une voyoucratie
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Current Events
Current Events and News
Actualité et informations
French resources related to current and historical events. Also see useful vocabulary:
And sports and newspapers/magazines.
Passer à l’heure d’été
News
La rentrée
La rentrée is one of the biggest events of the French year. In many countries, early September is end-of-summer-break-and-back-to-school time, but in France it's so much more than that. Here's everything you need to know about la rentrée with Lawless French à fond.
Bastille Day à fond
This issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at the French national holiday and explains everything you could possibly want to know about the celebration of Bastille Day.Passer à l’heure d’hiver
Paralympics
Olympics
Chassé-croisé des juillettistes et des aoûtiens
bissextile
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Salon international de l’Agriculture à Paris
Reporting Verbs
Sometimes it's necessary for person A to tell person B what person C said. This phenomenon, known as reported speech, is often done with the help of a reporting verb. Here are the most common French reporting verbs with links to conjugation tables. Holidays
France has 11 public holidays (bank holidays), known as jours fériés, jours chômés, fêtes chômées, or fêtes légales. un gilet
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À la une
Jouer is a regular -er French verb that can be a bit confusing when it comes time to decide which preposition should follow. Here's everything you need to know.
The French lessons and comprehension exercises on this site are ranked according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), which describes six levels of language proficiency.
When a word ending in a normally silent consonant is followed by a vowel or h muet, that consonant might be transferred onto the next word. This is called a liaison and it's one of the aspects of French pronunciation that can make it difficult to determine where one word ends and the next begins.