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French Music

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

If there is one French song that I know by hearth, then it is Aicha : a French song from Algerian-French music writer Cheb Khaled. This French song has been very popular, it has been a French hit in Malaysia as well, and my teacher those days was smart enough to incorporate it in his [...]

Learn French in Belgium

Friday, April 10th, 2009

I already explained why I learn French in Belgium (read my post: why study French in Belgium), so I will now add a few schools in Belgium where you can get some French immersion.
Since I am taking my French course in the northern part of Belgium, I also point out there is a cute [...]

Why study French in Belgium

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

I can hear you thinking: why don’t you study French in France? Because I don’t want to be in interpreter, so I can make do with the French spoken in Belgium. The southern part of Belgium is just above France and the people there speak as good French as they do in France.
Yet I [...]

French language immersion

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Did you know you could get a 3 month long French language immersion "for free"?
It needed the marriage of my niece to find out… At the small dinner we had afterwards, I spoke to her little sister who started like me: getting a French scholarship because nobody else is taking them and get your [...]

Learn French in Brussels

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

I already wrote a few words about why you should learn French in Brussels a few months ago, but I better list some schools where you can learn French as well.
Why learn French in Brussels?
Brussels is both the capital of the Kingdom of Belgium and of the European Commission and the Council of the European [...]

Why should you learn how to speak French?

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Why learn how to speak French when “everybody” speaks English?
French (le français, la langue française-the French language-) is one of the most important Romance languages, outnumbered only by Spanish language and Portuguese language. In 1999 the French language was the 11th most spoken language in the world being spoken by about 77 million people (called [...]

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