{"id":24767,"date":"2016-09-29T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=24767"},"modified":"2018-02-27T15:21:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:21:37","slug":"julien-dore-is-back-check-out-his-song-le-lac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/julien-dore-is-back-check-out-his-song-le-lac\/","title":{"rendered":"Julien Dor\u00e9 is Back! Check Out His Song &#8220;Le Lac&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Julien Dor\u00e9 est bien connu en France<\/strong> (Julien Dor\u00e9 is well known in France). After winning the 5th season of <strong>Nouvelle Star<\/strong> (the equivalent of American Idol) in 2007, the Al\u00e8s-born singer\/songwriter has released 3 chart-topping albums and over a dozen singles. He&#8217;s gone on to be a guest judge on The Voice France and was awarded Artist of the Year for <strong>Victoires de la Musique<\/strong> in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, he released 3 promo singles for a yet to be announced album. I think he has a very calming voice, and his striking good looks are a plus for many. But it&#8217;s not just his voice that makes him a fine musician &#8211; homeboy can play the hell out of a ukulele. While it&#8217;s not my favorite instrument, <strong>j&#8217;avoue<\/strong> (I admit) it goes very well with his voice, and I tap my foot to it when listening. The single we&#8217;re looking at today doesn&#8217;t feature the instrument, but it does feature a famous actress from the 90s. Still fun!<\/p>\n<p>All the French bloggers here at Transparent Language are big advocates for learning through music. So much can be done with it at home or in the classroom: discussion questions, cloze activities (removing words from the song and having students fill in the blank &#8211; great for related words in vocabulary you&#8217;re learning), circling certain parts of speech, rewriting the verbs in a different tense, underlining words you don&#8217;t know&#8230; The possibilities are endless!<\/p>\n<p>As usual, I&#8217;m providing a line-by-line translation, but feel free to search for the lyrics, print them out, and make a personalized vocabulary list of words you don&#8217;t know yet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julien Dor\u00e9 - Le lac (Clip officiel)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9UXSWGsjAUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>La Madone au Nord<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Madonna in the North<br \/>\n<strong>Et le lac se dessine<br \/>\n<\/strong>And the lake appears<br \/>\n<strong>Courageux et fort<br \/>\n<\/strong>Courageous and strong<br \/>\n<strong>O\u00f9 rien ne respire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Where nothing breathes<br \/>\n<strong>Corps contre corps<br \/>\n<\/strong>Body against body<br \/>\n<strong>Ciel contre cimes<br \/>\n<\/strong>Sky against the peaks<br \/>\n<strong>La for\u00eat se tord<br \/>\n<\/strong>The forest twists<br \/>\n<strong>L&#8217;horizon soupire<br \/>\n<\/strong>The horizon sighs<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>T&#8217;aimer sur les bords du lac<br \/>\n<\/strong>Loving you by the banks of the lake<br \/>\n<strong>Ton coeur sur mon corps qui respire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Your heart on my breathing body<br \/>\n<strong>Pourvu que les hommes nous regardent<br \/>\n<\/strong>So long as people are watching<br \/>\n<strong>Amoureux de l&#8217;ombre et du pire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lovers of the shadow and all that is bad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>T&#8217;aimer sur les bords du lac<br \/>\n<\/strong>Loving you by the banks of the lake<br \/>\n<strong>Ton coeur sur mon corps qui respire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Your heart on my breathing body<br \/>\n<strong>Pourvu que les hommes nous regardent<br \/>\n<\/strong>So long as people are watching<br \/>\n<strong>Amoureux de l&#8217;ombre et du pire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lovers of the shadow and all that is bad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Je reviendrai fort<br \/>\n<\/strong>I&#8217;ll come back strong<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Surprendre la cime<br \/>\n<\/strong>Discover the peak<br \/>\n<strong>La rivi\u00e8re et l&#8217;or<br \/>\n<\/strong>The river and gold<br \/>\n<strong>Me font prendre racine<br \/>\n<\/strong>Make me take root<br \/>\n<strong>J&#8217;ai tromp\u00e9 la mort<br \/>\n<\/strong>I cheated death<br \/>\n<strong>La pente est facile<br \/>\n<\/strong>The slope is easy<br \/>\n<strong>Sers-moi encore<br \/>\n<\/strong>Hold me again<br \/>\n<strong>Que mes anges vacillent<br \/>\n<\/strong>Let the angels tremble<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>T&#8217;aimer sur les bords du lac<br \/>\n<\/strong>Loving you by the banks of the lake<br \/>\n<strong>Ton coeur sur mon corps qui respire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Your heart on my breathing body<br \/>\n<strong>Pourvu que les hommes nous regardent<br \/>\n<\/strong>So long as people are watching<br \/>\n<strong>Amoureux de l&#8217;ombre et du pire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lovers of the shadow and all that is bad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Si demain tu regrettes le miroir \u00e9corch\u00e9<br \/>\n<\/strong>If tomorrow you regret the skinned mirror <strong><br \/>\nQue le lac te refl\u00e8te promets-moi d&#8217;oublier<br \/>\n<\/strong>Let the lake reflect you; promise me to forget<br \/>\n<strong>Si demain tu regrettes le miroir \u00e9corch\u00e9<br \/>\n<\/strong>If tomorrow you regret the skinned mirror<strong><br \/>\nQue le lac te refl\u00e8te promets-moi d&#8217;oublier<br \/>\n<\/strong>Let the lake reflect you; promise me to forget<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>T&#8217;aimer sur les bords du lac<br \/>\n<\/strong>Loving you by the banks of the lake<br \/>\n<strong>Ton coeur sur mon corps qui respire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Your heart on my breathing body<br \/>\n<strong>Pourvu que les hommes nous regardent<br \/>\n<\/strong>So long as people are watching<br \/>\n<strong>Amoureux de l&#8217;ombre et du pire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lovers of the shadow and all that is bad<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>T&#8217;aimer sur les bords du lac<br \/>\n<\/strong>Loving you by the banks of the lake<br \/>\n<strong>Ton coeur sur mon corps qui respire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Your heart on my breathing body<br \/>\n<strong>Pourvu que les hommes nous regardent<br \/>\n<\/strong>So long as people are watching<br \/>\n<strong>Amoureux de l&#8217;ombre et du pire<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lovers of the shadow and all that is bad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julien Dor\u00e9 est bien connu en France (Julien Dor\u00e9 is well known in France). After winning the 5th season of Nouvelle Star (the equivalent of American Idol) in 2007, the Al\u00e8s-born singer\/songwriter has released 3 chart-topping albums and over a dozen singles. 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