Revue littéraire no. 2 (bis) Posted by Jennie on May 14, 2010
Bonjour! Après avoir discuté (after having discussed) Aimé Césaire on Tuesday, allons explorer son livre (let’s explore his book) Discours sur le colonialisme. Though the discours (speech) first appeared in 1950, the publication by Éditions Présence Africaine dates from 1955. An English translation by Joan Pinkham was published in 1972. D’abord (first), two interesting notes from…
Un conte de fée de l’adorable Capucine! (A Fairytale of the adorable Capucine!) Posted by Hichem on May 12, 2010
Here is une petite fille vraiment adorable (a really adorable little girl.) I don’t know if you had the chance to see this video before, but the way she tells her conte de fée (fairytale) is absolutely remarkable, especially with her unique expressions (for example at 0:28, when she goes: “Comment on dit là où on se protège…
Revue littéraire no. 2 Posted by Jennie on May 12, 2010
After the fun of Balzac’s Sarrasine , it’s time for our deuxième revue littéraire! Aimé Césaire was un poète, un écrivain et un homme politique Martiniquais: a Martinican poet, writer and politician. Né en (born in) Martinique en 1913, Césaire a démenagé (moved) to Paris for high school. There, he began an academic career that included…
YELLE (à tue-tête) if you like “le FRI€” the TTC way Posted by Hichem on May 11, 2010
Of course, this is un clin d’œil humouristique (a humorous wink or allusion) to Jennie’s previous post, “Yelle if you love Fridays!” Jennie is right, YELLE‘s songs were all of a sudden heard “all over” in France, and even reaching other European countries and the United-States: “Elle défrayait la chronique”, as the French expression goes. And like Jennie mentioned, she owed her succès…
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…