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 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 4996 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 209 of 243 18 June 2013 at 2:55am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, isn't that great? - Or when you learn something, and keep noticing it elsewhere afterwards.
Ah - I didn't think of checking the gender! - I'd thought it was that "temperature" is typically used in a medical context (e.g. with a fever), or when actually measuring the temperature of something...? Edited by songlines on 18 June 2013 at 3:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5168 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 210 of 243 18 June 2013 at 3:03am | IP Logged | |||||
J'ai dit à moi-même should be: je me suis dit en dedans is not wrong per se, just not very natural sounding (also because we'd say "en d'dans" and it looks like he's pronouncing the extra e). He seems to mean "in the car" -- dans le char. "Le température" should be feminine -- yes, le temps or la météo is standard French, but we sometimes say la température for the weather (ie. On a d'la belle température c't'été). Lastly, it should be "reveniez" -- he missed the subjunctive, a very common mistake as you no doubt know... 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 4996 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 211 of 243 02 July 2013 at 6:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Thanks again, Arekkusu.
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| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 4996 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 212 of 243 02 July 2013 at 6:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Summary for the two months since the 6th of May:
Assimil: Started Using French ! 131 minutes (2 hrs, 11 mins) Podcasts (and Youtube), Video]: 97 minutes. (1 hr, 37 mins) From www.rtbf.be, and the Eddie Izzard piece which Travis H posted on his log. Podcasts, audio: 534 minutes (8 hours, 54 mins) RFI, and Sept Jours sur la Planète. Reading, Books: 2 books completed (plus others still in mid-read). 245 pages total. Goscinny. Les Vacances de Petit Nicolas Goscinny. Le Petit Nicolas s'amuse Tolkien. Le Hobbit Tuchman, Barbara. Un Lointain Miroir/ A Distant Mirror: the Calamitous 14th Century Vargas, Fred. Debout les Morts/ The Three Evangelists 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 4996 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 213 of 243 02 July 2013 at 7:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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Summary, continued...
Reading, BDs. 19 BDs completed (one still in mid-read). 1671 pages in total. Pages with minimal or no text were not included in the page count. In the list below I've also (mostly) used English conventions for capitalization of titles. Ab Irato, Tome 2. Descente aux Enfers. By Thierry Labrosse. Blake & Mortimer. By E.P. Jacobs. Tome 9: La Piège Diabolique Tome 10: L'Affaire du Collier Tome 11 & 12: Les Trois Formules du Professeur Sato. Tome 2 by Jacobs and Bob de Moor. Tome 13: L'Affaire Francis Blake. By Jean Van Hamme and Ted Benoit. Les Cités Obscures, Tome 1. Les Murailles de Samaris. by François Schuiten & Benoît Peeters. Les Chroniques Birmanes. By Guy Delisle. Le Chat du Rabbin. By Joann Sfar. Tome 1. La Bar-Mitsva Tome 2. Le Malka des Lions Tome 4. Le Paradis Terrestre "Paul" series, all by Michel Rabagliati. Paul au Parc Paul a un Travail d'Été Paul à la Campagne Paul en Appartement Persepolis. By Marjane Satrapi. Volumes 1, 2, 3. Une Vie Chinoise, By P. Ôtié & Li Kunwu. Tome 1. Le Temps du Père. Tome 2. Le Temps du Parti. Edited by songlines on 02 July 2013 at 7:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5319 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 214 of 243 04 July 2013 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Je suis à Montreal pour le week-end, et j'ai fait une carte de vos librairies avec beaucoup de BDs :
Librairies de Montréal Je vais chercher « Le Mystère de la grande pyramide » et « Paul au parc ». Merci pour le tuyau ! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 4996 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 215 of 243 05 July 2013 at 6:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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Nice map, Emk - and thanks for the mention! Also don't forget Microsnout's recommendation
(post 5) of Librairie Marché du Livre, and Lecavaleur's note on l'Allée des bouquinistes (post 16), both in this thread. - And have a splendid trip! Edited by songlines on 05 July 2013 at 1:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 4996 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 216 of 243 22 July 2013 at 1:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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Summary
Podcasts, video: 125 minutes Podcasts, audio: 258 minutes. Mostly RFI, Le français façile Books: 24 pages. Barbara Tuchman. Un Lointain Miroir/ A Distant Mirror. Fred Vargas. Debout les Morts/ The Three Evangelists BDs: 543 pages. Finished 8 BDs, 1 still on the go. Ab Irato tome 2: Descente aux Enfers, by Thierry Labrosse Blake & Mortimer tome 14: la Machination Voronov, by Yves Sente, André Juillard. La Campagne Presidentielle, by Mathieu Sapin. link Le Chat du Rabbin, tome 3: L'Exode, by Joann Sfar Paul à Quebec Paul dans le Métro, by Michel Rabagliati Quai d'Orsay: Chroniques Diplomatiques, tome 1 & 2 , by "Lanzac" & Christophe Blain. link Une Vie Chinoise, tome 3: le Temps de l'Argent, by Li Kunwu & P. Ôtié. I also had a French couple as Couchsurfing guests for three and a half days. They were perfectly fine as guests, but unfortunately not quite the conversational windfall I'd hoped for, as the husband preferred to speak in English (so he could get his English practice). His wife was more comfortable in French than English, so I had a bit more listening practice with her, though she did speak with a bit of her native (Russian) accent. We ended up with him speaking mostly English (and translating at times when his wife couldn't understand) and me speaking mostly French. But I'm continuing to find opportunities to speak it at work, as my colleagues at the circulation and reference desks refer Francophone patrons to me. Did a short session showing a patron how to search our online magazine and newpaper databases. The real challenge, and my longer-term goal, is to get my French up to a level where I can do reader's advisory en français - that is, give reading suggestions, including summaries of the theme/subjects, a bit about the writing style, and why I think it may appeal to them. I've started reading the comments fields in Amazon.fr and Amazon.ca, and will also be mining Sens Critique link (thanks to Emk for the recommendation), for appropriate vocab, phrasings, etc. Plus, of course, just out of interest in seeing other readers' responses to books which I myself have read. Edited by songlines on 22 July 2013 at 1:55am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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