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A fun interactive website for children to find out all about English and other languages.

Practise your language skills online for free and get help from native speakers.

Languedoc-Midi.info is an Anglophone business directory listing course providers in the Languedoc- Roussillon region in the South of France.

Learning a new language is always presented like a debate between companies that want to convince you their product is better, for that, you get the usual part where the users or so-called express their amazement and the progress they made thanks to a particular method. It is always fantastic and so easy.

A flyer for SoE that I gave out at an event in France a while ago.

School_Flyer_French7.pdf

Look for Programmes and then "Envoyé Spécial". You can watch this programme on the net. It is shown on France 2, the French channel every Thursday night, and you can watch it online too.

Interesting topics about the news, France or the world.

A must see if you want to learn new things and practice your French listening skills.

If you are interested in learning Spanish using this method, but prefer LIVE interaction with a teacher, check out my profile: www.schoolofeverything.com/martincosgrove

I just got back from visiting some friends in Lyon and I asked them to explain how to talk about friends versus boyfriends/girlfriends in French; something I've never been sure about.

In school I was taught that:

un ami - a male friend
une amie - a female friend
un petit ami - a boyfriend
une petite amie - a girlfriend

then there is the more casual vocabulary:

un copain - a male friend
une copine - a female friend

Merry Christmas in 7 languages

French: Joyeux Noël

German: Fröhliche Weihnachten

Russian: Счастливого Рождества! Schaslivovo Rozhdestva!

Italian: Buon Natale

Spanish: Feliz Navidad

Polish: Wesołych Świąt

Icelandic: Gleðileg Jól

Visit the languages section to learn a whole lot more. Bien.

I bought a few French films on DVD the other day, all from the fifties and sixties and all superb. I'd recommend them all:

Le Trou - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054407/

A prison break set in La Santé prison in Paris, most of the actors were not professionals.

Bob le Flambeur - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047892/

A casino heist. The main character Bob is a very suave, aging gambler.

Du rififi chez les hommes - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048021/
(also called just 'rififi')

A gangster film and another heist movie.

There is some great slang in these films too:

If anyone is interested, there is a language show on at Olympia in London today, tomorrow and Sunday, called the "language show" (logically enough).

It's free if you register in advance, else I think you can pay on the door on the day. I'm going to go and check it out.

http://www.thelanguageshow.co.uk/

Last night I went along to a French meetup event near Charing Cross and it was great.
There were at least 50 people there and a good mix of nationalities.
Everyone was very friendly and after a few hours of speaking moderately badly in French, I was worn out(!)

Definitely recommend this group if you want to practice your French over a glass of wine or two.

http://french.meetup.com/32/

There are various sites that allow you to watch the news in French online and I try and watch a bit whenever I can. If you are trying to learn a language, you definitely want to get as much exposure to it as possible and I think the news is a great way of doing that, even if you don't understand everything.

I've been learning French for many years now and one of the problems I have had is that there tend to be lots of resources available for beginners and conversely, if you are at an advanced level, you can watch French television online or buy French novels etc.

But if you are at an intermediate level like me then it can be a little tricky. The beginner stuff you already know, but you're not quite ready for the advanced stuff.