My Hundredth post! Mon centième post!

Voila! That’s it! This is my 100th post! To celebrate this event, I have created a collage of my best Boston snapshot. Also, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for stopping by and leaving wonderful and touching comments for which I am very grateful. Since I started this blog, I found this experience to be not only an exciting journey but also a great pleasure getting to know you while visiting your blogs where I have discovered amazing photos and texts. I am looking forward to seeing more and send you 100 thanks.

Voilà ! Ca y est ! Voici mon 100ième post. Pour célébrer cet évènement, j’ai créé un collage de mes meilleurs clichés de Boston. Aussi, j’aimerais profiter de cette occasion pour vous remercier tous de vos visites; et je tiens à vous dire que je vous suis très reconnaissante de vos commentaires merveilleux et touchants que vous avez laissés. Depuis le commencement de ce blog, non seulement cela a été un parcours passionnant, mais j’ai eu aussi le plaisir de mieux vous connaître lors de mes visites sur vos blogs où j'y ai découvert des photos et des textes étonnants. En attendant d’en voir beaucoup d’autres, je vous envoie 100 remerciements.

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French Lesson: Vocabulary

French-English cognates:(Part 1):

Many English words are originated from the French language. They belong to the same family.

• The true friends / Les vrais amis.
• The false friends / Les faux amis.

1.The true friends / Les vrais amis:
Below are some of the most common French-English cognates with the same form and meaning

For instance, do you recognize these following words? :
1) some of feminine nouns ending in -ence and -ance such as: séquence, influence, absence, sentence, conséquence, offense, présence, éminence, défense, existence, intelligence, compétence, indulgence, patience, différence... chance, clairvoyance, ignorance, distance, arrogance, importance etc...
2) some of feminine nouns ending in -ture such as: aventure, rupture, culture, structure, torture, agriculture, architecture, sculpture, caricature...
3) a few masculine nouns ending in -age such as: garage, village, courage, mirage, âge...
4) the follwing feminine nouns ending in -age: page, image.
5) a few masculine nouns ending in -ment such as: monument, moment, document, instrument, encouragement, arrangement, condiment...
6) A great number of feminine nouns ending in -tion such as: action, célébration, expression, éducation, notion, réalisation, information, population. And there are many more! so now, let's do a fun French exercise…

French Exercise

Here is a contest:

----> Send me at least 3 English words ending in -tion. If they share the same cognate in French, I will publish them in my next post :-)

Feel free to participate and Bonne chance!