"Le rire est notre meilleure aile ; il nous soutient quand nous tombons."
Victor Hugo

(laughter is our best wing: it holds us when we are falling)

Possessive adjectives in French depend on the person who is talking, and then agree with the object: they agree with the possessee - not the possessor.

In other words, if I am talking, it does not matter whether I am a girl or a boy, what matters is the gender and number of what comes after the possessive.

Je voudrais vous parler de ma ville, Bayonne, mais par où commencer ?

D'abord, c'est où ?

Bayonne est située au sud-ouest de la France, proche de l'Océan Atlantique (5km), de l'Espagne (24km), et des Pyrénées, chaîne de montagnes nous séparant de l'Espagne.
C'est la plus grande ville du Pays Basque français.

A "poisson d'avril" is a joke made on April 1st. In France, children try to stick a fish picture on their friends' back. When the joke is discovered, they shout "poisson d'avril !"

Today, I am going to tell "Toto" jokes. These are very popular jokes among elementary school children, and there are thousands of them. They also have been part of the French culture for a while. "Toto" is a young school boy, an impertinent dunce, who talks back and is lazy but usually not mean - I believe his name would be "Little Johnny" in English. Most jokes evolve around school, homeowk, talking back to adults and are very short and use colloquial language.

Devinettes

Quelle est la ville la plus vieille du monde?
Réponse: Milan.

What is the oldest city in the world?
Answer: Milan (sounds like "mille ans": a thousand year)

I am happy to welcome Myriam to our team of writters. Myriam is a French teacher who offers immersion stays at her cozy house of Pays Basque, South West of France. She is going to tell us about her beautiful region, and make us travel in pictures!

Une excursion agréable même en hiver : la dune du Pyla …

Je propose aux étudiants qui restent longtemps, 3 semaines et plus, d’aller sur la côte des Landes puis jusqu’à la dune du Pyla.

Lots of students seem to believe that watching French movies is a great way to improve their French. It can be so, but only if you have the appropriate level of French, and you are ready to "work" with the movie, not just casually watch it with the English subtitles on.

Leyla loooooves our French jokes and puns series, so much indeed that she wanted to record her own: here you go (elle est trop mignonne)... Enjoy!

Many beginner and intermediate students are looking for French movies easy enough to understand. It's quite a challenge, so I asked my students and ex-students to help me put together me a list of French films they found easier to understand, and these were the most popular results.