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Jackie, Motherhood

Advice for Each Decade of Life & Surrender: A Mother Daughter update

Would this picture be good for the La Ciotat postcard series? Thanks for your helpful feedback and for your postcard orders this week! I am enjoying the quiet, mindful activity of addressing envelopes and my handwriting is slowly improving 🙂 TODAY’S WORD: s'abandonner : to surrender yourself to, to unburden yourself  A DAY IN A FRENCH LIFE by Kristi Espinasse As I walked into Le … Continue reading Advice for Each Decade of Life & Surrender: A Mother Daughter update

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Celebrations

A Special Request + Playground in French (and wild and free learning!)

The little stone cabanon at our vineyard. Do you remember the heart door?  Today's Word: la cour de récréation     : playground, schoolyard Audio/Listening: Click the link below to hear Jean-Marc pronounce the French words in the following story. Then scroll down to the vocabulary list to check your French comprehension. Click here to begin listening A (Birth)DAY IN A FRENCH LIFE by Kristi Espinasse … Continue reading A Special Request + Playground in French (and wild and free learning!)

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Uncategorized

Quitter + Beyond bye-bye: Good ideas for ending a letter, an email, or a visit with a friend

Passion for Provence: 22 Keys to La Belle Vie tells the tale of Americans Gayle and Ralph falling for France on their Mediterranean honeymoon and finally making it home—over two decades later. Part love story, part travel tale, part can-do, this humorous, spirited memoir will have you packing your bags for Provence for a sweet sojourn or possibly a longer stay. Recently, the book was … Continue reading Quitter + Beyond bye-bye: Good ideas for ending a letter, an email, or a visit with a friend

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Etiquette

Best way to sign off or end an email in French: How to say “goodbye” or “cheers” or “sincerely”?

A shopfront in Le Panier–a quartier in Marseilles. Scroll down for a list of ways to sign off email correspondence. TODAY'S WORD: QUITTER  1. to leave, to quit  2. to give up, vacate, forsake, abandon  3. to exit LISTEN: Hear Jean-Marc pronounce today's quote: Download wav  Il faut se quitter souvent pour s'aimer toujours.  We must leave each other often in order to love each other … Continue reading Best way to sign off or end an email in French: How to say “goodbye” or “cheers” or “sincerely”?

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