Monthly Archives: November 2008

Au Féminin…

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: November 13, 2008

Anglophones’ bête noire in French is… guess what?… Right!… GENDERS!!! Each new student I ever had in the past 20 years asked me if there were a trick to remember all the nouns’ genders in French… everyone knows there are no rules… gender is arbitrary. Unless nouns are directly derived from Latin (the ones ending [...]

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A very «Lucrative Business»… indeed!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: November 11, 2008

Still waiting for James’ results!… Useless to say that I am eager to get an answer and, at this point, I could take either good or bad news with a big smile… Just pull out the aching tooth, please! Today is Le Jour du Souvenir in Canada and all federal government’s offices are closed, consequently [...]

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A Bit More of those Little Nasty Prepositions!

By Lyne Des Roberts | Published: November 9, 2008

Sunday… the perfect day for winding down and being lazy… OR… for playing! Today I chose another quiz on prepositions… those little buggers are often puzzles, not only for Anglos learning French but also for Francos. Ironically, mistakes on prepositions in French are much more annoying for readers than verb tenses… probably because, since they link [...]

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