Archive for November, 2009

Learn French in Mongolia?

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Can you learn Malay in Mongolia? According to the French, there is some controversy amongst French submarines, the Malaysian PM and a Mongolian translater…
Can you really learn French in Mongolia? Yes you can!
You can even learn German in Mongolia like reading German signboards in Ulaan Baatar Mongolia:

Learn German in Mongolia
How to learn French [...]

Famous French Phrases

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

My favorite of the most famous French phrases is: je pense donc je suis, which translates in English to : I think, therefore I am. (said by Descartes)
Why is this my favorite famous French phrase?
This is my favorite famous French phrase not because of it’s intrinsic wisdom, but for what it can tell you about [...]

Learn French to get a scholarship

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Ok, in my previous Learn French to get a scholarship I stated how to secure a scholarship online by being resourceful and ambitious like my nephew.
Myself I have a different strategy: I looked for scholarships that are in little demand (that’s why I am not doing a Masters in Computers and Technology).
Languages are always [...]

Learn French to get a scholarship

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Well, there are 2 ways of getting a scholarship:

be the best so nobody competes with you
chose a scholarship nobody knows about
chose a scholarship with little applicants

My nephew got the second option: he kept on searching the Internet for an US scholarship. When he had to defend it personally and was granted the scholarship [...]

French Music

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

If you want the know the best way how to learn French, it is by listening to the French over and over.
Nothing better than getting you some good French music.

I have put 5 French songs available on this website for you to chose which of the singers fall into your taste. Because the only way [...]

What does the name Nicole mean in French

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

Nicole Scherzinger doesn’t sounds like a French name, so what does the name Nicole mean in French?
 
The same like in any other language but you need to go back to the origin of Nicole which is in Greece.
 
Nicole is the typical French way of pronouncing the Greek name : Nicola.
 
Nicola was the Greek Goddess [...]

Memorize Japanese Words

Friday, November 6th, 2009

I have been teaching French in a Japanese School and of course those Japanese teachers wanted to learn French from me, so lucky me exchanged some French words in order to learn some Japanese words.
Free Memorize Japanese Words e-book
The strength of these Japanese teachers is that they look for an English sentence that sounds quite [...]

French Language Courses in Normandy France

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Where is Normandy
If you are a grandfather, then you know that Normandy harbors the French coastline where in World War 2 the Americans and Canadians landed and started there last offensive against the Germans.
French Language Courses in Normandy France
But what is even more special about Normandy is that it harbors a Scandinavian minority culture, so [...]