You decided one rainy night to buy some French videos from the hotel and stay in your room for the evening to relax. You watched some incredible French films that evening! A French director named Marcel Pagnol directed one of those wonderful French films. Upon returning the videos the next morning, the French hotel clerk mentions that the director also writes French novels. You ask in your broken French where you might be able to checkout some of his French novels along with some books about the history, art, and architecture of France. You can’t remember the French word for library so you just say in English. Thank goodness, he seems to know exactly what you are talking about! He tells you where you can find all those books in a great French library just across town. Oh, how I hope you brought enough money to cover this mistake!
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Maybe what rattled you was the list of French designers on your family’s gift wish list. Perhaps, your French boss piled the work onto your desk the day before your vacation began! Maybe the Parisian metro workers went on strike the week after you bought a lovely French chateau twenty miles from work. On the other hand, perhaps you just woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. Whatever the reasoning is, if you start unwinding all of your stresses in your native language, people are going to think you have really lost your mind! The best thing to do is to take a deep breath, let it out…that’s good. Okay, now listen to this Idioms and Proverbs lesson to find some quirky little sayings the French use when they are about to blow their tops! In the meantime, here’s a saying for you…misery loves company. Since you are blowing off steam in French, you are bound to find some French people to share a glass of wine and a good, old-fashioned gripe session with!
Learning French with FrenchPod101.com is the most fun and effective way to learn French! This French Idioms and Proverbs lesson will teach you how to say a few French idioms and Proverbs that will help you express your frustration in French! We will discuss the meanings, origins and correct usage of these supportive French sayings! Then you will learn a little about the famous French designer, Sonia Rykiel. Don’t forget to stop by FrenchPod101 for French Lesson Notes, more great French learning resources, or to start your next French lesson! Leave us a comment while you are there!
You have been standing in the French hotel lobby for half an hour arguing with your husband about where you should send the day. You want to spend all day shopping in French boutiques. He wants to spend the day sampling French cuisine and touring French historical sites. Your husband offers a compromise of spending half the day doing each. However, you don’t think either of you will have time to fully enjoy what you want if you do that. Overhearing your conversation, the French hotel concierge comes to see if he can lend some advice. He asks you and your husband in French how many days you have left to spend in France. You tell the helpful man in French that you have five days left. He responds in French, “ne cherche pas midi à quatorze heures!” Both you and your husband are more than a little puzzled!
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You were the one that told your teenage son about the French proverb. You thought some French culture might help him tackle his problems with more sophistication. Don’t you know by now that you have to be very specific with teenagers? Why didn’t you give your teenagers examples of famous French historical icons that have faced great turmoil in their own lives to achieve greatness? Instead, you think you can just tell him the French proverb and he will understand! What did you think your son was going to take from, “there are no omelets without breaking eggs?” You should help him clean the eggs off his math teacher’s house!
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Did you see who she ate dinner with in that new French restaurant last night? I thought she was dating that other French guy! No? You say she’s dating three different French men! How does she keep up with their names? What does her poor old-fashioned French Catholic mother think? Oh, I can’t bear to think of it! Oh yeah, have you seen the French jeans she has been painting on? Well, it’s no wonder she has no many men chasing her! Oh, tell your husband we are not gossiping, we are just observing what is happening in our little French neighborhood. Well, she is the one advertising what she is doing on her hot French nights! Tell him if our husbands weren’t so boring maybe we would have something better to talk about!
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