You’re up late watching your favorite French flick.
All of a sudden, you hear that familiar ping from your phone.
Your date from last week just slid into your messages, asking how you’re doing.
You’re about two notches better …
It can be so frustrating to study French for a long time but still be lost when listening to it.
You might know endless vocabulary words and have your grammar perfected, but spoken French still just sounds like gibberish.…
Android users, unite!
We’ve been mocked all over the internet for not being hip and cool.
We’ve been ridiculed for our supposedly awful camera quality that makes everything look like a blurry potato.
We’ve been condescendingly asked if our phones …
One fateful night, my beloved friends dragged me to karaoke.
It was a mistake.
After enduring many painful renditions of my favorite songs, a few headaches and possibly bleeding ears, my friends vowed to never take me to karaoke …
I was once at a restaurant with a friend, and he asked our waitress how the menu’s “sweet surprise ice cream” tasted.
Her response: “The sweet surprise ice cream is, uh… cold.”
Very helpful.
To be fair, I’ve also had …
It’s 2 a.m.
You’ve just gotten home after dabbing your night away at the bar. As you scour your fridge for your roommate’s leftovers, you feel that random surge of motivation to conquer the world.
So what do you …
An eager traveler in Paris walks into a restaurant.
He tells the waitress that he’s very excité to be experiencing the French lifestyle.
She grimaces in horror.
Fellow diners start laughing.
One, out of the kindness of her …
Do you know what true fear feels like?
The scariest moment for any beginning language learner is having to actually speak out loud.
You might feel like you’re at the Miss Universe Pageant and have 30 seconds to explain …
Maybe you’re an introvert.
Maybe you’re a new parent at home with a baby.
Maybe you’re under house arrest.
Who knows?
There are tons of reasons you might not be able to to get out and do a bunch of …
I once read on a mug somewhere that life is all about making important choices.
Now that mug had some wisdom.
Take my hungry French learner dilemma, for example.
Sometimes I feel hungry and want to spread my …
It was one of those late-night study slams in the school library.
I had a French oral exam coming up that I was sure would be nothing short of certain doom.
I was wearily reading one of my many grammar …
We’ve all been there.
All language learners are familiar with that moment when your motivation completely deflates.
All you want is to stop reading your books, renounce bilingualism and its perks and listen to the saddest songs in Coldplay’s …
