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Want to learn French?
Hi. This is a commercial site, but they have some fun resources if you’re learning French. On the left side of the screen, scroll down to Language and there is a "word of the day" and various games and quizzes that you can use without buying anything. You can subscribe to the word of the day and they e-mail a different word to you each day. Once you learn all the words, just unsubscribe. I made my own little dictionary when I first tried it, just copied and pasted into a word processing document.
http://www.transparent.com/
Have fun.
7 Read MoreSeeking a Mature French Male Penpal
Hello,
I am looking for a mature French male penpal; maybe good friends.
I am a professional black woman and lives in the U.S.A. I enjoy reading, aerobics, antiques, travel, and meeting people of all cultures.
I plan to vist Paris in autumn and would like to learn more about your culture. I am challenging myself to a class of the French language over the summer. Wish me Luck!
Please respond by e-mail: eyvonne_rice2000@yahoo.com
0 Read MoreSeeking a Mature Frenchman
I am looking for a mature French male penpal; maybe good friends.
I am a professional black female and lives in the U.S.A. I enjoy reading, aerobics, antiques, travel, and meeting people of all cultures.
I plan to visit Paris in autumn and would like to learn more about your culture. I am challenging myself to a class of the French languange over the summer. Wish me Luck!
Please respond by e-mail: eyvonne_rice2000@yahoo.com
0 Read MoreFrench strike threat over Cannes film festival
STRIKING showbusiness workers in France have threatened to disrupt next month’s Cannes film festival.
The film industry website Screen Daily has said that a group representing the workers has planned an “occupation committee” for the 57th festival.
0 Read MorePicasso sought French citizenship
Spanish artist Pablo Picasso applied for French citizenship just before German troops invaded France in 1940, but was turned down because police saw him as a Communist sympathiser, a new exhibition shows.
Picasso’s brief letter of application, featuring his instantly recognisable signature, is the highlight of an exhibition of 40 years of police surveillance of the celebrated artist, which opened at the Paris Police Museum on Tuesday.
The records, among hundreds of files stolen by the Nazis during World War Two and seized by the Russians in 1945, lay in KGB vaults in Moscow for decades before being returned to France in 2000.
0 Read MoreWill the proposed new AOC system simply be French grade inflation?
"The head of France’s appellation authority, René Renou, has called for a new quality standard in French wine, to stand above the current AOC system."
This is a quote from the news page of France.com. Check the link. Do you think this will cause the French wine equivalent of the grade inflation that has become rampant in the US school system?
Or . . . will it be easier to choose your wine when in France?
16 Read MoreCigarette Butler
i own a cigarette butler.. i guess in the old days they were used to discard cigarettes..
I have no idea what the value may be but could oyu give me and idea?
it is aluminum in perfect condition.
I can send you a photo if need be..thanks, beachgirl
Appellation boss calls for overhaul to French system
The head of France’s appellation authority, René Renou, has called for a new quality standard in French wine, to stand above the current AOC system.
The President of INAO (Institut National des Appellations d’Origines), speaking at a seminar at Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons in Oxfordshire, said he was proposing a wholesale revision of the laws which categorise French wine; the most sweeping changes since the system was introduced.
0 Read MoreFrance to close last coal mine — and two centuries of sooty history
France on Friday is to close the last of its coal mines, ending an industry that, after more than two centuries of toil and occasional tragedy, became doomed because of reliance on nuclear energy and cheaper competition abroad.
The excavation of a symbolic final block of the compressed black carbon from the La Houve mine near the eastern town of Creutzwald is to be a highly symbolic moment for the country and Europe on many levels, underlining personal, historic, social and economic and political transformations.
“We are worn out by years spent underground, without ever seeing the daylight, and for that we are happy to stop,” said one miner, Yves Cerati, who spent 24 of his 43 years in the depths of La Houve.
0 Read MoreOpinion: Good News & Bad News from France
In early March, while meeting with French officials in Libya, I suggested that if President Chirac wanted to repair the damage done to U.S.-French relations by French behavior last year, he might start by “putting a new face on French diplomacy.”
Just three weeks later, Chirac announced that he was replacing foreign minister Dominique de Villepin with the relatively unknown, but pro-American, Michel Barnier.
Known for his arrogance and love for grandstanding, Villepin was reviled in America for having sandbagged U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell at the United Nations last year, a disgraceful episode I have detailed in my new book, The French Betrayal of America.
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