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Félicitations, vous venez d'apprendre 3 gros mots en québécois... A l'heure de la sortie en DVD du très dispensable "Bienvenue chez les ch'tis", je me suis intéressée, expatriation oblige, à la production filmographique d'une autre région du folklore...

As it rains almost non-stop during 6 months of the year in Vancouver, I think this idiom will be very useful : "It's raining cats and dogs." As you surely would have guessed on your own, it means "il pleut des cordes", but I do prefer the idea of cats...

Today's article draws its inspiration from the news coming from the US this week with the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the privatization of AIG and the $150 billion economic stimulus plan proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to reduce the slowing...

I've just watch the movie "Juno" (very nice by the way) and would like to share with you two idioms that I've particularly liked : - The first one is an expression: "Go fly a kite!", which means something like "Va te faire cuire un oeuf!" but in a much...

So, in 6 months from now we'll be leaving France to live our big adventure across the Atlantic Ocean, and it might be a good idea to work on improving our knowledge of American/Canadian-English. For a start, let's learn some vocabulary... but not the...