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 | Sep 22, 2018 | Announcements, Blog
Follow our French teacher Isabelle and her class in Paris: One of the many perks (un des avantages) of studying with Alliance Francaise is to go on a field trip (aller en classe de découverte) with your teacher as I did with my Wednesday group. We met in Paris, a city...
by Alliance Française | Aug 27, 2018 | Blog
This will be the 7th year that we invite students taking French lessons with us and their friends and anyone who wishes to join for a friendly tournoi de boules ou de pétanque. Boules started to be played regularly at the beginning of the 20th century in La Ciotat,...
by Alliance Française | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog
Until 23rd September 2018 you can discover Picasso’s exhibition (l’exposition Picasso) entitled Donner à voir. Picasso was a Spanish artist, but his links with France are very important. He spent most of his adult life in France, and founded the Cubist...
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 | Jul 11, 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....
