206: De retour au bureau - à temps partiel
After nearly two years, we are seeing a gradual return to the workplace. Working from home...
16:50
205: Le monde appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt!
Some people are early-risers while others are night owls. In this lesson, we discuss an adage...
16:53
204: Prendre - un verbe polyvalent
One of our Beginner listeners asked about the English verb ‘to get’ which made us...
07:04
203: L'indice de réparabilité - un petit pas dans la bonne direction
This lesson centres on an interesting initiative which should see manufacturers pull up their...
17:30
One of our listeners asked that we would prepare a lesson with some gardening vocabulary and...
15:29
201: La covid-19 - une crise inédite
Our conversation this time is about something which has been central to our lives around the...
28:31
The subject of this - our 200th lesson! - is the opioids crisis in the U.S. which has reached...
18:45
199: ‘Les décroissants’, c’est qui?
Our conversation this time focuses on people who are referred to as ‘les décroissants’. But who...
10:57
198: Je viens chercher mon fils!
One of our listeners was taking up a position as a teacher in a pre-school in France and asked if...
10:17
197: Quand l’Afrique a gagné la Coupe du Monde
Our lesson this time goes back to a joke made by chat-show host Trevor Noah last summer,...
18:00
196: Le Président Macron réinstaurera le Service national
Our conversation this time focuses on President Macron's plan to reintroduce national service in...
16:37
195: La présidence Trump approche des élections de mi-mandat
The Trump presidency is nearing the mid-term elections in November. Mr Trump – arguably more than...
18:30
194: France: la réforme de l'accès à l'université
Traditionally, French high school graduates have been guaranteed public university places,...
19:06
193: "Que penses-tu du Brexit?"
Britain’s vote to withdraw from the European Union was widely controversial and continues to be...
14:26
192: Le transfer de Neymar : comment expliquer une telle outrance ?
The transfer of Brazilian footballer, Neymar, smashed all records in terms of the colossal sums...
13:39
191: “Je vais m’offrir un téléphone basique”
Our lesson this time was inspired by a recent article entitled “Have smartphones destroyed a...
15:31
190: Le phénomène Macron ... en marche!
Our lesson this time - for Advanced learners – focuses on the stunning rise to the French...
11:41
189: Comment parler d’un accident de la route?
A listener wondered if we could do a lesson on the basis of a traffic accident. So that’s what...
13:46
188: Le retrait des États-Unis de l’Accord de Paris sur le changement climatique
The withdrawal of the U.S. from the Paris Accord on climate change caused consternation...
19:50
187: Un diplôme universitaire, cela en vaut-il la peine?
In some countries, particularly the U.S., a university education has become so expensive that...
16:59
