Le mauvais temps: Weather Vocabulary

Le mauvais temps

The autumn has been here for some time now and the weather it has brought inspired me to post some interesting expressions related to (not so nice) weather.

Check how well you know the French expressions related to bad weather.  Some of them are similar to the English ones, others are a bit funny and surprising. How many of them do You know ?

French Art, Painting and Museum Vocabulary and Sentences

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French Art and Museums

One of the reasons people visit France, especially Paris, is because of the art and culture. The city is one the world’s leading cultural centers among other things.

It is home to many museums and cultural attractions such as the Louvre, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Musée Cluny and Musée d’Orsay or Musée Picasso just name the most famous ones.

But visiting all these magnificent places without the slightest knowledge of French can be dull. Wouldn’t it be great to get more from your visit to the Louvre for example if you could exchange in French a little with another tourist or a guide about a particular work of art ?

 

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At The University: Looking For A Room

5 Minutes of French is a nice and short French lesson that can be done under 5 minutes. Its purpose is to make the French language learning fast and effective. The 5 minutes of French covers only the most useful and pragmatic vocabulary, grammar and everyday French expressions significant to any beginner of intermediate learner of French. Now you have no excuse not to learn French !

Dialogue

A l'université: demander des renseignements

– Bonjour. Excuse-moi. Je suis nouveau ici. Où se trouve la salle numéro 215 ?

– Elle est au premier étage, au fond du couloir.

– Merci. 

– De rien

Exercises

 

French Vocabulary to Study in France 1

Sorbonne University, Paris

If you want to study in France as an international student, you will need to know some specific words and expressions related to schooluniversity and education in general.

You will find these useful whether you are on a study abroad French language program or just as a regular student at the French University or Grande Ecole. Here is the first part in the series related to studying in France

Study in France Vocabulary 

  French English
1 to enrol in a university s'inscrire dans une université
2 enrolment l'inscription (fem.)
3 a student card une carte d'étudiant
4 an undergraduate un(e) étudiant(e) de premier cycle
5 a fresher / a freshman un(e) étudiant(e) de première année
6 a postgraduate student un(e) étudiant(e) de troisième cycle
7 the academic year l'année universitaire (fem.)
8 a lecture une conférence
9 a lecture hall un amphitéâtre / un amphi (famlier)
10 a B.A. degree une licence de lettres

Exercises

Exercise 1: easy

Part 1: 

 

Part 2: 

Exercise 2: 

This year I'm going to enrol to the French university.
The enrolment to the university has been closed.
Do you have a student card ?
I'm an undergraduate student.
Lots of freshmen students are of foreign origin.
The postgraduate students are few.
The academic year has just begun.
It was a really interesting lecture.
All lectures are held in the lecture hall F.
I have a B.A in Modern Literature.

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