French is beautiful. It makes pastries like croissants and pain au chocolat sound like drops of heaven. It makes the most basic objects sound incredibly sophisticated, like le bateau, which means ‘boat’. It can also make names sound so exotic that they ...
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French is known as a “poetic” language, but what does that really mean? It might be that the French are genius at comi...
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