Antipodes

Quand un enfant rencontre un nouveau mot technique, il mémorise automatiquement son sens par le biais d'une association avec quelque cho...

If I understand correctly the title, there are three good reasons why you should binge-watch the Netflix series of the Gilmore Girls. I...

As a foreigner who has been speaking and writing French for many years, I've encountered two quite different kinds of problems. On the o...

Most of my personal writing of a creative kind (like this blog) is done in English. From time to time, though, I nevertheless have to produc...

There’s an uproar in France today among baccalauréat students because their English exam expected them to discuss the ways in which a certa...

Certain words and expressions in the glorious French language correspond, in my mind, to opposite extremes on the scale of beauty and ugline...

The great Jacques Brel (in my humble opinion, one of the most amazing French-language artists of all time) once created a song that was bas...

In a world dominated by English, it's rare for a French word to achieve stardom. Funnily enough, it's not even a striking word, mere...

Readers wishing to brush up on their knowledge of crude French language can take advantage of front-page stories that have been appearing ov...

When I first heard this silly riddle, long ago, I thought it was funny in a subtle way: QUESTION : What's the difference between a canar...

Often, I like to see how new words have come into existence. And sometimes, to understand a new word that appears to be modern— a neologism ...

In the category of pseudo-English words and punctuation used in France, this is one of my favorites. It's a sign for an industrial clean...

Commercial people in France are constantly using English words and expressions to identify their products, because they think it looks smart...

There's an ordinary French word that nobody, apparently, has ever bothered to translate into English: francophonie , meaning the existen...