My 5 Favourite Potter en Français Translations PART 1

As promised in my mid-year resolution that I made in September, I have been reading Harry Potter in French for the first time lately. This afternoon, as I picked up Le Prisonnier d'Azkaban, I was excited, not just because it has been a pleasure to return to the wizarding world, but because some of the translations for…

History in Context: From hating history to, well what exactly?

I despised history lessons when I was at school. For the most part, it was limited to British history and I was more interested in the rest of the world. For the other part, I took the attitude 'why are we focussing on the past?' or, as the SSX Tricky character would yell, 'the past…

An attempt at not forgetting 17 years of French

It has been three months since I finished my degree! What! While I've always been good at keeping up with the literature side of my degree, the French side can be a little harder to slot into everyday life (without moving to France that is, believe me - I'm trying). I was reading at least…