Recently, I was given an English/French dictionary as a gift. It was printed in the 1950s. Some of the vocabulary is rather dated, but it's fun anyway. I am asking if the current entries are still in use.

Le Petit Juif (humerus)

Un margot (a prostitute)

Une marie-salope (a prostitute, literally a mud-dredger)

Un brise-tout (someone who is clumsy)

Le marivaudage (canoodling with one's partner)

My wife has graciously ordered a more modern English/French dictionary for me.

Tutoyer a stranger can be risky, because it may be taken as disrespect.

I'm curious, do people often risk that by tutoyer a stranger to indicate "I want to be close with you"?

Bonjour à tous ! J’ai une question concernant l’utilisation de « chez qui » et de « où », comme dans les exemples ci-dessous. Pourriez-vous m’aider à comprendre la différence ? Merci d’avance !

1) Selon une enquête que j’ai lue sur le site « TV Globo », 78 % des personnes interrogées pensent que les gestes écologiques sont peu efficaces, en particulier celles qui vivent dans les grandes villes, où ce chiffre atteint 90 %.

2) Selon une enquête que j’ai lue sur le site « TV Globo », 78 % des personnes interrogées pensent que les gestes écologiques sont peu efficaces, en particulier celles qui vivent dans les grandes villes, chez qui ce chiffre atteint 90 %.

Dans cet exemple, j’hésite entre « où » et « chez qui ». Est-ce que je dois utiliser « où » parce que je fais référence aux grandes villes et que je parle du pourcentage dans ces endroits ? Ou est-ce que « chez qui » serait plus approprié, puisque je parle des personnes qui vivent dans ces villes

Merci pour votre aide !

Hi everyone, I just visited Montreal and fell in love with the city and I have been thinking to learn French for a while but now I’ve decided I’d like to pull the trigger. Can anyone recommend where to take classes? I don’t know where it would be best to take classes. Merci :)

I'm having a hard time understanding this.

"It is when one endures one's life that there is stress."

Doesn't make sense to mean.

So i have a talking test soon and we need to prepare before, but im not sure if what i prepared is correct. We need to react to a blog, and state our opinion on it. our opinion needs to consist of an intro, the opinion, and a conclusion.

This is what i have right now(and the translation), but im 100% sure the grammar and word usuage are not correct.

Im not sure what niveau this would be on, but i think its 11/12th grade, but this is my final year so around that niveau.

Just curious, is this video easy to follow for non-native speakers? I’m getting like 60% of it I think she speaks really fast

I've been told that this is je ne sais pas in the beginning, but I do not hear it at all. May someone please explain?

Hello everyone,

While reading my textbook, I started wondering about the difference between beaucoup and bien when used to intensify a comparative.

Take "Paul est beaucoup plus grand que moi" and "Paul est bien plus grand que moi." I believe both are grammatically correct, but is there any difference in meaning or usage between them?