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Travaillez votre anglais maintenant!

Vous cherchez à apprendre l’anglais gratuitement -voici quelques idées qui pourraient vous aider: 1. Téléchargez mon livre de grammaire anglaise. Des explications en anglais faciles à comprendre. Disponible gratuitement en version PDF. Vous trouverez d’autres fichiers très utiles à télécharger – conversation, e-mails, jeux…      2. Suivez-moi sur Twitter Recevez des tweets sur votre [...]

Don’t learn English like this!

There’s a funny kind of soap opera on France Inter around 6pm, this one is about an English lesson about politics. Listen to it here: It’s not all correct: un (homme) politique : a politician une politique : a policy – the government’s policy on immigration has been severely criticised voter : to vote un [...]

A History of Cocoa

In the ancient world, cocoa only existed in its purest form and was known only for its medicinal value. For many centuries this pure form of cocoa was revered by all and trusted for its beneficial use in cases like fever, heart pain, emaciation, fatigue, kidney and bowel complaints. There is historical evidence that points [...]

How’s your pronunciation? (funny video)

A funny video that highlights the problem some people have pronouncing the sound “th”. The sailor says “we are sinking” (nous sommes en train de couler) to which the coastguard replies, “what are you thinking about?” (à quoi pensez-vous?)

New Things Coming Up On The Site!

It’s been a long time since I added any new content to the site – I’m sorry! During the summer I thought a lot about how I could make anglais-facile.com more useful for you, and perhaps a little more profitable for me. I recently registered a business (auto-entrepreneur in the French system) and so I [...]

England versus Algeria – Why I’m supporting Algeria tonight

England started the world cup as one of the favourites – they always do, and they always disappoint us. Basically a bunch of overpaid yobbos who can’t rise to the occasion probably because they get so much money playing club football that playing for their country isn’t really that important. I don’t see why I [...]

Probably the best guitarist in the world: Pierre Bensusan

La femme cambrée (The Arched Back Woman) If you lived in the United States, and were a fan of acoustic guitar music, folk, celtic, contemporary or jazz, you would surely know who Pierre Bensusan is. In fact, he appears regularly of the covers of guitar magazines and is often voted ‘best fingerstyle guitarist in the [...]

My new assistant

It’s hard being a one-man website, so I decided get some help. Unfortunately, Muffin only sleeps in my in-tray and his typing skills are useless – just lines of wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww and jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj. Plus the irrestible urge to squeeze him, that distracts me from my work – he’ll have to find another place for his siestas… [...]

Register

Register is a very important word in language learning. What does it mean? Put simply, register is the level of language we choose to use according to the situation. There are things that we would say to our friends, that we probably wouldn’t say if we happened to meet the Prime Minister, or the President. [...]

The Berlin Wall

image: http://www.photoeverywhere.co.uk Today (9th November 2009) is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The wall was constructed in the early 1960s and was intended to stop mass emmigration to the west from East Germany, especially young, skilled workers and scientists (the ‘brain drain’). Important events that led to the fall of [...]