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🇫🇷 France

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🇫🇷 France

🇮🇹 Italy

🇱🇧 Lebanon

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French food is known throughout the world as the most refined, extravagant and surprising.

Typical dishes : "Blanquette de veau", "Magret de canard" and "Cassoulet"

Many dishes center around the concept of mezze, a dining style that composes an entire meal through a spread of small plates like tabbouleh, hummus, kibbeh, falafel...



The cuisine of Italy is noted for its regional diversity, abundance of difference in taste, and is known to be one of the most popular in the world.

Pizza and spaghetti are especially popular abroad

The family is the most important aspect of an Italian’s life. Although most Italians seek autonomy and independence, many stays at home for years into their adulthood.

Kindness, honesty, love and friendship

Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

Family and Friends are very important in an French's life. Moreover relations at work or on the street in France are quite convivial.

French people are direct, honest and friendly

In their spare time, when indicate a time, Italians implicitly mean to give a 15-minute window to arrive. This habit is more widespread in southern Italy, while in the north people are more punctual.

When it comes to work and deadlines, Italians are quite punctual

Because there is a significant emphasis on family honour in Lebanon, people often operate with the protection of their family reputation in mind. Therefore, when confronted by criticism of their family, people may react by interpreting the facts in such a way as to prevent the discrediting of their family.

Family cohesion and solidarity is considered to be fundamentally important to the Lebanese

In France, we're not always early, we're not always late, and we're not always on time : it's a surprise

Italians' philosophy of life is based on love, simplicity, company, wellbeing, cheerfulness and tradition.

Patience is a virtue, from eating meals to nurturing relationships to taking vacations. And if you need a riposo, or to run errands afterward, go for it.

A unique cultural history has paved the way for Lebanese food to be categorized as one most popular of Middle Eastern cuisines. The food of Lebanese culture is a celebration of life; it’s fresh, colorful and incredibly diverse.

lebanese sweets

The base of most Lebanese sweets is Kashta, a filling you’ll find in a lot of desserts. It’s a milk based, cream-like substance which is a bit more consistent.

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The notion of time in France is quite important depending the reason of the appointement or meeting.

French philosophy is based on the contestation of power and the system in place: in other words, we are revolutionaries at heart.

The Lebanese have a looser sense of time and may be late themselves.

The French are also grumpy, but we know how to appreciate the good things in life and how to be romantic.

The French are known for laughing at anything and everything. However, this is not appreciated everywhere

In France, it is very bad manners to eat without waiting for others or leaving the table before everyone else. Meals are moments of conviviality and sharing that must be respected.

The Italian alphabet consists of 21 letters (5 vowels and 16 consonants), to which are added 5 letters, traditionally defined as foreign, 'j' 'k', 'w', 'x', 'y', with which it forms the Latin alphabet.

From the morning up until past lunch, you can say “Buongiorno” (good morning), and to say good evening you would say “buonasera” (good evening). Please note though that people may respond to “buonasera” with “buongiorno” if it is early afternoon and there is plenty of day light.

French is a difficult language to learn because of its genders, verbs, tenses, numbers, chords, rules and its many, irregularities. Moreover, the French language has a very large vocabulary from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The French alphabet is composed of 26 letters. è, é, œ, ê, ë, ô, ö,

French is an Indo-European language of the Romance language family whose speakers are called Francophones.Today, there is more than 300 millions people who speaks French

There are approximately 34 native living spoken languages and related dialects in Italy.

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Sincerity, hospitality, integrity and wariness are the core concept of Lebanese society.

Lebanon is considered as a collectivist culture. People need to belong to a group and rely on others. It is a priority to be willing, generous and contribute to the collective well-being.

Italians gesticulate and move their hands a lot, so they speak both with their mouths and with their bodies.

Lebanese people often address one another as 'habibi', meaning “my love” in Arabic. This is an affectionate way to address friends and family and is used very often and casually.

Lebanon’s official national language is Arabic.

Lebanon’s rich history has a great impact on its language. French, English, and Armenian are wildly spoken.