sonsenfrancais Groupie United Kingdom sonsenfrancais. Joined 5978 days ago 75 posts - 85 votes Speaks: FrenchC2
| Message 1 of 4 30 January 2010 at 4:26pm | IP Logged |
I try to avoid the temptation to bring to this forum French listening problems. However, when the frustration builds and I'm losing sleep... it so happens this is where all the experts hang out
Before Christmas I put up on sonsenfrancais.org a 'challenge' to Anglophone visitors. Three parody songs by Gérald Dahan. Brel, Aznavour, Gainsbourg - with lyrics about Sarkozy, naturally The page is at www.sonsenfrancais.org/challenge.html
I offered a transcripton of the first (I am a student, not an expert), and it was for the students who visit the site to provide the words of the other two.
I got a lot of responses, but everyone bombed out on the second. A very unusual problem - two lines which seem clear, but can't be right
They sound like
Il probec, il dissuaie, il ennuie
les bourgeois aller trop lourd
Unfortunately, neither probecer nor dissuaier exist in French
The second problem section follow the line 'Il voyage' before where he says it was 'parce qu'il a balladé tout nu/Sur les plages
I actually found another recording of Dahan's theatre show - same words, same problem
So there we go. To avoid downloading the whole video (worth it, it's very funny), have a look at www.sonsenfrancais.org/tmp where you'll find an mp3, Dahan-2.mp3 which is just this song
Thank you !
Edited by sonsenfrancais on 30 January 2010 at 4:28pm
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Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6329 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian
| Message 2 of 4 30 January 2010 at 5:39pm | IP Logged |
"Il promet, il déçoit, il ennuie
Les bourgeois, les prolos (prolétaires)"
Il voyage/Trainant un mannequin liftée (par les temps entretenus? Not sure.)
Il ne passe pas que l'été à se ballader tout nu/Sur les plages
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sonsenfrancais Groupie United Kingdom sonsenfrancais. Joined 5978 days ago 75 posts - 85 votes Speaks: FrenchC2
| Message 3 of 4 30 January 2010 at 5:54pm | IP Logged |
There you go.
The Canadians lead the way in matters French !
Thanks enormously
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schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5559 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 4 of 4 30 January 2010 at 6:46pm | IP Logged |
There's a song called "Ta Katie t'a quitté", which is fun to try to decipher (sorry, I
couldn't find any nice clear examples to link to)
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