mot francais du jour

Today, seeing as I posted so late, I decided to post three words~

le matin ~ morning

l'apres midi ~ afternoon

la nuit ~ night

I have noticed that, among the many things I need to work on when learning this beautiful language, I desperately need vocabulary. You see, en Anglais, I talk. A lot. I am very verbose - it is simply a part of who I am. However, when it comes to French, with my lack of vocabulary options in my current repertoire, my verbosity is greatly reduced. So, my plan is to really work on adding to my vocabulary. I would LOVE to hear any suggestions any of you may have on how to best increase my vocab. Really, I am open to any advice here!

Merci beaucoup!

xx

mot francais du jour

After attempting to write an email en francais this afternoon, the need for my mot du jour aujourd'hui became painfully apparent...

Le Vocabulaire - vocabulary

This is an area that I am sorely lacking - every single sentence I wanted to write had numerous words that I didn't know. Thus, I really need to spend more time studying mon vocabulaire!

If you want to double your learning pleasure each day, you might want to visit this site, as she too will be doing a "french word a day" on her blog!

xx

mot francais du jour

Aujourd'hui (today) for much of our country, not to mention much of the south of England, so I hear, this word seems appropriate~

la neige - snow

neiger - to snow

xx

mot francais du jour

This past Christmas my incredibly sweet husband found something that he knew I would LOVE - and surprised me, which isn't easy to do. I was so excited when I saw these books, as even though they are simple, and meant for children, they also have some incredibly useful words and phrases.

For those of you who don't know, I will be heading to France in April - something I am incredibly excited about. (actually, it hasn't really hit me yet but as we have entered the new year, it is beginning to seem possible) I will be traveling for bits and parts with some fabulous friends, namely miss divinely sassy, miss classically stylish, and miss fabulously inspiring. Thus, these next three months I will be really focusing on my French lessons. I will be attending my regular weekly class, but I also hope to do some private lessons with my French teacher. I really want to be able to have conversations while I am there - I want to be able to order in restaurants comfortably, I want to be able to ask questions, I want to feel confident in speaking while I am there.

Thus, I thought that I would post un mot francais du jour to help me, and to share with you some words from my french children's books~

Aujourd'hui, le mot est:

la pluie ~ rain

pleuvoir ~ to rain (the verb)

Appropriate with the weather we have been enjoying and will be for the next few months...

bisous mes amies