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      <description>These articles that had the largest increase in popularity over the last week</description>
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            <title><![CDATA[French Agreement with Compound Verbs]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/weekly/bl-agreement-cvt.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Test yourself on agreement with French compound verbs.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Singulars and Plurals]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/od/grammar/a/singularplural.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Nouns are not always singular in both French and English. Here is a list of words that are singular or uncountable in English but plural or countable in French.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Obstiner - Mot du Jour]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/od/vocabulary/g/obstiner.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[What does the French word obstiner mean? How is it pronounced and used?]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[French Adverbs - Les Adverbes]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl_adverbst.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[French for beginners: test on introduction French adverbs]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[T - French Pronunciation]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/od/pronunciation/a/t.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn how to pronounce the letter T in French&#160;with this detailed lesson and sound files.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Books by Peter Mayle]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/od/toppicks/tp/petermayle.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Anyone interested in France or French is certain to have read Peter Mayle's best-selling &quot;A Year in Provence.&quot; Did you know that he has written about other things too? In addition to two Provence sequels, Peter Mayle has written three novels set in Provence and a couple of books on other topics. If you're looking for something funny and interesting to read, any of these books will fit the bill.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[French Mood Vocabulary]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Learn how to talk about your mood in French.: sans serif font document url french test body background background color]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[French Vocabulary - Hobbies, Sports, Games]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl-hobbiest.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Test on vocabulary for hobbies, sports, and games in French.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Argot - French Slang - M]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/vocab/argot/bl-argot-m.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn French slang - entries include pronunciation, definitions, and sample sentences.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Teaching Resources - Numbers - French for Kids - Learn to Count in French]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/teachers/kids/bl-kids-num-1.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A lesson on French numbers for kids, with sound files and graphics.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Assimilation]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/cs/pronunciation/a/assimilation.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Assimilation is a pronunciation phenomenon which causes consonant sounds to change according to the sounds that surround them. More specifically, assimilation occurs when voiced and unvoiced sounds are combined. Because it can be difficult to pronounce voiced and unvoiced sounds together, one or the other is assimilated: either a normally voiced consonant becomes unvoiced or a normally unvoiced consonant becomes voiced.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Liaisons - French Pronunciation]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/pronunciation/bl-liaisons-r.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A detailed lesson on required liaisons in French.: grammar pronunciation pronunciation table exact pronunciation french pronunciation nominal group]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Important People in Francophone History - French Culture Quiz]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/weekly/bl-peoplequiz.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[French culture quiz: important Francophones.: sans serif font culture quiz document url french culture body background]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[False Cognates ~ Faux amis]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/cs/vocabulary/a/falsecognates_3.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[French and English have hundreds of cognates (words which look and/or are pronounced alike in the two languages), including true (similar meaning), false (different meanings), and semi-false (some similar and some different meanings). My alphabetized list of hundreds of false cognates can be a bit unwieldy, so here is an abridged version of the most common false cognates in French and English.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Baigner - French Verb]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/od/verb_conjugations/a/baigner.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn how to conjugate baigner, a regular -er French verb.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[French-Speaking Celebrities]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/od/teachingresources/a/celebrities.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[If your students don't see any point in learning French, maybe Jodie Foster and Johnny Depp can help: we've compiled a list of famous non-native French speakers around the world - if your students know how many cool people speak French, they might realize how cool French really is!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[French Emergency Vocabulary - French terms related to emergencies and disasters]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl-emergencyt.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[French vocabulary in case of emergency.: sans serif font french terms document url french test body background]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Today in Francophone History]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/bl-today.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Learn about famous francophone birthdays, holidays and celebrations, and other milestones.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Countries of the World]]></title>
            <link>http://french.about.com/library/vocab/pays/bl-countries-q.htm</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A list of the countries of the world in English with French equivalents.]]></description>
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