Unlocking French language: simple advice for avoiding faux amis
The English-American word 'store' is simply 'magasin' in French, but the French word 'store' translates in to a window blind.
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11, 2013
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10, 2013
Unlocking French language: simple advice for avoiding faux amis
A preserve in French is un conservateur, not a préservatif – that means a condom!
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09, 2013
Unlocking French language: simple advice for avoiding faux amis
The English word bless would be bénir in French, whereas their word blesser is to injure.
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07, 2013
Unlocking French language: simple advice for avoiding faux amis – Part Three
Part three of our series on faux amis - these false friends will always be tricky for students of both French and English.
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06, 2013
Unlocking French language: simple advice for avoiding faux amis – Part Two
How good is your French? Not only do some words mean something totally different but the use of phrases and sentences too. We continue our journey into the confusing world of faux-amis.
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05, 2013
Unlocking French language: simple advice for avoiding faux amis – Part One
How good is your French? I do not, in fact, advocate fluency where fluency is not going to happen, and I always insist people try to not worry about it too much. As long as you get your message across it really doesn’t matter so very much.
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03, 2013
Unlocking French language: Faux amis et vrais amis
When an English-speaking person says they don’t speak French, they in fact use around 1500 French words without realising it.
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10, 2012
In a windswept field of western France…
At the edge of my village, I have frequently driven past a small stone monument. On it is a plaque dedicated to some French Resistance workers who were shot dead by the Germans during World War II in August 1943.
