to do one’s movies. In everyday French, faire son cinéma means to be dramatic, to be over the top about something, to draw the attention onto oneself, to be a ham, to ham it up. There is another word that means the same thing. It’s cabotiner. I love cabotiner. It feels like it’s coming from old times, and as a result, it’s not very used any more. However, faire son cinéma is. « Je vais pas lui demander car elle va encore faire son cinéma, co ..read more

Activités du 14 juillet Part of Holidays Courses | Bastille Day Find out what the French do on Bastille Day On aurait envie de dire « Bon 14 juillet», mais ça ne se dit pas. En fait, on ne dit rien. Alors, qu’est-ce qu’on fait le 14 juillet en France ? On regarde le grand défilé des armées à la télé, on fait un pique-nique avec la famille et les amis, on va à la pêche à l’étang communal, on va au bal et on admire le feu d’artifice, le soir. We’d like to say “Happy Bastille Day”, but we don’t say it. In fact, we say nothing. So, what do we do on July 14 in France? We watch the G ..read more

Au Cinéma – Vocabulaire – Le français d’aujourd’hui Part of 5 minutes of French a Day | Le Festival de Cannes How do you talk about the movies in French? Learn French with me at FrenchHour.com. Print this worksheet. Mini List 10 first words to learn to talk about the movies in French actor …. m …. comédien, acteur actress …. f …. comédienne, actrice audience …. m …. public award, prize …. m …. prix cartoonist …. m …. dessinateur character …. m …. personnage chick flick …. m …. film à l’eau de rose, pour nanas classic …. m …. (grand) classique comedian …. m/f …. comique comedy ..read more

La rando – Vocabulaire Part of Vocabulary | Sports Je fais une rando sur le sentier GR 20, en Corse cet été. I’m going on a hike on the GR20 trail, in Corsica this summer. Learn French vocabulary about hiking and practice your newly acquired terms about trekking with 2 exercises. Get the answers immediately. backpack …. m …. sac à dos drinkable water …. f …. eau potable hike …. f …. randonnée, rando hiking shoe …. f …. chaussure de marche pocket knife …. m …. canif shelter, mountain refuge …. m …. refuge sleeping bag …. m …. duvet, sac de couchage tent …. f …. tente to hike ..read more

things behind you – French expression Part of Mots Du Jour | La Covid What does ” tourner la page ” mean? How do you say ‘ to put things behind you ’ in French? How is it pronounced? How is it used in a French sentence? Listen to Anne, a French native say it at FrenchHour.com tourner la page – to turn the page. In everyday French, tourner la page means ‘to make a fresh start’, to put things behind you’. « Je ne sais pas comment on va pouvoir tourner la page après la covid. » “I don’t know how we will be able to put things behind us after the pandemic.” – Use th ..read more