Immerse yourself in insider stories & interviews – pick up valuable tips & advice on mastering the French language and living the French dream wherever you live…
Paris is Always Worth it – wherein a young writer begins to question just exactly what he’s doing in Paris – Part 2/3
Paris is always worth it but I was unmoored in Paris teaching English to bankers and insurance clerks.
Paris Is Always Worth It – Or, how a novelist might build a life in the City of Light – Part 1/3
Paris Is Always Worth It - Or, how a novelist might build a life in the City of Light is Part 1 of a (Brief) Parisian Autobiography by Samuél Lopez Barrantes
Announcement: The Postcard Exchange – inviting you to participate – constant updating
The Postcard Exchange: What fun - The MyFrenchLife Community is particpating in The Postcard Exchange - you too can join in.
Le Tignet – Life in our new village
Le Tignet: I vividly remember the first morning, the “coooo coooo co” of the tourterelles (turtledoves) to begin the day. Excitedly opening the wooden shutters, the first light revealed a magnificent sky, a canvas streaked with deep orange, yellow, and red feathery wisps behind the clouds.
How Learning French is like Learning to Ski — Part 2
Learning from your mistakes. This is easy enough to take when you just get a little ding and lose a heart from Duolingo, but sounding stupid while speaking to a real live person is another matter. It is without question my biggest weakness when learning a language.
How learning French is like learning to ski – Part 1
Learning French and learning to ski: they're the same really, or are they - ha!
WWII Female Agents Behind Enemy Lines – Part 1
Violette Szabo and other female agents were sent to France by F Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. F Section (French Section), part of SOE, set up as a clandestine organization “to set Europe ablaze”, as Winston Churchill once said.
Moving to France: a 5 suitcase adventure just two years ago
Moving to France: This trip was going to be interesting, a holiday & maybe a new life. It's been two years of work and living a familiar routine, the beach, beautiful home. Idyllic really but to grow you need to expand your horizons...
Great Women of France: 19th and 20th centuries – Part 3
Great Women of France: 20th century. Read about - Marie Curie, Simone de Beauvoir, Nadia Boulanger, Coco Chanel, Simone Veil
Moving to France: Lifelong Dreams & First Glimpses – Introducing La Ravanelle
Moving to France from Australia in your late forties, with your family, is not simple, let alone the prospect of becoming the custodians of an 18th-century bastide, the former summer home of a famous French writer.
