After your shopping lesson at Darty, explore the nearby neighborhood with a French lesson at the Eglise de la Madeleine. Click to listen to the French lesson! Location: Place de la Madeleine Transportation:Â metros lines 8, 12, and 14 at Madeleine Hours: Open 8:30am to 6pm Admission fees: free Website: http://www.eglise-lamadeleine.com/ The location has been […]
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A private French class at Darty, one of the biggest appliance stores in Paris Click to listen to the French lesson! Many people dream of owning a small pied-Ã -terre in Paris. A small and charming apartment with a view of the Eiffel Tower where every morning you can sip coffee and eat fresh bread smothered
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After what has felt like the rainiest Spring ever, the sun is finally out and the weather people are promising it will stay this way for a couple more days. Here’s some ideas to help you plan your weekend in Paris (and work on your French). The Rose Garden at the Parc de Bagatelle: After
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Click to hear the French garden vocabulary! Gardening and The Grand Palais We’re pleased to welcome Clémence Dangles from the Paris Creators Studio as a guest blogger. The Paris Creators Studio offers a selection of unusual and inventive classes for English speaking Parisians and English speaking tourists.  It’s spring time (not joking…) and what most
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It is fun, practical, and easy to see Paris by bike! Click to learn new French vocab! Can you write the words you hear in French? Vélib’ is the biggest public bicycle sharing system in the world. Run by the Paris Town Hall since 2007, the system has over 20,000 bikes at 1,800 stations around
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Great places to take teens visiting Paris! We’re sure even the most sulky teenager would have fun practicing French while “breathing in chocolate.” Here’s a few addresses to save for visiting Paris with a teenager. Have you heard about these prepaid SIM cards specifically for non-French speaking tourists? Now you have no excuse for not
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Did you know you could be watching the Roland Garros Tennis Grand Slam in the square in front of the Hôtel de Ville? From today, May 30th until Sunday, June 9th between 12pm and 7pm the matches will be projected on giant screens in the Paris 4th. Watch the best matches for free while still
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Marguerite Monnier, the founder of French As You Like It, recently wrote a second guest post for Paris Perfect. She shared another of her favorite places to give a French lesson, Jardin du Musée Rodin in Paris. If you are visiting Paris and looking for ideas of fun things to do, why not practice your
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You have a hardly used copy of the Bescherelle (or another verb conjugation book) sitting on your bookshelf and you keep promised yourself, tomorrow I will study those French verbs seriously. We know it is hard to be motivated by the imparfait or future simple, but it is important to do. To help motivate you,
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Reading French books is a wonderful way to improve your French and to begin to understand the culture.  While reading Les Misérables or Les Plaisirs et les Jours in the original French is a noble undertaking, there are other classics that may be easier to start with first. Whether you are beginning to learn French
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Open to hear a description of the Petit Palais in French and then read the full-text with highlighted vocabulary below: French Lesson at Le Petit Palais Location: Avenue Winston Churchill Transportation: metros lines 1 and 13 at Champs-Elysées Clémenceau Hours: Open 10am to 6pm (ticket office closes at 5pm) Tuesday through Sunday Admission fees: free
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Open to hear a description of the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris in French and then read the full-text with highlighted vocabulary below. Location: 1, place du Parvis Notre-DamePublic Transportation: metros line 4 at Cité or line 1, 4, 7, 11, or 14 at Chatlet Hours: Open twenty-four hours everyday, but be respectful that this is a
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Marguerite Monnier, the founder of French As You Like It, was recently a guest blogger on Paris Perfect. She shared one of her favorite places to give a French lesson, Les Grands Magasins. Starting from the Deli-cieux open air café/restaurant at the top of the Printemps (7th floor of the maison et beauté section) to
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You plan the perfect vacation to Paris, and then on the second afternoon, you twist your ankle getting off the bus. Or you’ve just relocated to Paris, barely know a soul, and your child wakes up with a high fever. What do you do? Don’t panic. Just make sure you know where to find a
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Hear the sounds in French (opens with QuickTime Player and Windows Media Player) You may already know that some animals make different noises in French (frogs go: côa côa; duck go: coin coin), but do you know that objects also make different sounds in French? Even you make different noises in French. Rather than going
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Improve your French: Click to hear a short text read on the Grands Magasins (opens with QuickTime Player and Windows Media Player Location: 40 and 64 Boulevard Haussman Public transportation: Line 7 and 9 at Chaussée d’Antin Lafayette Hours: Printemps is open Monday through Saturday from 9:30am to 8pm and are open until 9pm on
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Over 400 different kinds of cheeses are made in France, and cheese is a very important part of French culture. Traditionally, during a French dinner, cheese is served after the main course and before the dessert. You may notice that restaurants will often offer on the menu a plate of cheese in or just before
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Click to listen to the vocabulary lesson: Marché Saint-Pierre (opens with QuickTime Player and Windows Media Player). For those students looking for a real challenge, we encourage you to listen and try to write the text too. Location: The borders are the rues d’Orsel, Charles Nodier, Livingstone, Seveste, Pierre Picard and the place Saint-Pierre.
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Location: The borders of the neighborhood are the boulevard Auguste-Blanqui in the north, the rue Bobillot in the east, the rue Tolbiac in the south, and the rue Vergniaud in the west. Public transportation: The Place d’Italie metro station on line 5, 6, and 7. Website: www.butteauxcailles.com The Butte-aux-Cailles in the Paris 13th arrondissement literally
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French culture can feel very formal at times to Anglophones. To help you avoid seeming rude or feeling uncomfortable, here are five places in France where you need to always say hello. Elevators If someone is in the elevator when you get on say bonjour to him or her and as people get on or
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