Allergies and hay fever in French: rhume des foins, rhinite

Is it a cold or maybe hay fever? With so much blossoming going on, and le printemps around the corner, it is probably le rhume des foins causing this sneezing and stuffy nose and not simply le rhume. TODAY'S WORD: le rhume des foins         : hay fever, rhinitis EXAMPLE SENTENCE & Audio File Démangeaisons du nez, éternuements, écoulement nasal clair, sensation de nez bouché … Continue reading Allergies and hay fever in French: rhume des foins, rhinite

muse

Who (or what) is your muse? For me it can be a scene, like this one… and suddenly inspiration comes! Photo taken in Les Arcs-sur-Argens, where we lived from 1999-2007.  I tried to find a French synonym for une muse, but I landed on a French definition instead. Here it is, along with the day's story, written two summers ago: une muse (myooz)     : une … Continue reading muse