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Une seconde, une minute, une heure Posted by Hichem on Sep 18, 2011
Today, you will review with us the basic unités du temps (units of time.) * D’abord (first), il y a la seconde (there’s the second.) “Le tour du monde en 80 secondes” (“Around the world in 80 seconds”)! Directed by two voyageurs: Romain Pergeaux and Alex Profit. A project completed in only 3 semaines (3 weeks.) This route is a tribute to the famous Jules Verne’s…
Meet the Craziest French Prankster On the Planet Posted by Hichem on Aug 25, 2011
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few years, you must have seen or heard of the hilariously crazy phénomène called “RÉMI GAILLARD”… If not, then my friends, il est grand temps (it’s high time) for you to discover him!
Madame JE-SAIS-TOUT (and more of the ABC of French Slang!) Posted by Hichem on Sep 29, 2010
Today in our ABCs of French slang, we’re on la lettre ‘J.‘ “J comme…” (“J as in…”) * Je-m’en-foutisme: In his book “The Devil in France – My Encounter with Him in the Summer of 1940” (during the Nazi invasion of France, that is), le dramaturge (playwright) Lion Feuchtwanger defines Je-m’en-foutisme as “an attitude toward life…
“Foule Sentimentale” by Alain Souchon Posted by Hichem on Sep 23, 2010
After Charles Aznavour and mes amis arméniens (regardez La Bohème (Charles Aznavour)), here comes the turn of my many amis russes, who love listening to Patricia Kaas -among others- probably more than French people do today in France! Ever since the time of Pierre Ier de Russie, known as “Pierre le Grand” (“Peter the Great”), Russians have been…
Encore, Édith PIAF !—“Milord” Posted by Hichem on Sep 18, 2010
Vous avez été nombreux la dernière fois à aimer la célèbre chanson de Édith Piaf intitulée “Non, je ne regrette rien” (You have been many last time to like the famous Édith Piaf song titled “No, I regret nothing”), which you can find here: “Non, je ne regrette rien! (Édith Piaf).” Another famous song by Édith Piaf -whose real nom…
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…