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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5755 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 89 of 119 26 November 2012 at 6:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Not much French lately - I was tied up researching a potential book project, concerning
the essential quotations of mimes through the ages. Ran into exactly the sort of dead-end I should easily have forseen right from the beginning, so I am back to French study. I did manage to get some miscellaneous study in, and a couple of movies including finally Bon Cop, Bad Cop. I am not getting enough immediate benefit from radio and films, which are beyond the level of comprehensible input for me, so I am going back to the story about the boa constrictor drawing pilot and the real little guy he meets in the desert, something previously started but never much completed. DCCA: 956:24 Days remaining: 395 Daily average needed henceforth, as if: about 2h, 25m 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5008 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 90 of 119 26 November 2012 at 8:47am | IP Logged | ||
Spanky, I too could never get past the first few half-dozen pages of that story either, until someone else here at Htlal helpfully mentioned this site: http://english.franklang.ru/. (Click on "French" at the left.) You may already know the site; but if not, try it out. There are interlinear translations, followed by just the French text, as well as a link to the audiobook (which version I haven't listened to) in mp3 format. You may also enjoy Le petit Nicolas, (and in audiobook ). It's quite delightful and will, I think, particularly appeal to your sense of humour. - Très drôle. One bonus: the story's episodic in nature, so each six-page (or so) chapter can be read independently of the others; you don't have to feel that you have to plough through the whole book. Looking at Le Petit Nicolas, I notice that my copy has many, many words marked and underlined in the first chapter (Un souvenir...). If the vocab is similarly challenging for you, some of the later chapters may be better to begin with. For example, with "Le chouette bouquet" on page 67, about Nicolas trying to give his mother flowers for her birthday, you can pretty well get the general gist of the story from just the five little illustrations. And there's also _of_little_nicholas"> an English translation, by the esteemed Anthea Bell. Bon lire! Edits: for typos. Edited by songlines on 12 December 2012 at 4:57am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5755 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 91 of 119 26 November 2012 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Merci songlines! I had seen the link to the Ilya Frank site recently in your
log, and that is what prompted me to get back to Le petit prince. I am far too lazy to download unzipping software on my current computer, so I have not downloaded either the text or audio files, but am working directly from the individual chapters from that site, and also have an alternate English translation available if needed. I am working with audio I obtained previously from logoslibrary that has pretty clear enunciation, despite the background music that will eventually drive me completely mad. I am especially grateful for the Le petit Nicholas recommendation - I believe my mom read the English version to us as kids and if it is the same, I recall it as being excellent. I had forgotten all about this, and am looking forward to going back to checking it out now en français. Edited by Spanky on 26 November 2012 at 5:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5755 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 92 of 119 02 December 2012 at 10:20am | IP Logged | ||
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CETTE SEMAINE (T-55), 25 novembre - 1 décembre
9.5 hours this week divided between - FSI French Basic - BBC, Ma France - RFI - L'affaire du confret; Journal en français facile - French.about.com - various - Le petit prince - miscellaneous FSI French Basic Unit 1, tapes 1.3 to 1.6 FSI Basic BBC - Ma France Units 2 (En route) and 3 (Les Langues) including all vocab, grammar and activities link RFI.fr - L'affaire du confret, units 11, 12 link to L'affaire du confret - Journal en français facile - close study, vocab lookup and repeated listenings of one newscast link to RFI - JFF French.about.com - pronunciation of ail, aille - pronunciation of French double “ll” - faillir – to almost do something (which coincidentally is the moto of my life), generally used in the past tense: Il a failli dire “non” avant d’y réfléchir. J’ai failli à ma mission. (keep in mind the proper pronunciation of the “ll”) - Mot du jour: jouir to enjoy, delight in. La jouissance – enjoyment. Il faut jouir de la vie – one must enjoy life. Careful about using it intransitively…. - Mot du jour: sidérer - to stupefy or shock. L’annoncement m’a sidéré. Les étudiants étaient tous sidéré par les résultats. - Le mot du jour - le genre - type, kind, sort, appearance, race, gender - grâce à... - à cause de Le petit prince - option=com_content&view=article&id=67:french-with-the-little -prince&catid=6:2012-01- 31- 19-04-23&Itemid=10">Le petit prince - Ilya Frank website for la texte, et document_id=7126&code_language=FR">Le petit prince (audio) - logoslibrary.eu for audio. - listened to the audio to the first four chapters several times - the background music is proving hypnotic and easy to fall asleep to, as some fellow bus passengers observed earlier this week. Studied the preface et chapître 1 and mined for a bunch of material for ANKI. My current favourite paragraph: ” Quand j'en rencontrais une qui me paraissait un peu lucide, je faisait l'expérience sur elle de mon dessin numéro 1 que j'ai toujours conservé. Je voulais savoir si elle était vraiment compréhensive. Mais toujours elle me répondait: "C'est un chapeau." Alors je ne lui parlais ni de serpents boas, ni de forêts vierges, ni d'étoiles. Je me mettais à sa portée. Je lui parlais de bridge, de golf, de politique et de cravates. Et la grande personne était bien contente de connaître un homme aussi raisonnable. Miscellaneous - ANKI, after neglecting it for several weeks and letting cards pile up - wordreference.com - many random, productive meanderings DCCA: 946:59 Edited by Spanky on 02 December 2012 at 10:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5755 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 93 of 119 09 December 2012 at 5:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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CETTE SEMAINE (T-54) 2 décembre - 8 décembre
10 hours this week, as follows; FSI Basic – Unit 2, tapes 2.1, 2.2 Ma France – Unit 4 (“Shopping”) and Unit 5 (“Work”) - all three videos per unit plus related activities Le petit prince – chapître 2 - audio and text RFI - L’affaire du confret, units 13, 14 French in action - now available again on the Annenberg site. Quite some time ago had started on this, but am re-starting from the beginning Went through Intro and leçons 2, 3, French in Action french.about.com - various, as follows in next post…. Miscellaneous - radio - ANKI - Global Access, “Mastering French” (Disc 1 of a 4 CD audio-based English/French phrases collection and idiom notes, organized thematically, good for the bus) DCCA: 936:53 Edited by Spanky on 09 December 2012 at 6:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5755 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 94 of 119 09 December 2012 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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french.about.com articles this week:
Past Infinitive – Infinitif passé Je veux avoir terminé avant midi. Il regrette d'être parti. Conjugation of infinitif passé Test on past infinitive Subjunctive – regular conjugation Subjunctive - irregular verb conjugation Short test re: regular subjunctive conjugation Intro to subjunctive Subjonctif - expressions of will, orders, advice, desires, etc Subjonctif - emotions and feelings Subjonctif - opinions, possibilities, doubt Subjonctif - affirmative v. negative statements Subjunctive with conjunctions, what’s my function? Subjonctif avec negative and indefinite pronouns Subjunctive with superlatives Edited by Spanky on 09 December 2012 at 6:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5755 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 95 of 119 16 December 2012 at 7:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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CETTE SEMAINE (T-53) 9 décembre - 15 décembre
5 hours, 40 minutes this week, as follows; FSI Basic – Unit 2, tape 2.3 Ma France – nothing. France was not my France this past week. Le petit prince – chapître 3 - audio and text RFI - L’affaire du confret, unit 15 French in action - leçon 4 French About Com Mot du jour: le boulot plus reviewing previous verb units Miscellaneous ANKI Global Access, “Mastering French” (Disc 2) French toast (recorded time spent preparing and eating, but not time spent regretting) DCCA: 931:12 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5008 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 96 of 119 17 December 2012 at 1:11am | IP Logged | ||
!! - Did you think you could sneak that in there without anyone noticing, Spanky? Well, perhaps you studied the toast very carefully indeed before consumption? As for me - At this time of year, where food is concerned, I'm adopting this song title as my motto. Edited by songlines on 17 December 2012 at 1:16am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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