Why the French love to complain - BBC - Travel
In France, a complaint is an appropriate and frequent conversation starter – but the appropriateness of when, to whom and about what to complain is...
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Why the French love to say no - BBC - Travel
Although the default answer to almost every question, request or suggestion is a disheartening ‘non’, a ‘oui’ is often hiding in the context of wha...
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Why the French don’t show excitement -- BBC - Travel
Not only is ‘Je suis excité’ not the appropriate way to convey excitement in French, but there seems to be no real way to express it at all.
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Why the French are arguing over a small dot - The Economist explains
IN FRANCE, questions of language often touch off fiery national debates. Just last year reforms meant to simplify tricky spellings—including the op...
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How multilingual is France? | The Economist
“HOW can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?”, Charles de Gaulle once famously complained of France. In the wake of t...
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Emmanuel Macron is trying to change France’s psychology - Charlemagne: Exorcising Marx in France
STRANGE rituals have been taking place behind closed doors in Paris this summer. While much of Europe basked on the beach, elaborate rites and unfa...
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A Brief History of French Soccer
Twenty years ago, a multicultural France team, led by Zinedine Zidane, won the World Cup and helped to temporarily unite a fractured nation. On the...
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In France, Comic Books Are Serious Business - The New York Times
At the Angoulême International Comics Festival, there was a sense that the best days for comic books may be yet to come — in the French-speaking wo...
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"Lupin" feeds Netflix viewers' foreign-series frenzy - Marketplace
Netflix said in its earnings report last week that "Lupin" is set to rack up 70 million views in its first month, a new record.
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'Woke' American Ideas Are a Threat, French Leaders Say - The New York Times
Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French iden...
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