Best Pottery Painting in Paris: We Tested Biscuit Atelier
There’s so much more to Paris than its most popular tourist attractions, and as Americans living in France, we love finding new things to see and do in the city of light. Two weeks ago, we signed up for a…
The Truth About Not Turning Our Hobby Into a Job
In 2019, just before we moved to France for the first time, Maria and I started making content together as The Francofile. Nearly four years later, the three motivations we listed in our very first YouTube video for sharing our…
We Stopped Studying French: What Happens After Excellent Language Mastery
Maria began learning French in an American high school classroom at 14 years old, and my French-language journey began just after my 18th birthday. It’s been nearly a decade since Maria introduced me to le français, and four years since…
Commonly Misused Foreigner-in-France Terms You Need to Keep Straight
As Americans in France who share the ins and outs of our life abroad online, Jalen and I know that our audience looks to us for reliable information. However, our followers are also tuning in to other content creators who…
Sarah Donnelly’s “The Only American in Paris” Review: Unparalleled Comedy
Last Saturday, after spending the afternoon in Paris, Jalen and I headed to the Théâtre BO Saint Martin to do something we’ve never done before in France: see a comedy show! From the second we started following stand-up comedian Sarah…
Learning Languages with a GPT-3 Chatbot: Exciting Artificial Intelligence
Recently, I was scrolling through my Twitter feed and happened upon a tweet from Memrise, a language learning app, that made a bold claim. Apparently, practicing a language with a GPT-3 chatbot is better than doing so with a human!…
