Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous
Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since. She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!
Posts by Aurélie
Famed French-Armenian singer passed away in October 2018. Watch this video highlighting aspects of his talented career, then scroll down for the transcript in our bilingual reader. more »
Test your French writing and listening skills with self-scoring exercises, levels A1, A2, B1, B2, and C1. more »
Test yourself on French possessive adjectives with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise. more »
Get an (exaggerated) idea about French as it's spoken in Savoie in this humorous sketch by Les Inconnus (a famous French trio of humorists from the 90's). more »
Test your French writing and listening skills with self-scoring exercises, levels A1, A2, B1, B2, and C1. more »
Test yourself on French bathroom vocabulary with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise. more »
Former French president and mayor of Paris Jacques Chirac passed away on 26 September 2019. Learn about the legacy of this political animal in this video from France24. more »
Test your French writing and listening skills with self-scoring exercises, levels A1, A2, B1, B2, and C1. more »
Test yourself on French future conjugations with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise. more »
Ready for two minutes of women's history? Listen to French kids talking about renowned scientist Marie Curie in this cute video. more »
