Archive for September, 2010
How to Learn French in One Very Simple Step Posted by Jennie on Sep 15, 2010
Step One: Démenagez au Canada. Move to Canada. That’s all it takes. I’ve been here depuis dimanche, and I forgot how amazing it is to be in a country where everything is labeled in French. But even better than actual France, le tout Canadais bilingue, so everything is labeled in French and then translated! Incroyable…
Monsieur Jean-Claude Van Dam Posted by Hichem on Sep 14, 2010
We are not talking about “Schwartzie” (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s nickname in France, or “Arnie” for everyone else) with his most notorious: “I’ll Be Back.“ Non, pas du tout (no, not at all), this time the one who is making a comeback is another acteur, whose first shot to fame came at about the same time as Schwartzie’s, although the two actors do…
“Demain, dès l’aube”—La fille de Victor Hugo (Victor Hugo’s daughter) Posted by Hichem on Sep 10, 2010
After the post where we introduced Charles Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” (“The Flowers of Evil”), today we discover yet another poem, but this time from another grande figure of the French literature. It is le seul, l’unique (the one and only) Victor Hugo. Though mostly acclaimed outside of France for his roman (novel) “Les Misérables” and its celebrated héro Jean Valjean, Victor Hugo remains nevertheless as…
La Bohème (Charles Aznavour) Posted by Hichem on Sep 3, 2010
Pour donner enfin satisfaction à mes amis arméniens (To give at last satisfaction to my Armenian friends), today’s DMCV post is dedicated to the most French of all contemporary Armenians, l’artiste qui de nos jours se passe de toute présentation (the artist who nowadays doesn’t preclude any introduction.) It’s Charles Aznavour, the voice behind the…
How do you feel about French vegetables? Posted by Hichem on Sep 2, 2010
When you were très jeune (very young), did you enjoy eating all types of vegetables, or only a select few? Did you have the kind of dream parents who indulge you with the luxury of choosing what you want to eat, or did they force-feed you toutes les légumes sans exception (all the vegetables, no exception) because -they always said-…