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The meaning behind one of France’s newest – and shortest – verbs, four syllables to admit wasting time with, how to say ...

In French, there are vowels and consonants as there are in English. To pronounce words confidently in French, you need to know which sounds they make. Most consonants make a similar sound to ...

The way you say a word is called pronunciation. In French, there are some sounds that are different to English sounds. Even if a word looks the same and means the same thing, the way that you say ...

Multilingual TikToker @languagesimp has demonstrated what English often sounds like to people who don't speak the language ...

I put in a query to an AI chatbot to rephrase the rest of my letter in the manner of the Inuit people of Alaska, which I hope underscores my point: ...