by Alliance Française | Dec 14, 2018 | Blog
Steve, who learns French with Martine in Alliance Française de Bristol, has written this wonderful anecdote about his time in France: Le Cigare de Havane (passé composé imparfaitement) Un jour de canicule, je me suis trouvé dans une ville que je connaissais peu....
by Alliance Française | Oct 24, 2018 | Announcements, Blog
Follow our French teacher Isabelle and her group on their visit: Just a few days and it’s All Saints’ Day (La Toussaint) and what better topic to pick than the largest Parisian park and cemetery! Last summer, during my last visit to Paris with a group of students...
by Alliance Française | Oct 12, 2018 | Blog
Have you heard of L’atelier des lumières dans le 11ème arrondissement de Paris ? It opened last April in the premises of an old foundry which had been left unoccupied for several years. In 2013, Bruno Monnier, Président de Culturespaces, discovered the site, he was...
by Alliance Française | Oct 4, 2018 | Blog
Each year, two of our students applying for the Prix de la ville de Bordeaux are selected to go to Bordeaux for two weeks, take lessons with Alliance Française de Bordeaux and stay with a French host. Read one of the laureate’s experience from this year, Steve:...
by Alliance Française | Aug 5, 2018 | Blog
Have you ever been to La Fondation Louis Vuitton in le bois de Boulogne in Paris? If you haven’t, it’s a must (c’est incontournable)! Bernard Arnaud, president of the group LVMH Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton had a vision which he shared ( qu’il partageait) with the...
by Alliance Française | Jul 15, 2018 | Blog
Students learning French with us in Bristol have been playing the dictionary game (le jeu du dictionnaire). It is a bluffing game: the game master decides on an unusual French word which will probably unknown to all the players. For example, Audrey, one of our...
by Alliance Française | Jun 29, 2018 | Announcements, Blog
Holidays… We look forward to them all year (il nous tarde qu’elles soient là toute l’année)! Here is some essential vocabulary for preparing for your holidays, in France or elsewhere. You will start by looking up the place you are going to (faire des...
by Alliance Française | Jun 15, 2018 | Blog
Learning French with us is not just discovering the French language, but also French and Francophone cultures. This book has won the prestigious Goncourt Prize, and one of our classes has studied it this year. Here are Hilary’s and Sarah’s reviews...
by Alliance Française | Jun 10, 2018 | Blog
Au début du roman, un narrateur nous parle d’un mort en mer. Il s’appelle Kermeur. Il se trouve dans un petit bateau avec un nommé Lazenec. Ce dernier tombe en mer. Il n’est pas tout de suite évident ce qui s’est passé, mais deux pages plus tard, Kermeur avoue, d’une...
by Alliance Française | May 30, 2018 | Blog
Have you ever been to the French opera house, l’Opéra Garnier or le Palais Garnier as it is also called? You don’t need to go and listen to an opera or go and see the famous ballet de l’Opéra to visit this fabulous building as you can go in as a visitor for 11 euros....
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