As the days get shorter and the air colder, its time to move your French lessons inside. But where should we meet? Go ahead and stand in line to go up the Eiffel Tower with your friends. The view is gorgeous and it is an experience not to be missed, but up there it is […]
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At French As You Like It, we are lucky enough to work with all sorts of interesting individuals with all different levels of French. From the professional singer who wants to perfect her accent to the traveling spouse who has just moved to France, we love the challenge of creating French lessons for everyone. Whether
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Paris is our classroom! Call or contact us to organize lessons at the Jardin des Tuileries and other parks around Paris. Autumn arrived early in Paris this year. The leaves on the trees are already changing colors, the days are getting shorter, and the weather has already started to cool. Before winter arrives and our
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Tucked away in the Paris 3rd is one of the coolest and most underrated museums in Paris, Le musée des Arts et Métiers. The museum was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions and is now home to over 80,000 instruments and machines that date back to
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Everyone knows that a French apartment isn’t complete without geranium gushing from the windows boxes. Your French tutor has held your hand as you’ve bought new appliances for and hung pictures in your dream French apartment. Let us now take a stroll through the Marché aux Fleurs to purchase some houseplants and the great thing
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Click to listen to the French lesson on the Hôtel de Ville. Location: 29 Rue de Rivoli, 75004 Paris, France Transportation: metros lines 1 and 11 at Hôtel de Ville Hours: Open 8:30am to 5pm Mon, Tues, Wed, and Fri; 8am to 7:30pm Thurs; 8:30 to 5pm Sat and closed Sun (reservations required one week
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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: 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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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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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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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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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 list of French emergency
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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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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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A friend once told me about a dream (or maybe a nightmare) she had after living in France and studying French for a few months. She was a contestant on a television game show with a live audience. The host kept presenting people to her and the question was should she use “vous” or “tu”
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Cursing in a foreign language can feel weird and really hard to do. At the same time there are those moments in life when it is a useful and necessary skill to have. To build up you French skills, it may be best to start at the beginning as a French person would have. Here
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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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