French conversation is the understanding of the French language that allows you to speak casually with someone. While a grammatical and formal understanding of the language is important, true fluency comes from being able to communicate with others. Formal French allows you to translate passages and to make yourself understood, while French conversation allows you to make a much more personal connection with a French speaker. French conversation lets you make the impression that you wish t...

A special grammar feature that the French language has is that different genders are assigned to adjectives, verbs, and nouns. This means that a single noun, verb, or adjective can have more than one form based on its gender. The different forms of adjectives, verbs, and nouns can also be determined by the genders of certain other parts of a sentence. This can include pronouns, articles, and sentence agreements. For those learning French, this would be considered a valuable grammatical top...

As we all know French is the language of love, and there are some who either quite fluent in speaking this romantic language or can't quite speak it at all. With French verbs, it's apart of speech in which the language, depending on which tense the conversation is, can be tricky. With time and practice, the language of love is easily at your fingertips. By learning French, not only you gain an extra language to speak, but a person would learn different cultures too. In addition, by learnin...

Le réunionnais, langue créole de l'océan indien, aurait-il pu contribuer au développement du tayo, langue créole parlée par les Kanak de Saint-Louis ? Afin de répondre à cette question, Karin Speedy expose un épisode de l'histoire calédonienne encore méconnu, celui de l'arrivée et de l'implantation des réunionnais et de leurs engagés en Nouvelle-Calédonie au dix-neuvième siècle. Elle montre l'influence des réunionnais sur la vie économique, sociale, culturelle, administrative et économique...