Verbs to use with time and money

Time is Money! In English we think of time as a commodity that can be bought, invested in, lost or wasted, just like money. You will often hear people using the same verbs for time that they use for money: to spend money (dépenser de l’argent) to spend time (passer du temps) to save money [...]

Telling Time

One story I often tell in class is about what happened to me one day on the Old Port in Marseille. I thought I could understand the question ‘Quelle heure est-il s’il vous plaît?’, because that is what I had learned in school. However, on this particular day, a young man approached me and said, [...]