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A Canadian student experience in Lyon or improving your "Frenchness" in 303 days...

Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Good translation site for French expressions

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Apart from asking a French person, L'internaute Encyclopédie is the best thing I've found to learning French expressions: linternaut...
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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Shopping in France Part 3: L'Association des consommateurs de France or Making things right!

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I met Ellis on the Paris-London bus the other day. Ellis is originally from Ghana but has lived and worked in France for over a decade and s...
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Friday, March 16, 2007

The Apartment Tax

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In French, known as "taxe d'habitation" . What? This is a property tax to go toward services such as garbage collection, stree...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Shopping in France Part Two: Les Soldes

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In French, des bonnes affaires means "some good deals". For example, you might say: j'ai trouvé beaucoup de bonnes affaires ...
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Exams

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The exam period at Lyon 3 occurs between the end of classes until the beginning of the new semester. The summer exams occur from the end of ...
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Sunday, January 07, 2007

Really Caveat, Emptor: Shopping in France

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I recently watched the movie A Good Year (or Une grande année ) with Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard (she will also be seen very soon, F...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Medical Visit with "Dr. de Lyon"

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You can avoid the medical visit by going for a checkup with one of the doctors approved by the consulate in your own country before your arr...
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