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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5205 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 129 of 204 04 February 2013 at 11:02am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'd be interested in the group Skype thing, although good luck finding a time when I'm free and available in the next few weeks!
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 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5207 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 130 of 204 04 February 2013 at 5:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm enjoying this little group activity, especially because we're focussing on the same thing at the same time.
Whether or not there's a long list LanguageSponge-type of yearlong challenges for Pax, I'd really like to continue having something that we're all doing together each month. We started the songs a little later in January, so if there's anyone else who would like to add theirs in the coming week or so, feel free to do so. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5207 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 131 of 204 04 February 2013 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
Kanewai suggested and I seconded "Cooking", and if no one has any objections, I'd love to go with that. Here are some ideas re. Food/Cooking. Feel free to add suggestions/changes/additions... The activity should have something to do with food/cooking, and your target language (TL), and may be any (or all) of the following: - Choose and post (or post a link to) a recipe. Translate it from your TL to your L1 or English; or from your L1 to your TL. (- If neither your L1 nor your TL are English, then you could additionally do a second translation to English, or perhaps another Pax member could do the translation to English?) - Cook a dish. If the recipe is in your L1, then translate it to your TL. Report on the success (or otherwise?) of the dish. - Photos would be fun too! - Choose and share a piece of writing about food. It be can a passage from a novel, a poem, a chef's memoir, etc. This can be a description (in English) of the work, or - if you'd like a more advanced activity - a translation into English of a selection of the work. - Do a book review (cookbook, memoir, chef's biography). - Choose and share a film, or scene from a film, about food. - Describe a memorable meal, especially one from your target language's culture. ------------ How does the above sound? I've broadened the range to include PAXonians who might not enjoy cooking. (I do, but know that for some people it falls into the "necessary chore" rather than "pleasurable activity" category.) It should also allow for people with different levels of proficiency in their TL. I'll try to cobble together a list of food-related films later, or if anyone else would like to get a start on that, that'd be great! Edited by songlines on 04 February 2013 at 6:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5207 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 132 of 204 04 February 2013 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Also, for people looking for French-language recipes, try
http://chocolateandzucchini.com/, which has bilingual (French and English) recipes. Les Touilleurs. Kitchen/tableware store in Montreal, with recipes in French (only). Does anyone know of any good French-language food blogs? Something with all of: good writing, dependable recipes, and a personal touch would be ideal, the French equivalent (if any) of: Orangette Smitten Kitchen The Wednesday Chef About French food, but in English: Colloquial Cooking. Many recipes from Alsace, and also French pastry. David Lebovitz. Also more generally, about life in France. Dorie Greenspan French Fridays with Dorie Online group which tries recipes from Greenspan's book "Around My French Table". The recipes themselves aren't posted online. (PM me if you'd like me to send you a specific recipe.) Patricia Wells, glossary. No recipes on this site either, but has a very useful glossary of food /cooking terms. Edited: to add more links. Edited by songlines on 04 February 2013 at 11:51pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 133 of 204 04 February 2013 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There are a lot of youtube French cooking channels. I haven't explored too many yet; I
usually get too hungry after the first video and have to stop. La Cuisine de Monica should have you drooling ... 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5207 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 134 of 204 04 February 2013 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've posted another song on my log: post 165, about a Curt
Smith cover of "On ira tous au paradis". 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 135 of 204 05 February 2013 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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How about we take all Songines suggestions on post 131, but narrow the parameters - and
just have the Feb food challenge be about breakfast (or lunch, dessert, snacks, cocktails, & al.) - that way we'll have room to do more food challenges if this works (and I think it will!). - I am tempted to try a PAX breakfast with all the recipes that are posted. I'm sure my friends would like the idea. Edited by kanewai on 05 February 2013 at 7:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5207 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 136 of 204 06 February 2013 at 10:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks Kanewai, - Cool idea. I'd be delighted to focus on the "breakfast" part for the recipes and cooking!
And, for the other activities, I may go more generally with "food", given the possible dearth of breakfast scenes in films, novels, memoirs, etc. Looking forward to doing a (virtual) brunch with you all...! (And lunch, drinks, and dinner later in the year..?) To get people in mood for thinking about food/breakfast, here's a quote from a source many of you know well:
From lesson 90 of - you guessed it - Assimil, New French With Ease. I look forward, with suspense, to seeing the results of our little February activity. (Let there be no kitchen catastrophes...! Though they do often make for better stories, especially when recounted well after the event.) Edited by songlines on 06 February 2013 at 11:01am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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