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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6617 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 385 of 656 23 June 2012 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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| microsnout TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Canada microsnout.wordpress Joined 5468 days ago 277 posts - 553 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 386 of 656 23 June 2012 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Update #14
68/100 Films Movies "La grande séduction" (2003) "Le bonheur de Pierre" (2009) "Le dîner de cons" (1998) TV Series "Apparences" (10 episodes of 45 min) "19-2", Season 1 (10 Episodes of 45 min) "30 Vies", Season 1-2 (120 episodes of 22 min) "Toute la vérité", Seasons 1-3 (50 episodes of 45 min) **** La grande séduction This is my second favourite French language film (so far) after "Le dîner de cons", the latter being a French film and this one a Québécois. This movie, which goes under the English title "Seducing Dr. Lewis" is remarkably similar in theme to the Michael J Fox film "Doc Hollywood". A small village in need of a doctor conspires to convince a doctor to stay in the town, both films featuring plastic surgeons. It is not a remake however - very different really. In this movie the entire town is in on the plot. The film was shot in the remote Quebec village of Harrington Harbour which is accessible only by boat as there are no roads. A friend of mine stopped there for a few days while returning from Newfoundland by sailboat and residents were disappointed that he had not seen the film but wanted to show him all the scenes featured in the movie anyway. Le bonheur de Pierre This is a joint France-Canada production about a university professor from Paris and his daughter who move to a small village in the Saguenay region of Quebec when he inherits an inn. In contrast to the above film which was based on a plot to convince someone to stay in the town, the plot in this film is based on a plot to make someone leave, specifically 'les maudits Français'. The efforts just don't work on the professor however because of his personal philosophy of happiness which makes him immune. It is hard to go wrong trying to make someone want to stay but in trying to make someone leave it is easy to make a film too negative and nasty for a light comedy and in my opinion this film crosses that line and for that reason I just don't like this film nearly as much as La grand séduction. On the positive side, language plays a big part in this movie unlike the other. The parisien French vs the québécois joual - the professors daughter holding her hand over the phone with an exasperated sigh saying "Finally someone who can speak French!!", a discussion of the conditional verb tense over a bowl of poutine and other funny interactions. Finally I found the québécois slang/joual a bit stronger in this film than the other which I think was intentional to emphasize the contrast with the parisiens and thus help make language differences a part of the film. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| toscane Newbie France Joined 4546 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: French* | Message 387 of 656 24 June 2012 at 1:32am | IP Logged | ||
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LANGUAGE: Modern Hebrew and English CHALLENGE: Hebrew: Super Duper Challenge English: Super Duper Challenge (only writing) CURRENT LEVEL: Both: around A2/B1 COMMENTS: Crazy task but I'm sure the challenge will boost my motivation and I really hope it will help me reach a near C1 level in both languages :) Edited by toscane on 24 June 2012 at 9:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 388 of 656 24 June 2012 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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First, thought I'd count the money spent on books so far:) Most of what I've read so far I already owned as of May 1st. Polish: 1. HP 3 - 35 złoty 2. a Warsaw guidebook for football fans - about 20 złoty 3. a book about football - 27 złoty +two football phrasebooks that don't really count total: 82 złoty, ie about 20 €. German: 1. Johanna Sinisalo - Troll - 14.5 € 2. Moomins - 22 € (only ordered these so far, don't have them yet. under 40 €) Also setting a goal now, to do 50% of my Polish challenge by Euro final :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6275 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 389 of 656 25 June 2012 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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8/100 films 1/100 books Películas 1. La Isla Interior (1 hour 34 minutes) 2. Girls (HBO series) (4 episodes) (2 hours) 3. Jane Eyre (120 minutes) 4. Football Euro 2012 Italy vs Ireland (1hr45min) 5. Football Euro 2012 Suecia vs Francia (1hr45min) 6. Football Euro 2012 La Republica Checa vs Portugal (1hr45min) 7. Football Euro 2012 Alemania vs Grecia (1hr45min) 8. Football Euro2012 Spain vs France (1hr45min) Japanese 1/50 films 0/50 books 1. The Sea is Watching (119 minutes) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6594 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 390 of 656 25 June 2012 at 1:56am | IP Logged | ||
I watched only one game in Spanish, Russia vs Greece....... :/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5331 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 391 of 656 25 June 2012 at 10:40am | IP Logged | ||
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RUSSIAN UPDATE
FILMS 1. Robin Hood (May 1st)(Russian, no subs) 2. The Jungle Book (May 1st)(Russian, no subs) 3. The Jungle Book 3 (May 5th)(Russian, no subs) 4. Love and other impossible pursuits (Russian, no subs)(May 10th) 5. Letters to Juliet (May 10th)(with Russian subtitles). 6. Water for Elephants (May 12th) (Russian, no subs) 7. The Lincoln Advocate (May 13th) Russian - no subs 8. When in Rome (May 17th) (Russian, no subs) 9. Keinohrhasen June 1st (no subs) 10. Dr. Zhivago - ep. 1-2 of the Russian series.(no subs) June 11th CONVERSATION 1. Conversation (May 1st) 2. Conversation (May 1st). 3. Conversation (May 24th)Week end plans 4. Conversation (May 24th)Plans birthday 5. Conversation (May 26th) Travel plans 6. Conversation (May 26th) Visit from Russia 7. Conversation (May 29th) The place I live 8. Conversation (May 29th) My hobbies 9. Conversation (May 29th) Me 10.Conversation (May 29th) My family 11.Conversation (May 29th) Don't remember, but I had a fantastic time. (A really good bottle of wine and two Russians involved) 12.Conversation (May 30th)Language studies 13.Conversation (May 30th) Spain READING 1. Appointment with death (AC) May 8th) (280 pages) NEWEST ITEM - FILMS 11 Twilight (English subs)(June 22th) 12 New Moon (no subs)(June 23th) 13 Eclipse (no subs)(June 24th) 14. Dr. Zhivago - ep. 3-4 of the Russian series. (June 25th) I know the Twilight series so well, that I can follow it well even if I do not understand everything which is said. The Dr. Zhivago series is a lot more difficult, as it is in original language, but I have the great advantage of having a Russian friend by my side who translates some of it for me, so I can more or less follow. In any event I am still at the level where I am happy every time I understand half a sentence, and I just take it as part of life that I will not understand more than perhaps 10%. GERMAN UPDATE FILMS (June 15-16) 1. Hawaii 5-0 ep. 1-2 2. Hawaii 5-0 ep. 3-4 3. Hawaii 5.0 ep. 5-6 4. Hawaii 5-0 ep. 7-8 5. Hawaii 5-0 ep. 9-10 NEW ITEM 6. Hawaii 5-0 ep. 11-12 (June 18th) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4886 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 392 of 656 25 June 2012 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had another week of mixed results for movies. From best to worst:
10. Le dîner de cons (Francis Veber, 1998) Recommended by Microsnout, and now seconded by me. The movie was great fun, and Jacques Villeret (the 'con') has brilliant comic timing. I'll be returning to this movie again! 11. La tête en friche (My Afternoons with Margeuritte; Jean Becker, 2010). Gérard Depardieu is a semi-literate "village fool" who spends his afternoons in the park with the 95-year old Gisèle Casadesus, who teaches him to open his heart by reading to him ... La Peste, by Camus. That was one wtf? moment. The other was this: Gérard's character is in his 60's, grossly overweight, underemployed, socially inept, emotionally stunted, uncommunicative - picture a 300 pound cross between Rain Man and Forest Gump - and yet has a smoking hot 20-something girlfriend who dotes on him. I couldn't suspend enough disbelief to watch their bedroom scenes without groaning. The rapport between Gérard and Gisèle was sweet, but overall the movie didn't work for me. Others in the audience liked it. x. La fille du RER (The Girl on a Train; André Téchiné, 2009). I forgot that I had tried to watch this once before. It is aggressively boring - for most of the movie we watch the star rollerblade around Paris while she listens to music on her headphones. Not worth renting. x. Le carrosse d'or (The Golden Coach; Jean Renoir, 1952). The Criterion edition only has the English version of the movie, because Renoir preferred it to the French version. I couldn't tell if it was poorly dubbed or poorly acted. I might have finished it if it were at least in French. I also finished two books this week: Les aventures de Tintin, volume 5 : Le lotus bleu (Hergé, 1936) and Madame Bovary. The last took me seven weeks; this feels like a major accomplishment. Tintin is a solid read; I really enjoyed the adventure, and there is enough text to justify logging it as 20 pages. I used a a French-English paragraph-by-paragraph translation on Kindle for Madame Bovary. The translation was awkward; the translator didn't interpret the text so much as translate it phrase by phrase. This was a good thing for helping me understand the French text. I don't think I would've made it through the book without it. The novel itself is as brilliant as the critics say (see A.S. Byatt's 2002 essay "Scenes from a provincial life"). The first third as a decent pastoral novel, but it wasn't until the second part that I started to grasp the scope and scale of Flaubert's "book about nothing." I'm glad I struggled through it; and it's inspired me to keep working on French literature rather than to try popular books in translation. Current count: 475 pages 1. Vingt mille lieues sous les mers - première partie. Jules Verne, 1870. (310 p.) (Last 50 pages) 2. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, 1856. 384 pages 3. Rohan au Louvre de Hirohiko Araki (2010) (manga; 20 pages) 4. Les aventures de Tintin, volume 5 : Le lotus bleu de Hergé (1936) (manga; 20 pages) I'm now reading: 5. Astérix le Gaulois de Rene Goscinny (1961) 6. Le grand Meaulnes, Alain-Fournier (1913) (250 pages?) If anyone wants to join me with Le grand Meaulnes, I uploaded the parallel text version to my Google Drive account. If I did it right you should be able to download it with that link, without signing in. There are free e-book versions too; I'll be reading it on Kindle, and using the parallel text as a back-up when needed. Here's what John Fowles wrote about the novel: "(It)belongs to, and is the finest example of, a category in fiction that has no name but exists. Unfortunately, the most accurate description would be the novel of adolescence--I say 'unfortunately' because in our time the adolescent has come to be regarded as either a deteriorated child or an insufficient adult, and to speak of a serious novel of adolescence seems almost a contradiction in terms. That, of course, is precisely what Alain-Fournier wrote--and not only a serious novel, but a very great one. It has haunted the European mind since it first appeared in 1913. It is the book one never quite forgets, a book like a secret garden, the kind of novel you recommend as a disguised test: 'If you don't like this, there must be something wrong with you.' Anyone tempted? Edited by kanewai on 25 June 2012 at 11:29pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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