{"id":22574,"date":"2015-10-28T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=22574"},"modified":"2017-10-24T11:49:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T09:49:38","slug":"back-to-le-futur-in-version-francaise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/back-to-le-futur-in-version-francaise\/","title":{"rendered":"Back To Le Futur in Version Fran\u00e7aise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week was <strong>le jour<\/strong> (the day) that <em>Marty McFly<\/em> went into the future, but with <strong>le voyage dans le temps<\/strong> (time-travel), being off by a week doesn&#8217;t matter too much. There&#8217;s still plenty of time to watch the movie in French!<\/p>\n<p>The title of the film is <strong>une traduction litt\u00e9rale<\/strong> (a literal translation):<\/p>\n<p><em>Retour vers l\u00e9 futur<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Le film<\/strong> (the movie) is just as iconic in France as it is in the US. All the talk about <strong>le film<\/strong> reminded me of one of the best ways to practice French.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than watching <strong>les films <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/editors-note-understanding-acronyms-and-abbreviations\/\">en VO<\/a><\/strong> (movies in their original langauge, <em>Version Originale<\/em>), find <strong>les films en VF<\/strong> (movies dubbed in French, <em>Version Fran\u00e7aise<\/em>)! It&#8217;s <strong>bizarre<\/strong> watching <strong>un film en VF<\/strong><em>,<\/em> because the lips don&#8217;t exaclty match the dialogue, but it&#8217;s easier to follow the story if you&#8217;re already familar with it and, more importantly, already know you like it.<\/p>\n<p>Par exemple (for example), I watch <em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> <strong>en VF<\/strong> for hours to have a relaxing way to practice French when I&#8217;m too tired to sit down and study textbooks with all their grammar and vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don&#8217;t like <strong>les films en VF<\/strong>, it&#8217;s worth trying to give yourself a new way to practice and a new way to appreciate your <strong>films pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9s<\/strong> (favorite movies)!<\/p>\n<p>To return to <em>Retour vers le futur<\/em>, Here&#8217;s <strong>la bande annonce du film<\/strong> (the trailer for the movie):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8gwpdm_AqDY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8gwpdm_AqDY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/5140672916_61fb5a8eeb_o-350x274.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/5140672916_61fb5a8eeb_o-350x274.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/10\/5140672916_61fb5a8eeb_o.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>Last week was le jour (the day) that Marty McFly went into the future, but with le voyage dans le temps (time-travel), being off by a week doesn&#8217;t matter too much. There&#8217;s still plenty of time to watch the movie in French! The title of the film is une traduction litt\u00e9rale (a literal translation): Retour&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/back-to-le-futur-in-version-francaise\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":22575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22574","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28849,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574\/revisions\/28849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}