by Alliance Française | Aug 16, 2019 | Blog
If you are learning French with Alliance Française de Bristol and Bath, you will learn to complain and argue as well as politely converse. See the excellent monologue which Tanya, perfecting her French in Audrey’s class, has written to complain about a noisy...
by Alliance Française | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog
In her Tuesday morning French class, Martine studied Le collier rouge de Jean-Christophe Rufin et La chambre des officiers de Marc Dugain. Gordon has compared those two novels : La chambre des officiers et Le collier rouge : Si l’on fait la comparaison entre ce...
by Alliance Française | Jul 4, 2019 | Blog
If like us, you have been enjoying watching Wimbledon, you might want to know all the vocab ready for Roland Garros next year! Mais qui va gagner? Here is some tennis vocabulary : A as in 30A: equality of points during a game such as 30-30 As: ace Juge de chaise ou...
by Alliance Française | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog
We’ve just finished La chambre des officiers by Marc Dugain, this is what our student learning French with Martine, Alan, thought of it: Je recommanderais ce livre pour plusieurs raisons. Tout d’abord, c’est une histoire intéressante, bien racontée. Mais, il y a aussi...
by Alliance Française | Jun 7, 2019 | Announcements, Blog
In Martine’s Wednesday evening French class, we read Le collier rouge by Jean-Christophe Rufin over the last few weeks. Here is what Anita wrote once we had finished it: En hommage au livre Le Collier Rouge de Jean Christophe Rufin Je recommande vivement...
by Alliance Française | Jun 4, 2019 | Blog
Looking for something to read in the summer? Look no further: read Paul’s Catherine’s, Alex’s and Maria’s reviews of Millesime 54 by Antoine Laurain. Paul: Magalie (restauratrice d’art), Julien (barman), Bob (fanatique américain de Harley...
by Alliance Française | May 24, 2019 | Announcements, Blog
David, who has been learning French with Audrey in Southville, has written the following review about Antoine Laurain’s latest novel: Millesime 54 (Vintage 1954). Here is what he thought: Millésime 54 L’auteur Antoine Laurain écrit avec un style intéressant. Si...
by Alliance Française | May 6, 2019 | Blog
After the terrible fire of Notre Dame (l’incendie) architects and French citizens are wondering how to rebuild the beautiful landmark. Here are a few words of vocabulary to help you follow the conversation; selected from this glossary: La flèche La flèche en...
by Alliance Française | Apr 7, 2019 | Blog
Le pet de nonne or le beignet goes back to the Renaissance period. Different stories are told about the origin of the name but, in any case une nonne is a nun and pets de nonne were first of all cooked by nuns in Franche Comté ( east of France) for instance. Iza, our...
by Alliance Française | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog
A couple of weeks ago, in my Tuesday morning class, we read and discussed Marcel Proust’s famous passage about la madeleine. Here is a picture of une madeleine above. In A la recherche du temps perdu, Proust explains how he remembers years later the taste of the...
