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Yelle if you love Fridays! Posted by Jennie on May 9, 2010
Say it with me: Dieu merci, c’est vendredi! (Ou bien, c’était vendredi… Dieu merci, c’est le weekend!) If you’ve been in a European club in the last few years, or at 2008’s music festival Coachella, vous connaissez peut-être (you might know) YELLE. YELLE consists of a singer (named Yelle), a writer, and a producer who…
French Slang Expressions with the Letter C Posted by Hichem on May 6, 2010
Un petit coucou à Nel Farias et Héla Zouaghi, ainsi qu’à tous les fans de “Learn French” sur Facebook. Sans plus de cérémonie (without further ado), we continue the B.A.-BA with la lettre ‘C.’ C comme… (C, as in…) * Cabot: The name Cabot in the US evokes the prestige of the so-called blue-blooded “Boston Brahmins”, which include among others the Lowells…
Work it! Posted by Jennie on May 6, 2010
Today we are going to aborder (discuss) a topic of which I have only une vague compréhension: l’exercice! En fait, j’aime bien faire de l’exercice (In fact, I like doing exercise). In Paris, my host sister introduced me to the local piscine municipale (city pool), which was conveniently on the way to the world’s finest boutique…
French Slang Expressions with the Letter B (bis) Posted by Hichem on May 5, 2010
Before we continue le B.A.-BA de l’Argot (the ABC of French Slang), let’s say merci to Jennie for her posts: Ils déchirent un max ! (Translation? It will most likely be in the ‘D’ letter of the B.A.-BA…) We saw last time bachoter; bagnole; barbant; barge/bargeot; se barrer; baston. I must also say a special merci to mon…
The Burqa Ban in Belgium Posted by Jennie on Apr 30, 2010
Aujourd’hui, on va aborder (today we’re going to tackle) un sujet assez chaud (a pretty hot subject). I know this blog is about la langue et la culture françaises, and I hope you’re learning both from reading it. Today’s topic is at the center of la discussion actuelle (the current discussion) on French culture and…
The ABCs of French Slang: B Expressions Posted by Hichem on Apr 28, 2010
Aujourd’hui, nous allons couvrir la lettre ‘B’ (Today, we shall cover the letter ‘B’.) * Bachoter: Meaning to study crazily hard. For example: “Pour devenir un énarque, tu dois bachoter comme un dingue!” (“In order to become an énaque, you must study like crazy!”) What is an “énarque“? Well, see for yourself “What is an Énarque?” (https://blogs.transparent.com/french/what-is-an-enarque/)…
Ces petits riens Posted by Jennie on Apr 28, 2010
Il pleut (it’s raining) in New York, and all I want is to curl up with un verre de vin and …Serge. Serge Gainsbourg is un auteur-compositeur-interprète et cinéaste français: a French songwriter-composer-singer and filmmaker. I’ve mentioned him before, in a post about eating breakfast in the mornings in Paris and listening to the radio…