Category Archives: culture

Singing “Happy Birthday” in French

One great way to show off your French language skills to friends and family is to serenade them  – en français – on their birthdays.  There are a couple ways to do this.  If you’re a beginner, you can use the English Happy Birthday melody and replace “happy birthday” with “joyeux anniversaire” like this: Joyeux…

Faire la Bise: When, who, how, how many?

To kiss or not to kiss, that is the question or at least it’s one of the questions that non-Europeans often ask themselves when greeting a French person. To some Americans, it might seem the French are always kissing each other. In France and other French-speaking countries, people kiss their family members, friends, even their…