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Le French Hamster
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French teacher for non native speakers, prof de FLE
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Bonjour!
Une expression qui me fait toujours rire!
March 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Bonjour!
Une expression empruntée à l'anglais il y a si longtemps qu'on ne pense même pas qu'elle n'est pas française:
#thé #français #frenchlanguage #languefrançaise #expressionfrançaise #fle
February 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Bonjour,
L'expression française du jour : c'est fort de café!
#french #français #languefrançaise
February 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Aujourd'hui, c'est vendredi, y a pas le feu au lac!
February 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Bonjour.
In French, when you are reaaaaally bored you shit yourself like a dead rat, yes that is a real expression, and yes we use it very often, because why not?
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February 12, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Une autre expression française : être dans de beaux draps, parce qu'en ce moment, le monde est dans de beaux draps!
Another French expression: être dans de beaux draps, because right now, the world is in big trouble!
#french #frenchlanguage #frenchexpression
February 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Oldies but Goodies - French is Weird 08 - "Junior Edition"
French is Weird - Junior édition (image: Boulet with a moustache and a béret, saying "Ohlàlà") Let's talk about kids. There is a lot to say about playground conversations. (Well, not actual kids, old kids. Like: those are expressions from my childhood, I don't know how kids talk nowadays.) I remember a lot of stupid rhymes like: haut les mains, peau de lapin, la maitresse en maillot de bain. Which could be translated like this: hands up, rabbit skin, the teacher in a swimsuit" (image: a bunny raising its paws, and a teacher in a swimsuit, both very confused) We had another one to tease a friend if he/she was upset (for example: if they just lost a game): "T'as les boules, t'as les glandes, t'as les crottes de nez qui pendent!" (you have the balls, you have the glands, you have boogers hanging from your nose! (well, "nose poops") = Yes, in France we don't have a word for boogers, we call them "nose poops" and I think it's beautiful. "Avoir les boules" in french means "to be upset". Like a lump in your throat. We are talking about THESE balls here (image of glands in the throat) (Image of a group of kids coming back from a soccer game) There was also the classic: "On a gagné, les doigts dans le nez, ils ont perdu, les doigts dans le cul!" (We won, fingers in the nose, they lost, fingers in the butt) Yes in France we don't say "piece of cake" when something is easy, we say "fingers in the nose" I guess the butt part is just for the rhyme. We would also use an old expression "Dans le cul la balayette! Le manche et l'étiquette!" which means "up your ass the brush (small brush, like dustpan & brush) the stick and the tag!" (I guess the second part is just a disambiguation about how and to what depth the brush is to be used) Luckily we had also a lot of clever comebacks, the most popular was "C'est celui qui dit qui l'est!" literally: it's the one who says, who is. Like "I know you are but what am I?" Or if someone insulted you, you could just use "Miroir!" (mirror), and your ennemi would use "contre-miroir!" and you would escalate to "eternal unbreaking mirror!" (Miroir incassable pour l'éternité) Sometimes we would une very elegant expressions from our parents, like: "La Bave du Crapeau n'atteind pas la Blanche Colombe" =(The Toad's drool doesn't reach the White Dove", or this one: "Le Train de ton Ignominie Roule sur les Rails de mon Indifférence jusqu'à la Gare de mon Mépris" (the train of your ignominy rolls on the rails of my indifference towards the station of my despisal) There are a lot of variations of this one. The frenchiest one would be "Ferme ta boîte à Camembert" ("close your camembert box" to say "shut up"). There were also surrealistic insults, like "Tu pues du cul, t'as les roupettes en chocolat" (your ass stinks and your balls are made of chocolate) Some were bad puns, they made very little sense, even in French image: One kid says "arrête!" the other one answers "y'a pas d'arètes dans le biftek!" ("Stop it!" (arrête) - "There are no fishbones (arètes) in the beefsteak") After that, it could escalate to war "you'll see your face at the exit" = "Tu vas voir ta gueule à la sortie!" The fight could include a "shampoo" (noogie)=Le Shampooing or an "indian burn" = when you rub someone's arm on both directions "La brûlure indienne" And we would not "kick someone's ass" but "make them a square head" ("faire la tête au carré") And if the loser was a snitch (un cafteur) he had a little sing-song for him: "rapporteur à quat'moteurs, quand tu pètes tu nos fais peur!" = It means "tattletale with four engines, when you fart you scare us" (again, there were variations like "when you fart you make butter" = quand tu pètes tu fais du beurre) The more I do those comics, the more I realize French makes no sense. (Image of a french guard from "Monty Python's Holy Grail" saying: "your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries".
February 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Another French expression today : traîner des casseroles!
February 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Bonjour!
Hello, we're continuing with our funny expressions in the language of humour (and l'amour if you want), French! Today, there's a ball (yep, this type of ball) in the soup, and it's not good news!
February 4, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Bonjour!
Funny French expression of the day : ça va chier des bulles (it's going to poop bubbles).
January 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Bonjour!
Une autre expression française! Oui le français est peut-être la langue de l'amour mais c'est surtout la langue de l'humour! #french #expressionsfrançaises
January 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Bonjour!
Une autre expression française aujourd'hui pour ceux et celles qui aiment ça!
January 30, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Bonjour!
Une expression française amusante pour égayer votre journée!
A funny French expression to brighten up your day!
January 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM