Ways to Help with NYC Hurricane Relief

Salut Fluent City Family,

We hope you are all safe, dry and living with electricity. Here are few ways to help out in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy:

Signup for a class and Fluent City will donate $20 to Hurricane Relief!

Fluent City will donate $20 to Sandy Relief Efforts for every class signup made by Wednesday, November 7th. Local businesses have been hit badly by the hurricane. We need your help to get the NYC small business economy going so that we can continue our awesome classes! Help us by signing up for your next class AND contribute to the Red Cross at the same time. We pledge to donate a portion of every class signup directly to hurricane relief with the goal of donating $500 dollars by Monday afternoon. Do your part to help New York rebuild and recover while saving a spot for your next language class!

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5 Reasons why Tel Aviv is better than NYC!

by Aylam Orian

NYC is one awesome city, no doubt about it. “The Capital of the World”, the center of the world’s finances, entertainment, education, fashion, art, and more. But hey, before you get too happy about living here, have you ever been to Tel Aviv? Many Israelis will tell you that all things considered, Tel Aviv “puts NYC in its small pocket”, as the saying goes in Hebrew. Here are 5 reasons why, according to one “unbiased Israeli”…

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Which preposition in French for NYC and US geographical locations?

What preposition to use with neighborhoods and boroughs?

The rule is actually easy: if the neighborhood/ borough has no article in English, use the preposition “à”:

Je travaille à Manhattan.
Je vis à Williamsburg.
Je vais à Harlem.

But if there is an article (“the”) in English, use the preposition “dans” and the definite article:

J’habite dans le Bronx,
Je mange au restaurant dans le Lower East Side
Je fais du shopping dans l’East Village
J’ai un appartement dan l’Upper East Side

The only exception to the rule is “Queens”. There is no article in English, but there is one in French: “Le Queens”. So use the preposition “dans” with Queens:

J’habite dans le Queens.

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