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Words In The (French) News: “Dans les trois mois”
Today’s expression comes from the paper 20 minutes: dans les trois mois The expression [ dans les /don lay/ + time span ] means within (the next)… or during the coming … For example: Nous...
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Word In The (French) News: relaxés
Today’s word comes from the French online paper La Montagne: Relaxés: In French, the verb relaxer /ruh lack say/ usually means to relax. However in legal jargon relaxer quelqu’un means to discharge...
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Word In The (French) News: “se démerder”
Today’s word comes from the online paper Métro: Se démerder Vocabulary: Se démerder /sday mair day/ is slang for to manage, to get by or again to sort it out. It comes from the French word for “sh…”:...
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Word In The (French) News: Racketter
The word in the French news is verb racketter /rah kette ay/. Do you recognize it? It comes from racketeering, and means the same thing, to extort money from someone. Click on image to get to the...
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Pains Au Chocolat, Anyone?
France’s Assemblée Nationale (National Assembly) just voted in favour of gay marriage. Now a law must be put in writing. Deputes started debating over the draft bill Saturday morning and continued...
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Words In The (French) News
Hi there! It’s been a while and I am sorry. Been sick, blah blah blah et patati et patata. So to make it up to you, here is a medley of words taken from today’s French newspapers headlines. First,...
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Reading Practice: Dicey Dancing
French newspapers are reporting a new trend in the Arab world. Dancing as a way of protest: In a move reminiscent of Hitler’s Swing Kids, youth in Egypt and Tunisia have started Ganman Stylin’ and...
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Word in the (French) News: Appli
Today’s word was seen in the online French newspaper 20 minutes: http://www.20minutes.fr appli /ah plee/ is the short form for logiciel applicatif (web application). In other words, it’s the French...
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Word In The (French) News: coûter
Coûter /koo tay/ means to cost, as in: Les petits dessins d’Annekahttp://www.anneka.fr/ . Combien ça coûte? /kom byehn sah coot/ (How much is it?) Ça coûte cher! /sah coot share/ (It’s expensive!) Ça...
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Word In The (French) News: ivre
Today’s word comes from the online French newspaper L’indépendant: ivre /eev ruh/means drunk. If that is too difficult to pronounce you may also use the adjective saoul /soo/ (masc.) or saoule /sool/...
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Vu dans les nouvelles: se venger
. Se venger means to take revenge. Let’s read this article together! . . Vocabulary: Prendre sa revanche sur… : to get one’s revenge towards… . . Vocabulary: se faire voler X : to have X stolen...
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Seen In The News: Drunken Elks
Des orignaux ivres forcent la police à intervenir Vocabulary: Un orignal, des orignaux: elk, elks ivre: drunk avoir dû: to have had to prêt, prêt: ready en découdre avec: to fight with se dérouler: to...
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In The News: Elle se fait pincer
Se faire pincer: to get caught. Review après avoir … I think we know where this is going … Twist: …Read the full story here.
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