Locals will quickly warm to travelers who at least make an effort to speak their language. Whether it's saying "bonjour" when you enter a shop or ordering politely in a café, the French will take note ...

Learn some essential French vocabulary! This video teaches you how to say baguette, croissant, and éclair in French.

In its 2025 edition, the French encyclopedic dictionary Larousse highlights stars like Beyoncé and LeBron James among 150 new words. Anyone who has listened to Beyoncé’s “Partition” has heard the ...

What keeps Vermonters from venturing to Québec more often? Whether they admit it or not, for most Anglophones, it’s the official language of: French, aka français — and not the kind you learned in ...

This is becoming a buzz word in French cities, but has nothing to do with vegetables. Végétalisation - roughly pronounced vay-jay-tah-li-za-shun - is one of those words that doesn't have a perfect ...

Jake Lamar lives in Paris and writes novels. This linguistic difference can lead to some curious misunderstandings. I've met French admirers of American literature who are shocked when reading works ...