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If you want to say something about yourself in French, you use the word for 'I' – Je. Did you notice that the word for 'call' is before the word for 'you'? Sometimes the order of the words is ...

If you’re French, it seems that you shouldn’t be using so much English in pursuit of your goals. It’s a feature of an active language, that it will readily assimilate words from others.

What's important is to love the French language. We're writers, historians, doctors, scientists... working together to find the best possible definition of a word." Vitoux recognises that the ...