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InformationVideo published by BBC Scotland Cette vidéo plutôt drôle est jouée par Limmy’s Homemade, un Youtubeur à succès avec beaucoup de talent. Il nous raconte une petite histoire drôle, sans la moindre parole, tout est dans le regard et les expressions du visage.

A dictionary is not just a list: it is a landscape. By stacking words in alphabetical order, it unintentionally draws records, symmetries and oddities that nobody notices. I wanted to flush them out by sifting through nearly 197,000 French words. Here are my four favorite finds. 1. « oiseau », champion of concision French has five vowels — a,...

InformationVideo published by French Morning French people are interviewed in the street and asked to pronounce difficult words in English. A video that is probably funnier for English speakers than for us :)

InformationVideo published by Beck Wenger In this video, Beck Wenger explains how to use a harmonica without using words. Through explanatory gestures, she shows how to breathe into it and make notes. A rather interesting performance, because this lesson is accessible to the whole planet without any language barrier.

In English, keyboard lovers know a little treasure: « stewardesses », eleven letters, is typed entirely with the left hand on a QWERTY keyboard. Nobody, it seems, had asked the question for French. So I did — by sifting through nearly 197,000 words. The champion may surprise you. A silly question, a precise answer On an AZERTY keyboard,...