What makes a perfect Valentine's Day? (Bilingual article)

"What makes a perfect Valentine's Day? (Bilingual article)" has been shared to the blog from the French reading exercises section of the learning library where you can find a large selection of interactive texts to help you with your reading skills. This article also has audio for you to practice your French listening skills; you can find many more listening activities in the French listening practice section.


Valentine's DayThis bilingual article with audio describes two very different holidays – and what a difference!

Listen to the audio and read the French text. You can click to see translations and related grammar (you can then add them to your notebook if you’re signed in and kwiz yourself on your chosen topics).

There’s a kwiz at the end for you to test some of the French grammar contained in the article.

Click any word in the text to see its translation and related grammar lessons.

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Aurélie Drouard

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!