As you may know, France is going to elect their new president this Sunday. Like five years ago, the final candidates are Emmanuel Macron, the current president, and Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right party Rassemblement National (RN – National Rally). It is the third time that a far-right leader is in the […]
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🇫🇷🇨🇭 Swiss mini bunker scandal
As the whole of Europe is gripped within the anxiety of a potential nuclear war on their continent, Swiss people have been talking a lot about bunkers lately. Yes, bunkers! I am as surprised as you – although I was raised in Switzerland, I had completely forgotten about them. Since the 1960’s, each Swiss citizen […]
In your studies, you may have noticed how many English words tare used in Japanese and in French. French often uses English words for business/marketing and internet related terms. For example, we use the English words “brainstorming,” “data,” “startup,” “follower,” “like,” in French. This phenomenon has been reinforced over the last decade via the social media […]
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🇯🇵 Precision in the Japanese language
If you have traveled to Japan, you may have noticed the attention to details in this country: everything is done meticulously, with care. I would say precision is in our genes. When I was working in Japan as a sales and PR manager for the Italian shoe brand Giuseppe Zanotti, the Italian team was always […]
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🇫🇷 French Literature About War
🇺🇸 Today, I’d like to post two excerpts of French classic authors of the 18th and 19th centuries, denouncing the horror and the absurdity of war. 📚« Tant que le caprice de quelques hommes fera loyalement égorger des milliers de nos frères, la partie du genre humain consacrée à l’héroïsme sera ce qu’il y a de […]
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🏛 Latin quote💫
« Per aspera ad astra »🌙 🇺🇸 Through hardships to the stars Latin proverb that resonates especially in these hard times🙏🏻🌙 🇫🇷 Par les difficultés jusqu’aux astres Proverbe latin qui résonne particulièrement en ces temps difficiles. 🇯🇵困難を通り抜けて、星へ 今の時期、特に心に響くラテン語の名言。みんなでこの困難を乗り越えて星の様に輝きましょう💫 Konnann wo toorinukete hoshi e Ima no jiki tokuni kokoro ni hibiku ratengo no meigen. Minna de kono konnan […]
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🇯🇵 Japanese super cat day
🇺🇸 Did you know that today is “super cat day” in Japan? The number “two” in Japanese is “ni” and its sound is associated to cats because of its resemblance to the sound of meow in Japanese (にゃん nyan or にゃー nyaa), so every year February 22 is know as cats’ day. And this year, […]
« Mais les élans, mais les regrets, mais les tendres souffrances, ce sont encore des richesses. (…) Le chagrin est lié aux frémissements de la vie. » Saint-Exupéry Terre des hommes (1939)📚 🇫🇷 Bel exemple de la figure de style anaphore (répétition en début de phrase), utilisée ici par Saint-Exupéry, qui nous conseille d’accepter les souffrances de […]
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🇫🇷 French literature❤️🌹
« Qu’il est si reposant d’être noués tous deux comme deux arbres de ses forêts. D’être remués par les mêmes grands vents. De recevoir ensemble le soleil et la lune et les oiseaux du soir. Pour toute la vie. » Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry Mémoires de la rose 🇺🇸 Excerpt from the memoir of the last wife of […]
Today, I’d like to talk about a political interview that recently went viral in France. Gérald Darmanin, the current French Minister of the Interior (equivalent to the Secretary of Homeland Security in the US) was interviewed by journalist Apolline de Malherbe, which became heated when a sexist comment was made. First, it is important to […]