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The French Language Unbound: A Brief Look at Slang, Verlan, and Other Idiomatic Quirks…

Argot, Culture, Jeu de mots, Locution, Vocabulaire

When Urbain apologizes to the “vegans” at the Montreux Festival, only to end up declaring his love for the French language, you really have to master a language quite different from the one taught in our classrooms, and yet his lexical liberties and colloquialisms are quite common and perfectly understandable to the majority of native […]

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How can you quickly improve your scores on exams like the DELF, DALF, TEF, and TCF?

Apprentissage du français, Examen, Grammaire, Immersion linguistique, Langue française, Locution, Non classé, Oral, Séjour linguistique, TEF-CANADA, Vocabulaire

An immersion program allows you to develop a schedule of activities specifically tailored to the exam requirements. Thus, preparing for the exams in France just before taking them allows for much better focus on the goal in a highly conducive environment. For example, the TCF Canada consists of 4 mandatory sections assessing general French language

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How can you quickly improve your scores on exams like the DELF, DALF, TEF, and TCF?

Apprentissage du français, Examen, Grammaire, Immersion linguistique, Langue française, Locution, Non classé, Oral, Séjour linguistique, TEF-CANADA, Vocabulaire

An immersion program allows you to develop a schedule of activities specifically tailored to the exam requirements. Thus, preparing for the exams in France right before taking them allows for much better focus on the goal in a highly conducive environment. For example, the TCF Canada consists of 4 mandatory sections assessing general French language

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Pronunciation exercise using the "shadowing" method (Level C1-C2)

Acquisition du langage, Apprentissage du français, C1-C2, Développement de l'apprentissage, Examen, Figure de style, Langue française, Vocabulaire

Based on an excerpt from Guy de Maupassant's novel "Bel-Ami." TEACHING STRATEGY: The primary objective is to have students read aloud using the "shadowing" method in order to achieve the best possible pronunciation while maintaining the proper intonation and respecting the punctuation, which is very significant here. Each paragraph will then be used to look

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