In its 2025 edition, the French encyclopedic dictionary Larousse highlights stars like Beyoncé and LeBron James among 150 new words. Anyone who has listened to Beyoncé’s “Partition” has ...

This French word is normally associated with the Vatican, but it has taken on a new meaning in French politics too.

Because if you read The Local’s word of the day consistently ... At the end of the 19th century, royalist factions opposed to the new French Republic called it La Gueuse as an insult.

The way you say a word is called pronunciation. In French, there are some sounds that are different to English sounds. Even if a word looks the same and means the same thing, the way that you say ...