{"id":31483,"date":"2019-07-23T05:30:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T03:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=31483"},"modified":"2019-07-22T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T22:01:49","slug":"french-culture-retro-pub-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-culture-retro-pub-3\/","title":{"rendered":"French Culture &#8211; Retro Pub 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, another commercial from the 80&#8217;s. I like commercials because they are short, often have lots of great vocabulary, and can often be like litte stories. This commercial from Volkswagen plays with our expectations with a series of\u00a0<strong>retournements<\/strong> (<em>reversals)<\/em> and a surprising ending.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pubs des ann\u00e9es 80\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a-ESICk9M2U?start=1730&#038;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<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>Fran\u00e7ais<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>English<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>Il a mis\u00e9 un million sur le noir \u2026 <\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>He bet a million on black \u2026<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>Le rouge est sorti.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>And red came up.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>Il a \u00e9pous\u00e9 une cr\u00e9ature de r\u00eave \u2026<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>He married a dream \u2026<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>Sa vie conjugale est un cauchemar.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>His married life is a nightmare.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>Il a achet\u00e9 un cheval de course \u2026<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>He bought a racehorse \u2026<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>Qui n\u2019a jamais gagn\u00e9.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>Who has never won.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>Mais \u2026 il a \u2026 une Golf.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>But \u2026 he has (owns) \u2026 a Golf.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>[Mod\u00e8le pr\u00e9sent\u00e9\u00a0: Golf GTI ann\u00e9e mod\u00e8le 88.]<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>[Model shown\u00a0: Golf GTI model year 1988.]<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"312\"><strong>On ne peut tout de m\u00eame pas se tromper tout le temps.<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"312\"><em>One can\u2019t after all always be wrong\/be wrong about everything.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"woo-sc-box  normal   \">For some great car and driving related vocabulary, see these previous posts:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/en-voiture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Useful vocabulary and important phrases from Elizabeth to help you get around.<\/a><br \/>\nA <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-vocabulary-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more recent yet related post<\/a> from me.<br \/>\nAnd finally some <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-culture-driving-in-france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">useful vocabulary and rules of the road for renting cars and driving<\/a> in France.<\/div>\n<p>And finally this week &#8230; something completely different!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/notre-dame-de-paris-avant-le-feu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Notre-Dame and the fire that destroyed the roof<\/a> (which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2019\/07\/16\/world\/europe\/notre-dame.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still under investigation<\/a> and now there are concerns about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2019\/07\/18\/world\/europe\/ap-eu-france-notre-dame.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">potential health implications of all the lead from the roof<\/a> that melted). Though <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-culture-currentish-events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as I shared a few weeks ago<\/a>, one firm is already looking to the future. But these two articles I came across recently give you the opportunity to drill in and really see what the fire did to this magnificent old building. Scroll down on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouest-france.fr\/faits-divers\/incendie\/incendie-de-notre-dame-de-paris\/video-incendie-a-notre-dame-de-paris-decouvrez-les-images-des-degats-avant-apres-6312065\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this page<\/a> to see a video from Ouest France or use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nouvelobs.com\/societe\/20190419.OBS3029\/avant-apres-notre-dame-sous-toutes-ses-coutures.html?fbclid=IwAR1PqrawPooqr4s3ohLyGmP1pDFjz9FRuOHvAJn1t3Qz_uCClMB-fk1nMwg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interactive sliders on the images from L&#8217;Obs<\/a> to compare the\u00a0<strong>avant et apr\u00e8s<\/strong> (<em>before and after)<\/em> for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"233\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/architecture-billboard-buildings-1827234-350x233.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/architecture-billboard-buildings-1827234-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/07\/architecture-billboard-buildings-1827234.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>This week, another commercial from the 80&#8217;s. I like commercials because they are short, often have lots of great vocabulary, and can often be like litte stories. This commercial from Volkswagen plays with our expectations with a series of\u00a0retournements (reversals) and a surprising ending. Fran\u00e7ais English Il a mis\u00e9 un million sur le noir \u2026&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/french-culture-retro-pub-3\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":31456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[2149,11656,316,357,432],"class_list":["post-31483","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-france","tag-french-blog","tag-french-culture","tag-french-language","tag-french-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31483","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\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31483"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31486,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31483\/revisions\/31486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}