I had to deal with “teal”, the color of the pen she wanted to use to take notes. I had no idea what ‘teal’ looks like. The French is sarcelle.
We talked about her grandmother in the same way we did my autobiography.
She connected ‘loin’ to ‘lointaine’ of ‘une terre lointaine’. She got ‘reborn’ out of ‘renaissance’ though I first gave ‘naissance’ and its Eng ‘birth.’
She was amused that ‘small town’ is ‘ville de province.’
I had to look up ‘traffic light’ – feu.
I introduced the use of -la with ce, as in ces temps-la