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- Our French tutors are native speakers with years of teaching experience.
- You can choose to learn at home or at work, we come to you.
- You can have French lessons on one-to-one basis or in small groups.
- We teach everyone, from complete beginners to advanced, at a great price.
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Definition: Nerve

• Expressions:
• porter/taper sur les nerfs de qqun – to get on someone’s nerves;
• avoir ses nerfs – to have a fit of nerves;
• Allons du nerf ! – Come on! Buck up!
• avoir les nerfs en boule / avoir les nerfs en pelote – to be edgy, tense
• avoir les nerfs malades – to suffer from nerves
• avoir les nerfs à toute épreuve / avoir les nerfs d’acier – to have nerves of steel

Related: nerveux – nervous
Related: un raté - failure, flop, misfiring (of a gun or motor)

Lauren learns French

A few French phrases to get you started:

Hello = Bonjour
Goodbye = Au revoir
Yes = Oui
No = Non
I speak (a little) French  = Je parle (un peu de) français
Do you speak English? = Parlez-vous anglais?
How do you say… in French? = Comment dit-on….. en français?
I don’t understand = Je ne comprends pas
Okay = D’accord
And = Et
Who = Qui
What = Quoi
When = Quand
Where = où
Why = pourquoi
How = comment

Tucked away in the Rocks is the best little French cafe in Sydney. La Renaissance.

Wander through the shop into a spacious Parisian style courtyard where you can enjoy their delicious food for breakfast lunch or afternoon tea. Lovely Pies, pastries, sandwiches and above all cakes!

Visit the La Renaissance website.

A classic piece by the Flight of the conchords lads.

The luminous Audrey Tautou stars as legendary fashion designer Coco Chanel in the new biopic from director Anne Fontaine (Nathalie…, In His Hands), based on the Chanel biography L’Irreguliere (The Nonconformist) by author Edmonde Charles-Roux

In an orphanage, silently standing next to a perfectly made bed, is a frail and slender ten-year-old girl with thick black hair. Gabrielle Chanel, known as Coco. COCO AVANT CHANEL is the story of the path taken by Coco from her obscure beginnings to the blinding lights of Paris.

On now at Palace Cinemas.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could understand the French Language and Culture through popular phrases? VoulezVouloz is here to help. We’ve gathered together some popular French idioms for you to use and pass yourself off as a real Frenchie!

Avoir un pil dans la main = (to have a hair in one’s hand) = to shy away from work, to avoid work at all costs.

Definition: to misfire, miss, fail, bungle, miscarry, mess up

• Fais attention ! Le fusil peut rater. – Be careful! The rifle could misfire.
• Elle a raté le train pour Paris. - She missed the train to Paris.
• Le project a raté parce que Paul n’y a pas contribué. - The project failed because Paul didn’t contribute to it.
• Tu as raté ta vie ! – You’ve messed up your life!

Related: un raté - failure, flop, misfiring (of a gun or motor)

Eddie Izzard on the joys of learning French.