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

French is a richly creative and poetic language, which is why so many people love it. But it also has a lot of words and phrases that absolutely do not mean what they appear to. Here are some of the ...

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 ...