Salut tout le monde! J'ai pu constater que les memes mots sont associés a la famille aux Etats-Unis et en France (les parnets, les soeurs, frere, love, amour). La famille semble donc avoir la meme importance des deux côtés. Et la famille constitue un élément important pour les deux. En France, les repas en famille sont des moments clés de la vie de famille. Est-ce que ce n'est pas le cas aux Etats-Unis? A bientot! Maud

I found many of the same words in both the American and the French responses. I think we can conclude that family is a universally defined word. One thing different is that most of us are far away from our families. Are the students at INT living at home or are they also far away from their families?

Meals are an important part of American family life. For me, however, they are most important at holiday times and not as much from day to day. I think this is generally the case, but certainly there are many families who would disagree.

Hi there,

I wanted to pose a few questions about familes to the French. On average, about how big are your families? Do you hang out more with your family and siblings than with your friends? How often do you guys have family reunions and who comes to them (uncles, cousins, grandparents...)?

I find that typical American families have 2 children (usually boy and girl) and that the children usually hang out with their friends more than with their siblings. Familiy reunions happen on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Would Americans agree with my description?

Salut! Merci pour vos réponses. J'aimerais aussi répondre aux votres. D'abord, nous, c'est-à-dire ceux qui font partie de Cultura sont en première année à l'INT. Nous avons donc eu droit à une chambre au Campus. Je dirais que même si beaucoup plus petit que celui du MIT, le campus est très vivant et la vie associative est très active. Pour ce qui est du domicile des familles, cela dépend. Certaines familles n'habitent pas loin et certains élèves rentrent tous les weekend. D'autres habitent plus loin, un peu partout en France, il ont donc plus dur de rentrer tout le temps. Moi personnellemnt je ne suis pas française, ma famille habite à l'étranger et je ne rentre que pendant les vacances. Je pense donc que ce serait mieux si un vrai Français répondait aux questions du nombre d'enfants par famille et des réunions familliales. A bientôt! Maud

Hi there, I can't really comment that much on the typical American family since I am not American. But where I come from, we have family reunions every week. How often do french families meet?

Maud,

You aren't really French?! Where are you from, and have you spoken french your whole life?

Chidinma

I'm just going to have a little fun here and try to predict from which country Maud comes from:

Maud says that she only goes home on vacation, which would probably mean that her home is 500-1000 km away from Paris. Also, given that Maud is very fluent in French, I would assume that French is an official language of that country.

For some reason, the name Maud Hansen reminds me of the Swiss Alps. Therefore, Switzerland would be my first guess. I think Belgium would be my second guess, simply becasue French is spoken there as well. For my third guess, I will pick Luxembourg, another one of the Low Countries where French is spoken.

So Maud, are any of my predictions correct? To summarize, my guesses are the following:

1. Switzerland 2. Belgium 3. Luxembourg