Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. It’s important to know how to greet people and respond in French. You can practise greetings in French with this ...

Le check - roughly pronounced luh check - may seem like the French word for the bill/check (that would be l'addition), but it is actually a type of informal greeting in France. But in an informal ...

Don't go saying this to your chief, though!" Its origin as a greeting is a little obscure but the word also means Cuckoo in French, so it's possible that it began as baby talk from people ...

La bise', the traditional French way of greeting one another with a kiss on each cheek, might not make it in the post-COVID world. The French greeting is a tradition dating back to the Romans ...

In France, the bise is a longstanding tradition for greeting loved ones, or even strangers, that was upended by the coronavirus. Throughout the pandemic, French authorities have urged people to ...