Laura K. Lawless's Blog: Lawless Languages, page 18

Cinco de Mayo Song

The history of Mexico's holiday summarized in a cute, catchy song.

Published on Lawless Spanish

           

Impersonal Pronouns

Impersonal pronouns do not have different forms for each grammatical person, though some have different forms that agree with the nouns they replace.

Published on Lawless French

         

Je n’en reviens pas

You won't be able to get over the surprising French expression je n'en reviens pas.

Published on Lawless French

         

Spanish Fluency Club

From Yabla, with their huge selection of authentic videos, comes a terrific new daily study feature called Fluency Club. Every day, you listen to a short video clip and then do a set of exercises, including a dictation and speaking.

Published on Lawless Spanish

           

Le muguet – Adjective Agreement Quiz

Test yourself on French adjective agreement with this fill-in-the-blanks exercise:

   La tradition du muguet en France

Note: You must be logged into your Progress with Lawless French account to take this test. If you don't have one, sign up - it's free!

Published on Lawless French

         

Cercare il pelo nell’uovo

Try not to nitpick as you learn about the Italian idiom cercare il pelo nell'uovo.

Published on Lawless Italian

         

Fête du Travail

Learn about International Labor Day on the first of May in this cute animated video.

Published on Lawless French

         

Pretérito vs Imperfecto

The trickiest aspect of the two most important Spanish past tenses is that they often work together, juxtaposed not only throughout stories, but even within individual sentences. Understanding the contrasting relationship between the pretérito and imperfecto is essential to communicating in Spanish.

Published on Lawless Spanish

           

Countries and Continents

Some countries have the same name in French and English, many have slight variations, and a few are completely different. This page has countries listed alphabetically by the English name; you can also see them listed alphabetically by the French name.

Published on Lawless French

         

Déjà vu

If you haven't seen this lesson on the French expression déjà vu, you don't know what you're missing.

Published on Lawless French