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Learning French: jouer à l’oreille and more musical phrases
Fine-tune your music-themed vocabulary for the fête de la musique on June 21
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Small business owners should watch out for incorrect payment demands from La Poste
The mistake stemmed from a ‘technical error’ during the roll-out of a new debt-collection system
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Learning French: nouns that even native speakers commonly misgender
‘The struggle is real’, says our French writer Théophile Larcher - see if you can score higher than him in our mini quiz
Connexion Tip: Display your name
Make sure your family name is on your letter box in France, not just the house name or number.
This can affect deliveries.
When giving out your address, stick to the basics: The number, street, postcode and then town.
You do not need the department (the first two digits of your postcode indicate this). You can check if there are any strange quirks to your address, or find the ideal way to write it here tinyurl.com/French-address-check