When you’re an English speaker learning French, one of the best surprises is how many words are cognates—words that look and ...

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 ...

First used in English around the turn of the 19th century, to do something à contre-coeur is to do it reluctantly, or against your will or better judgment; it literally means “against your heart.” A ...

Sacred monsters, when prégnant doesn’t mean pregnant, old-fashioned words that are back in style, and why the French occasionally drown fish - here are our favourite French words of the Day. Every day ...