These not-quite-cheek-not-quite-air kisses are an essential part of French culture, so being prepared to give and receive them is vital.

Today’s issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at les bises: what they are, when and how to do them, and more.

Table of Contents

1. Characteristics

2. Related features

3. Listening

4. Juste pour rigoler

5. Remerciements

Characteristics

Introduction to la bise 🎬

French kissing has always been a fascinating part of French culture. Not in the sense of kissing with tongues (a topic for another site!), but rather the ubiquitous exchange of cheek kisses upon meeting and greeting in France.

How to do la bise 😘

Faire la bise is often translated as “cheek kissing” or even “air kissing,” when a more accurate - though decidedly less elegant - description is “lightly pressing alternating cheeks together while making optional kissy sounds.”

Which side to start on ↔️

I’ve never found any rhyme or reason as to which side to start la bise on. Some say that it depends on the region of France, but in my experience, it’s not that consistent - it seems more a matter of personal preference.

How many bises❓

The number of kisses varies by region and by other factors that are more difficult to pin down.

Related features

Some language lessons to go along with situations where you might faire la bise.

• Introductions

• Greetings

• Politeness

• Gratitude

• Social niceties

Listening

Bise à la française A2

La bise à la française a l’air simple vu de l’extérieur : les Français se disent bonjour en s’embrassant sur les joues.

La bise en France B1

Video introduction to la bise, that oh-so-French way of saying hello, with transcript and translation.

🙋 A2 - B1 ?

These are 2 of the 6 CEFR proficiency levels.

Juste pour rigoler

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Let's find out how much you know about Bastille Day! 🇫🇷

Do you know how to pronounce bastille? Do you also know that you don't actually say that word when talking about this holiday in French?

Today's issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at the French national holiday and explains everything you could possibly want to know about the celebration of Bastille Day.

Table of Contents

1. Bastille Basics

2. Reading

3. Listening

4. Quiz Time

5. Writing

6. C'est la fête !

7. Remerciements

Bastille Basics

Happy Bastille Day! 📣

The French will never say anything like "bonne Bastille" or "joyeuse fête de la Bastille." Unlike the rest of the world, the French don't closely associate their Fête nationale, which they call le Quatorze Juillet, with the storming of the Bastille. At most, they might generically wish each other Bonne fête ! but even that is unlikely. Funnily enough, the biggest fans of France's national holiday tend to be from anywhere but France.

Even the expression Vive la France !, ubiquitous during Francophiles' Bastille Day celebrations, is for the French themselves more tied to politics and sports than to le Quatorze Juillet.

Bastille Day facts 📚

7 things you should know about Bastille: the holiday, the prison, and the word itself.

Symbols of France

Le Quatorze Juillet is just one of a number of French symbols and patriotic motifs.

Jours fériés 🎉

Can you name France's 11 public holidays?

Reading

Bastille Day

Brief introduction to Bastille Day and the French Revolution.

La Fête nationale du 14 juillet

From l'Élysée (office of the president of France)

Le 14 juillet, jour de Fête nationale depuis 1880

From the official site of the French government

Paris fête le 14 juillet !

From l'Office du Tourisme de Paris

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Listening

Le Quatorze Juillet

Introduction to the French national holiday with sound file and transcript. Click any word for translation and related grammar lessons.

La prise de la Bastille

Sound file with transcript and translation about the storming of the Bastille.

L'histoire de la Fête nationale

Informative video about how it all began.

C'est quoi le 14 juillet ?

Cute animated video about France's national holiday.

La Marseillaise 🎶

A beautiful rendition of France's national anthem, sung during the 2022 Bastille Day military parade.

Quiz Time

Bastille Day Quiz

Think you know what France's national holiday is all about? Let's find out!

Vive la Fête nationale !

Bastille Day vocabulary quiz.

Symboles de la République française

Test yourself on some basic grammar in this themed fill-in-the-blanks quiz.

Writing

Practice your French translation skills with these writing exercises.

Bastille Day in France (B2)

A typical family celebration.

Bastille Day in the South of France (A2)

What Bastille Day is like in a small village.

🙋 A2 - B2 ?

These are two of the six CEFR language proficiency levels.

C'est la fête !

Celebrate Bastille Day with some music, un tricolore, and of course a variety of delicious French food:

• Assiette de fromage

• Crêpes

• Mousse au chocolat

• Pissaladière

• Ratatouille

• Salade de fruits bleu-blanc-rouge

• Salade niçoise

• Soupe à l'oignon

• Tapenade

• Vichyssoise

And be sure to wash it all down with a nice cold glass of vin rosé, Orangina, or Évian. I hope you have a wonderful Bastille Day - à la vôtre ! 🥂

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Today’s issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at going everywhere with aller.

Table of Contents

1. Lessons

2. Listening

3. Quiz Time

4. Writing

5. En musique !

6. Remerciements

Lessons

🎬 Using aller

Introduction to the most common uses of this essential French verb.

💬 Aller expressions

Aller is found in a number of essential and idiomatic expressions, including to meet, to match, and to get to the bottom of things.

Aller verb tables

How to conjugate aller in every tense and mood.

🎧 Also see aller conjugations with sound files.

Aller in the near future

Use aller plus an infinitive when you are going to do something, as in

Je vais lire - I’m going to read.

Also see

• Reflexive verbs in the near future
  (Je vais me doucher - I’m going to take a shower)

• Near future in the past
  (J’allais lire - I was going to read)

Listening

Work on your listening comprehension while keeping an ear out for aller conjugations and expressions in these audio articles.

🏖️ La fin des vacances A2

Choisir un costume de carnaval B1 dictée

📚 Partir étudier à l’étranger - les qualités à avoir B1

La rentrée, quelle angoisse ! B2

🙋 A2 - B1 - B2 ?

These are 3 of the 6 CEFR proficiency levels.

Quiz Time

Test yourself on some aller conjugations.

Aller as “to go”

• Destinations de vacances 🏞️

• La journée des sept nains

• Plans pour la soirée 🌆

Aller as part of near future

• La Fête de la Musique

• L’automne chez mes grands-parents 🍂

• Mon job d’été

Reflexive verbs in the near future

• Routine du matin ☕

PwLF Super Study Lists

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• Aller conjugations

• Expressions with aller

Writing

Practice your French translation skills and aller knowledge with these writing exercises.

📽️ Going to the movies A1

Future job A2

🏠 Renovations in my new house A2

En musique !

France’s 2010 Eurovision entry was a ridiculously catchy song called Allez Ola Olé, by Jessy Matador.

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But first things first: what is this tournament actually called? In English, it's generally called the French Open. But it has several names in French:

• Roland-Garros

• le tournoi de Roland-Garros

• les Internationaux de France

You might also hear talk of le Championnat de France international de tennis - this was the precursor to the French Open, which took place from 1891 to 1924. At that point, the tournament was opened to foreigners and became les Internationaux de France. A few years later, in 1928, a new stadium was inaugurated and named Roland-Garros, after a French aviator who died for France in WWI.*

Table of Contents

1. Lessons

2. Listening + Reading

3. Writing

4. Juste pour rigoler

5. Remerciements

Lessons

No, sorry, I don't have any tips to improve your serve. I haven't played tennis in years, and even when I did, I wasn't that great at it. But I can help you out with understanding the commentators and talking about amazing break points.

Tennis terms

Learn all the important French vocabulary, from people and players to essential verbs.

Jouer + à or de ?

Speaking of verbs, this one can be a little tricky when it comes to deciding which preposition you need.

Sports, Games, Hobbies

If tennis isn't your thing, take a look at this page for vocab related to all kinds of other pastimes.

Listening and Reading

Le tournoi de Roland-Garros

Discover some of the particularities about the French Open in this audio article. Click any word in the transcript for the translation and link to related grammar lessons.

Le stade Roland-Garros

Go behind the scenes with the people modernizing the French Open stadium.

Jouer au tennis en France

Practice your reading comprehension with this article about joining a tennis club in France.

For more French listening practice, check out these video channels:

• Roland-Garros : dernières actualités

• Fédération Française de Tennis

Writing

At the sporting goods store

Help Alain buy tennis equipment for his son in this A1-level translation exercise.

Mon idole Roger Federer

B1-level dictée about one of the greatest tennis players in history.

Juste pour rigoler

*Source: Internationaux de France de tennis

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Today's issue of Lawless French à fond is all about movies and movie festivals.

Table of Contents

1. Lessons

2. Listening

3. Reading

4. Writing

5. Quiz Time

6. Juste pour rigoler

7. Remerciements

🎥 Lessons

Movie Terms

Lights! Camera! Action (verbs)! Learn French vocabulary related to movies, cinemas, and the Cannes film festival.

Idioms 💬

Here's an expression to talk about a favorite movie, another to talk about a successful movie, and one more that inspired the title of a very famous French movie.

1. Un coup de cœur 💖

2. Faire un tabac 🎉

3. Faire les 400 coups 🍿

Listening

Practice listening with this variety of audio articles about movies and film festivals.

Le Festival de Cannes, un peu d'histoire B2

Festival de Cannes, au-delà des marches B1

Le cinéma français et ses remakes américains B2

Le Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville B1

Réalisatrices françaises B2

Festival International du Film Francophone B1

Of course, not everyone likes the same movies, but here are a few favorites 💌 chosen by me and my friends at Progress with Lawless French.

KwizIQ French Film Fest B2

La sélection de Céline B2

La sélection de Cécile B2

🙋 A2 - B1 - B2 ?

These are 3 of the 6 CEFR proficiency levels.

Reading

Learn more about the wonderful world of cinema with these sites:

Festival de Cannes (site officiel)

La Fédération Nationale des Cinémas Français

Meilleurs films de tous les temps selon les spectateurs (Allociné)

Writing

Writing challenges and dictées are two types of self-scoring exercises available to Premium Progress with Lawless French subscribers.

Writing challenges (translation)

A trip to the cinema B1

Bad Movie Review B2

Movie Date A2

Dictées (transcription)

Au Festival de Cannes B1

Mes bêtes noires au cinéma C1

Movie Night A1

Quiz Time

Test your French with some movie-themed gapfills.

Au cinéma (subject pronouns)

Le cinéma, c'est quoi ? (vocab)

Ma passion pour le cinéma (vocab)

Retourner au cinéma (devoir/pouvoir/vouloir in future)

Les citations célèbres de Star Wars (assorted grammar)

Juste pour rigoler

Dîner de cons is one of my favorite movies of all time. It has some wonderful word play, is hilarious from beginning to end, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you haven't seen it - or even if you have - here is one particularly funny scene.

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You're probably aware that May 1st is a holiday in France - but did you know that it's actually two holidays?

le Premier Mai =

• la fête du Travail

• la fête du Muguet

Both la fête du Travail (Labor Day) and la fête du Muguet (Lily-of-the-valley Day) fall on the first of May, so what's the deal? This issue of Lawless French à fond has everything you need to know about these springtime celebrations.

Table of Contents

1. Videos

2. Slideshow

3. Lessons

4. Quiz Time

5. Writing

6. Célébrez !

7. Remerciements

Videos

Watch these videos to learn about the two faces of le 1er Mai while practicing your French listening comprehension. (There's always a transcript and translation if you need help.)

Bonne fête du Premier Mai ! (B1)

What's the connection between these two seemingly unrelated holidays?

D'où vient la fête du Travail ? (B2)

The international history of France's fête du Travail.

Pourquoi y a-t-il une fête du Travail ? (B2)

Adorable animated video about French Labor Day.

Slideshow

📜 Premier Mai, poème de Victor Hugo (C1)

Discover some photos of the renowned French poet while listening to a recitation of his beautiful ode to the 1st of May.

🙋 B1 - B2 - C1 ?

These are 3 of the 6 CEFR language proficiency levels.

Lessons

Demonstrations and Strikes

Because it's Labor Day, May 1st in France is usually marked by workers' marches and protests. Here's some vocabulary to help you make sense of them.

❓ Jours fériés

May 1st is un jour férié - but what does that actually mean?

📅 Dates

Learn how to talk about dates in French.

🥇 Ordinal Numbers

Premier is the first ordinal number - find out what comes second, third, and beyond.

🌼 Flowers

Discover French names for other flowers.

🍃 Spring

More French vocabulary for the season

Quiz Time

La tradition du muguet en France

Test yourself on adjective agreement with a themed quiz.

Vive le printemps !

Test yourself on some French vocabulary for spring in this fill-in-the-blanks quiz.

Writing

Going lily-of-the-valley picking

Practice your French translation skills with this B2-level writing exercise.

Mon Premier Mai

Listen to French audio and type what you hear in this B2 dictée.

Célébrez !

📫 Greeting Cards

Surprise your favorite Francophile with a virtual muguet.

I wish you a ...

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Today’s issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at everything you can do and all the phrases you can make with faire.

Table of Contents

1. Lessons

2. Listening

3. Quiz Time

4. Writing

5. Juste pour rigoler

6. Remerciements

Lessons

🎬 Using faire

Introduction to the most common uses of this essential French verb.

💬 Faire expressions

Faire is found in dozens of essential and idiomatic expressions, including to pack, to pretend, and to make a big fuss.

Faire verb tables

How to conjugate faire in every tense and mood.

🎧 Also see faire conjugations with sound files.

Faire in the causative construction

Faire is the verb used to make something happen or make someone do something, as in Je fais laver la voiture - I’m having the car washed.

🆚 Faire vs Rendre

When making someone feel something, “make” isn’t always equivalent to faire.

Listening

Work on your listening comprehension while keeping an ear out for faire conjugations and expressions in these audio articles.

📅 Une semaine bien chargée A1

Carte postale A2

🏖️ La fin des vacances A2

Petit Ours Brun fait des crêpes A2

La semaine des Martin A2

🐟 Pourquoi on fait des poissons d’avril ? B1

4 astuces anti-fatigue pour faire le plein d’énergie C1

🙋 A1 - A2 - B1 - C1 ?

These are 4 of the 6 CEFR proficiency levels.

Quiz Time

Test yourself on some faire conjugations.

Present tense

• Aider à la maison 🧹

Future tense

• Les corvées du weekend

Mixed conjugations (present, imperfect, future, etc)

• Faire du sport ⚽

• Pour l’écologie

PwLF Super Study Lists

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• Faire conjugations

• Expressions with faire

Writing

Practice your French translation skills and faire knowledge with these writing exercises.

No chores for me! A1

🎃 Pumpkin soup recipe B1

How to show your love C1

Juste pour rigoler

Il faut faire la bise !

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Everywhere in France, les cloches are silenced 🔕 on the Thursday before Easter (Jeudi saint) so that, legend has it, they can fly to Rome and get blessed by the Pope. Then on the way home, les cloches volantes pick up all the decorated eggs and hide them for kids to find.

Today's issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at French Easter terms and traditions.

Table of Contents

1. Terminology

2. Listening

3. Quiz Time

4. Writing

5. Juste pour rigoler

6. Remerciements

Terminology 📚

"Easter" in French is most often feminine plural: les Pâques, but it can also be masculine singular: le Pâques.

The feminine singular word la Pâque refers to Passover. ✡️

Children born on or near Easter are often named Pascal or Pascale, which essentially mean "Easter boy" and "Easter girl," respectively. 👶 Pascal is also an adjective meaning "Easter" - e.g., un dîner pascal = Easter dinner.

👉 More Easter Vocabulary

Seasonal expression: Noël au balcon, Pâques au tison

📅 Lundi de Pâques is one of France's 11 jours fériés.

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Listening

Practice your intermediate (B1) listening skills with these Easter-themed audio exercises.

La chasse aux œufs

Hunt for Easter eggs with this excited brother and sister.

Les œufs en chocolat

Cute cartoon about about finding Easter eggs with Milo.

Œuf avec message surprise à l'intérieur

DIY Easter activity: decorated eggs with a surprise message inside.

Dictées

Combined listening and writing practice.

Les décorations de Pâques (A1)

Le matin de Pâques (A2)

Pâques en France (A2)

La fabrication des œufs en chocolat (A2)

La chasse aux œufs (B1)

Les cloches de Pâques (B2)

L'omelette géante de Bessières (B2)

Pâques-atastrophe ! (C1)

Repas Pascal (C1)

🙋 A1 - A2 - B1 - B2 - C1 ?

These are 5 of the 6 CEFR proficiency levels.

Quiz Time

Test yourself on French Easter vocabulary with these fill-in-the-blanks quizzes:

• Décorations de Pâques

• Joyeuses Pâques !

And why not practice your future conjugations with a themed exercise? Pâques chez Lise

Writing

Practice your translation skills with these fun writing challenges.

Easter decorations (A1)

Easter loot (A1)

Easter preparations (A1)

Easter egg hunt (A2)

Easter baking class (B1)

Easter Monday (B1)

Easter, a family celebration (B2)

French Easter specialties (B2)

My first Easter (B2)

Juste pour rigoler

An oldie but a goodie!

If you don't get it, try saying it out loud! 😊

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1. Like English, French has contractions where a letter is replaced by an apostrophe, but unlike in English, these contractions (called élisions) are not optional. ⚠️

2. French also has contractions where two words combine into one, with no apostrophe and sometimes with a non-obvious new spelling. Again, these are required. 🤔

Today’s issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at the different kinds of French contractions.

Table of Contents

1. Lessons

2. Listening

3. Quiz Time

4. Writing

5. Juste pour rigoler

6. Remerciements

Lessons

Élisions

Required contractions like j’ai work similarly to ones like I’ve, except in French the dropped letter is always at the end of the first word, rather than somewhere in the second word as in English.

Contractions

Formes contractées are two words combined into a single new word. The most common and important of these consist of a preposition (à or de) plus definite article or lequel.

Informal contractions 𐦂𖨆𐀪𖠋

In informal French, je and tu are commonly contracted in non-standard ways. Unlike the above, these contractions are optional - in fact, in formal situations, they are verboten.

Other shortened words ➕

A bit off topic, but it’s good to know that French has a number of other ways to shorten words:

• Acronyms and initialisms

• Aphereses

• Apocopes

• Texting (all of the above, and then some)

Listening

Keep an ear out for contractions and élisions in these listening exercises.

📱 Au téléphone avec Maman A2

🛒 Au supermarché B1

🍁 Immigrer au Canada B2

Dictées

Practice your French by typing what you hear.

🏖️ Le Sun7 Beach de Marie-Galante A1

🎁 Faire du bénévolat à Noël C1

🙋 A1 - A2 - B1 - B2 - C1 ?

These are 5 of the 6 CEFR proficiency levels.

Quiz Time

Mon programme d’Halloween

🎃 See how you do with contractions in this fill-in-the-blanks quiz.

Writing

Practice your French translation skills with these writing exercises.

🥐 Our favorite breakfast pastries A2

🚄 A weekend in Montpellier B1

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La rentrée is the official end of summer vacation and the return to real life, meaning not just a new school year, but also

the return to work and the restart of clubs, sports teams, dance classes, and all the other social gatherings known as associations.

For this reason, many people think of un an as September to August, rather than the Gregorian calendar's January to December.

Today’s issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at la rentrée to help you start this new year off sur le bon pied ! 🦶

Table of Contents

1. Vocabulary

2. Reading Practice

3. Listen and Learn

4. Videos

5. Quiz Time

6. Writing Exercises

7. Tool for School

8. Remerciements

Vocabulary

📕 Rentrée

The word rentrée comes from the verb rentrer, which means "to return" in reference to a place one goes regularly, where they belong - which often means home, but also work and school. So la rentrée indicates the return to normal life.

⚖️ Note that this is in contrast to the seven other French verbs that mean "to return."

👋 À la rentrée !

Before the start of summer vacation and all through les grandes vacances, when you probably won't see the other person again until September, à la rentrée is the most common way to say "see you later."

🍎 School

Headed back to school? Buy the right supplies and get to the right place with this school vocab.

💬 French Class Phrases

Avoid speaking English during any normal classroom interaction with these essential French class phrases.

📅 Expressions with an and année

Learn how to say school year, calendar year, and a whole lot more.

Reading Practice

Associations françaises

Quand on habite en France, l'un des meilleurs moyens de rencontrer des gens est de devenir membre d'une association.

Listen and Learn

Learn more about la rentrée while practicing your listening comprehension.

• Qu'est-ce que la rentrée ? A2

• Ma première rentrée des classes A2

• La rentrée des classes de Mathilde B1

• Rentrée de professeur B1

• La rentrée, quelle angoisse ! B2

• Une rentrée plutôt réussie B2

🙋 A2 - B1 - B2 ?

These are 3 of the 6 CEFR proficiency levels.

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Videos

More listening practice combined with useful information about la rentrée scolaire.

Limiter les dépenses

Tips to save some money while shopping for school supplies.

La dictature de la mode

The evolution of back-to-school fashions in France.

Pourquoi la rentrée scolaire est-elle en septembre ?

How did early September become synonymous with la rentrée scolaire?

Quiz Time

Test yourself with some themed fill-in-the-blanks quizzes.

Vocabulary quizzes

• Vive la rentrée ! (school vocab)

• Mes matières préférées (school subjects)

Grammar quizzes

• Préparer la rentrée scolaire (future conjugations)

• Préparer sa première rentrée (passé composé)

• Rentrée à l'université (adjective agreement)

Writing Exercises

Practice your French translation skills with these writing exercises.

• Back to School A1

• Organizing My Desk A2

• Tom's First Day Back to School A2

• My Kids' Back-to-School Day B2

• Back-to-School Shopping C1

• First Day Back to School C1

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Despite their tiny size, French articles are an immensely important part of speech. They introduce and modify nouns, providing 🗝️ key information about the purpose of those nouns - as well as their gender and number.

Today's issue of Lawless French à fond takes an in-depth look at the similarities and differences between French article…

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“French is the most beautiful language in the world."

A lot of people believe this, but why? I think it comes down to two primary factors: rhythm and liaisons.

Whether or not you speak French, if you close your eyes and listen, you'll notice that it has a sort of sing-song quality. 🎶 Unlike many languages, including English, Spanish, and Greek, individua…

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