Shake your head, laugh or just shrug! How can there be so many differences?
Le pain est aux Français ce que le thé est aux Anglais… À chaque pays ses stéréotypes, ses habitudes, ses atouts. Description de ceux qui font la renommée de la France.
De la France, ce dont je me souviens avec tendresse, ce sont les traditions familiales. En particulier, les longs repas de famille. Ces journées où nous réunissons les grands-parents, les oncles et tantes, les cousins, les arrière-cousins. Toutes ces générations si différentes et pourtant, si proches.
Is one particular nation better at raising children than another? Our francophile, francophone and French friends became involved in a Facebook discussion on this topic. Here is what some them had to say...
Très courant dans les pays anglo-saxons, l’uniforme n’est cependant pas imposé dans la plupart des pays européens. En France pourtant, l’établissement d’une tenue propre à chaque école ou collège ne serait pas forcément une mauvaise idée selon moi.
Some would say that you have to eat baguette on a daily basis, others that being cranky is the least a Frenchman can do. Be it as it may, the question is: Is it possible to become French? -- An open-ended debate... it's never too late to join in. Pensez-vous?
For the holidays, I created a realistic dialogue to introduce you to both the French traditions and precise vocabulary used in France around Christmas and the holidays. Pay close attention to the many uses of 'on'. Enjoy, and happy holidays!
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