Jan
3
Bonne Année 2009
3. January 2009 - 10:00 | Add new comment
Bonne Année 2009,
Happy new year,
feliz ano nuevo ,
s novym godom,
etc
www.howfrench.com
- 50 reads
Nov
27
Residential courses in France
27. November 2008 - 12:00 | Add new comment
Latest news :
"Une nouvelle douche pour un bain linguistique"
(LOL!)
www.howfrench.com - residential courses
- 184 reads
Nov
27
immersion course in france - shower
27. November 2008 - 11:57 | Add new comment
Latest news :
"Une nouvelle douche pour un bain linguistique"
(LOL!)
www.howfrench.com - residential courses
- 196 reads
Nov
25
Christmas fair
25. November 2008 - 19:33 | Add new comment
The Christmas fair organised by the new business association "FAB-PO" last Sunday, was a success.
Next week, we'll have our next business meeting and will plan our participation to the Business fair in London in January.
This new venture seems very hopeful.
"L'union fait la force";
"Il faut se serrer les coudes"
- 270 reads
Nov
25
Koi d'9? schtroumpf
25. November 2008 - 19:27 | Add new comment
Je sens qu'on va schtroumpfer pendant le workshop de schtroumpf, le 17 décembre juste avant les fêtes de Schtroumpfs.
Ca nous remontera le schtroumpf .
- 225 reads
Nov
21
English Christmas fair -Sunday
21. November 2008 - 16:58 | Add new comment
Sunday 23 Nov 1pm to 6pm
Christmas Fair & MONSTER raffle
Where ?
Art Themis, between St Jean Pla de Corts & Ceret
(on the right hand side of the main road from St Jean Pla de Corts to Céret – look out for the huge ear!)
What?
Arts, designer clothes, wine tasting and sales, british hampers, Christmas cards, cakes, conversation café, Vide grenier stall, orginal kiddies pressies, face painting, pate a modelé, Santa’s grotto and much, much more
MONSTER raffle:
Mega prizes to be won: Original Paintings & art works, Weeks holidays, Wine, Tours, Weekend breaks, and lots of FAB P-O surprises
- 221 reads
Oct
25
French workshop - December Perpignan
25. October 2008 - 16:55 | Add new comment
Our last workshop in 2008 will be on Wednesday December 17th, just before Christmas, at Perpignan, from 9:30 to 12:30.
What topics would you like to talk about?
Price: 30 to 45 E per person depending on number of people
Deadline for inscription: December 10th
www.howfrench.com
- 193 reads
Oct
17
Coluche
17. October 2008 - 17:22 | Add new comment
Do you know COLUCHE?
A very famous and special person: a film about him is coming out this week
- 204 reads
Oct
17
financial crisis
17. October 2008 - 17:15 | Add new comment
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Today's workshop went very well. There 5 of us and 4 nationalities. We talked about the financial crisis in each other's country, we read this week font pages, we played "Il ou Elle?", we talked about Coluche, we had coffee with biscuits from catalunya and Brittany.
The next workshop is planned for the end of November. We'll probably talk about the presidential elections inthe USA, we'll discuss the French system; we might have time to talk about the infamous local elections in Perpignan.
L'atelier/workshop de "pratique du français" de ce matin s'est super bien passé: nous étions 5 avec 4 nationalités différentes; nous avons p^discuté de la crise internationale et partager nos inquiétudes et comparer la situation de chaque pays ainsi que les réactions de ses membres. très intéressant!
Le prochain atelier prévu en novembre se fera probablement sur le thème des élections américaines, avec comparaison des systèmes électoraux de différents pays. Nous aurons peut-êttre aussi le temps et l'occasion de parler des fameuses élections municipales à Perpignan...
- 211 reads
Sep
24
la professeure, la proviseure
24. September 2008 - 16:16 | Add new comment
I often get comments when I write " la professeure" with an -e at the end. " you made a mistake!"
NO, I didn't!!!
In French, we have masculine/feminine forms for - most- nouns .It was Ok for : "boulanger/boulangère, infirmier/infirmière, travailleur/ travailleuse, coiffeur/coiffeuse" etc
But there was a problem with some high level professions which have only been recently accessible to women : the name of the profession only existed in the masculine form.
Now it has changed a bit and Jospin's gouvernement decided that all jobs had to have a feminine oral and written form.
The obvious thing would be to simply put an -E and "la" of course before the profession:
"le professeur / la professeure
Monsieur le proviseur / Madame la proviseure
Monsieur le président / Madame la présidente"
"docteur, directeur" follow different rules for other reasons...
docteur, directeur
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