France Tales

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A fellow language teacher sent me this verb conjugations video. I was expecting some useful but dry video about verb conjugations and who knows what else, maybe even a video I could use in class. Although the video is useless to me as a teacher I did laugh and found myself singing the song by [...]

I can’t figure out this site, Video Site,where it comes from because none of the links work, but it is funny. It is a video that cautions you against the dangers associated with not voting. The thing is, you can go to the site and enter your friends first and last names and the names [...]

Recently we were walking around a neighborhood known as Place St Georges. There is usually a market there each day. It was Saturday and there were many people milling about, which was not out of the ordinary. As we got closer it was clearly bigger than the usual market. In each booth was a different [...]

Suzanne Vega played at a local club called the Bikini in Toulouse. Jean-Jacques, Natasha, Eva, and I went to see her play. Suzanne Vega played all the hits but she also played many songs from her new album. The new songs were quite good but very different. The new songs are less pop and more [...]

France’s favorite unorthodox nun died recently. She had quite divergent political views from the Roman Catholic church. Soeur Emmanuelle supported things like contraception and allowing priests to get married. She spent a large part of her life with the poor in Egypt, for this reason Soeur Emmanuelle is often compared to Mother Theresa. Below is [...]

Un projet d’accord sur la prolongation de la présence militaire américaine en Irak divise Washington et Bagdad.