When you’re an English speaker learning French, one of the best surprises is how many words are cognates—words that look and sound similar in both English and French, and have the same meaning. A few ...

Yes it's a musical instrument and a Champagne glass - but there is a third, much more colloquial, way to use this French word that is more likely to come in handy in everyday life. Flûte - roughly ...

Why do I need to know déception? Because understanding the difference between this word in French and English might help you make sense of why a seemingly honest person would be described as ...

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 ...