Posts in category French Language

See Julie’s recommended reads on France on  the new site  Shepherd’s Discover the Best Books site: “The Best books for understanding the French.”

On his special Bastile Day show Rick Steves asks us about how the French reacted to our translation of The Bonjour Effect, what they thought …

Louis Cornellier a écrit dans Le Devoir cette fin de semaine une très belle critique d’Ainsi parlent les Français: “Le sujet est en or — …

La revue Avenues a bien aimé Ainsi parlent les Français. Ils ont sans doute un biais favorable, Jean-Benoit étant un de leurs chroniqueurs…

Julie was interview for this BBC story exploring how the concept of “excitement” doesn’t translate into French. “Verbally, ‘I’m so excited’ is sort of a …

The Bonjour Effect is quote at length in this essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, on what drives us to want to master …

Julie was interviewed for an article in France-Amérique’s web magazine about the French waiter who was fired from his job in a Vancouver restaurant for …

Why are the French rude?  Paris expat site The Local interviewed Julie and Jean-Benoît about this persistent, mistaken perception of the French. Read The French are not rude, …

What a pleasure it was  talking to Rick Steves about The Bonjour Effect for his radio show Travel with Rick Steves. Listen to the interview.