Ever heard of people identifying as July vacationers vs August vacationers? France has names for that 😅 This episode dives into vacation culture and school life and Macron wanting to shorten summer holidays, France’s July vs August tribes, and Germany’s rotating school breaks so 80 million people don’t travel on the same day.

If you’re trying to learn German or learn French, this one is packed with the kind of real-life language you actually hear when people talk about school, kids, and the emotional chaos of “back to reality.”

Words you’ll learn (and actually remember):

• Les grandes vacances (France’s legendary summer break)
• La rentrée scolaire (the national “back to school / back to life” reset)
• Juilletistes & Aoûtiens (France’s July vs. August vacation tribes)
• Schultüte (Germany’s candy-filled first-day-of-school tradition)
• Ferienhort (holiday childcare: German parent survival mode)

Also: no school on Wednesdays (France?!), school supply lists that feel like military planning, graduation pranks, Mallorca class trips, and why German canteens sometimes get compared to Autobahn gas stations.

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