Travel and Culture

Travel and Culture

Travel and cultureVoyage et culture

Learn about the many and varied cultures and countries that speak French.

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Reading Practice

Montpellier

Montpellier, France
La huitième ville française, Montpellier est aussi l'une des plus jeunes, en ce qui concerne la population.

   

Reading Practice

Montrol-Sénard, France

Montrol-Sénard
Montrol-Sénard (Haute-Vienne) est un petit village qui, avec la réhabilitation et restauration de plusieurs sites, a été transformé en un genre de musée qui évoque la vie rurale du début du XXe siècle.

   

Travel and Culture

Nationalities

Nationalities in French
Every country and continent has an adjective that can be used to describe people and things from that place. Those same adjectives can also be used as nouns to refer to people from that place, with one small change in French.

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Reading Practice

Nice, France

Baie des Anges, Nice
French reading comprehension: Nice est la cinquième plus grande ville française par sa population et elle accueille plus de 4 millions de touristes chaque année. Il y a beaucoup de raisons de visiter cette ville séduisante.

   

   

   

   

   

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Listening Practice

Pétanque

Pétanque - Boules
Listen and learn about that most French of pastimes: pétanque, a form of boules played all over France.

   

   

Travel and Culture

Politeness

French politeness
After bonjour, polite phrases like "please" and "thank you" are the most important French vocabulary you'll ever learn. When you visit France, knowing just these few phrases will go a long way, even if the very next thing you say is Parlez-vous anglais ?

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Listening Practice

Polynésie française

French Polynesia
La Polynésie française, qui signifie littéralement « îles nombreuses », est un pays d'outre-mer de la République française composé de cinq archipels fourmillant d'îles et d'atolls.