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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 153 of 204 26 February 2013 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, Iversen was also commenting on the number of log updates there have been so far. -Looking forward to your gnocchi, Flarioca. -February is a short month, so there may well be others posting recipes in early March. Edited by songlines on 27 February 2013 at 6:27am 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 154 of 204 26 February 2013 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Question for Pax people: what activity should we try for March? Kanewai and I had our respective lists on
this thread, if you're looking for ideas. And there's also a link to Language Sponge's long list of challenges in my post there too. Here's another idea I had, prompted by a conversation on Tastyonion's log, in which he and emk touched on his (ie Tastyonion's) experiences with people from the francophone diaspora in Senegal, Morocco, & Quebec. (He even found someone in Moldava! -Though that was another L2 speaker who was planning to move to Quebec). Find/explore other places where you can find speakers or examples of, your target language: - Online: Explore the diaspora (if any) for your language. For example, as above, listen to radio stations or read a newspaper from francophone Africa rather than France. Or try an online source for Italian from Switzerland, rather than Italy. If you normally use Iberian Spanish, try a Latin American source instead. - Or in person: Now that spring's approaching in some parts of the world, take this time to have a target language scavenger hunt in your town! Perhaps find a café or restaurant where they speak your L2. Or visit a cultural centre or place of worship for target language speakers in your community. Or a bookstore or library where they may sell some books in your L2. For some languages, this may be difficult, but I hope that most of us will be able to find something from either an online or real-world source. - A lot of us are already doing that, in any case. ----- What do you think? Or are there any other ideas that people might like to try? -Or perhaps, Tastyonions(?) or someone else, would you like to organize a first Skype get-together as a March activity? (I can't do this yet; my computer's too ancient to Skype.) Edited: for typos. Edited by songlines on 26 February 2013 at 5:53pm 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 155 of 204 04 March 2013 at 10:01pm | IP Logged | ||
I'll continue with another breakfast beverage...
Lassi à la mangue. par Vikram Vij Version traduit par l'anglais. (La reçette originale au dessous.) Degré de difficulté: très facile. Nombre de personnnes: 2-4 Ingrédients: le yaourt ou la babeurre, 2 tasses la pulpe de mangue (Alphonse préféré; on peut utilisez la pulpe en boîte), 1.5 tasses le sucre, 2-4 cuillère à soupe (au goût) les ananas, 3 onces (ou plus, au goût) de l'eau, 2 tasses (ou moins, comme votre préférence) les glaçons*, 5-6 Mélangez tous les ingrédients dans un mélangeur. (Si votre mélangeur n'est pas très puissant, omettez les glaçons: Mélangez tout d'autre ingrédients et laissez au frigidaire.) -------- Sweet mango lassi. from Vij's: Elegant and inspired Indian cuisine Difficulty level: Very easy. Serves: 2-4 people. Ingredients: 2 cups yoghurt or buttermilk (I prefer the tang of buttermilk) 1.5 cups Alphonse mango pulp (canned mango pulp is okay) 4 tablespoons sugar (or to taste) 3 oz. fresh pineapple (or more, to taste) 2 cups water (or less, as preferred) 5 - 6 ice cubes. Blend all the ingredients in a blender. If your blender's not powerful enough, omit the ice-cubes. Blend all the other ingredients, and refrigerate the lassi till cool. Edited by songlines on 04 March 2013 at 10:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6166 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 156 of 204 07 March 2013 at 11:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Great recipe Songlines. Very impressed by your translations of recipes, they are very French like. That looks like a tasty Lassi, although I didn't see a reference to any spice which I sometimes can taste when drinking them.
I like your idea of finding information from a pays francophone. I have already become familiar with some Swiss podcasts. I would like to find some podcasts from Canada or perhaps from North African countries to report back to this post at the end of the month. Sorry I didn't contribute last month to the recipes. I will try to make up for it eventually. 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 157 of 204 09 March 2013 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for your comments on both the recipes and the news, Adrean. For Canadian news sources, you could try / start with: -Radio Canada : http://www.radio-canada.ca/audio-video/ - Radio Canada shortwave: http://www.rcinet.ca/francais/ -TFO: http://www.tfo.org/ For Switzerland, I've tried Télévision Suisse Romande: http://www.rts.ch/. Are there other Swiss stations/ sites you'd recommend? I haven't investigated sites/stations from Francophone Africa yet; If you (or anyone else) knows of any good ones, would you mind sharing them on this thread? If anyone's interested, I have also have a number of podcasts from France on my log; a number of which are gathered in post 22, though there are others scattered through the rest of the log. (I should try to amalgamate them in one big post.) Edited by songlines on 09 March 2013 at 4:56am 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 158 of 204 09 March 2013 at 4:40am | IP Logged | ||
As for the lassis: It seems, according to Wikipedia, that it's the "salt" lassis which are made with spices; the sweet ones without. I sometimes blend a small piece of fresh ginger with my sweet lassi, for extra flavour and "bite". I've seen other lassi recipes calling for (variously; not all at the same time, of course) ground cardamom, green cardamom pods, ground cumin, turmeric; and, for sweet lassis - rose water or mint. 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 159 of 204 12 March 2013 at 1:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Some news sources from the Francophone diaspora.
Found: a very useful page, hosted on the Stanford University Library site, with links to a large number of radio stations in sub-Saharan Africa. (Go librarians!) SULair:SULair I've started dipping into some of the links. A few notes/updates: - Cameroon Radio and TV. Note the .cm (not .com) suffix. It lists a bilingual mid-day broadcast. (I can't play it on my computer, but assume it works. - Will have to try from my work computer.) - Frequence Verte. Link non-functioning, but the Syfia site seems to have a number of useful links to other French / African broadcasters and news agencies. - Rádio Nacional de Angola. Malware warning! This would have been Portuguese, but now presumed to be speaking the language of internet viruses. - Rádio Nacional de São Tomé e Príncipe. Portuguese, but non-functioning link. - Radio for Peacebuilding. No longer seems to have Portuguese. (Interestingly, it has financial support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland.) If you don't mind reading about issues relating to the Catholic Church, Radioecclesia (on the list) does have Portuguese. - Radio Sans Frontières. Link seems to have been hijacked to a Japanese website. I did find another Radio Sans Frontières from Burundi: RSF ------ A few other useful sites, not on the Stanford list: Franco Diff. Clickable map (also avail in list form) of "affiliate" radio stations. Some of the links may have only a tenuous Francophone connection, if any at all, - but the list is nevertheless useful. Radios francophones, links from Lehman College, CUNY. Infosud.org, a Swiss-based, nonprofit press agency which tries (as their Who are we? page indicates) to foster access to non-Western perspectives on the news. ------ Drop a line in this thread if you have additional comments about any of the stations on the list, or find others (especially for other Romance languages) which may be worth sharing. Edited by songlines on 12 March 2013 at 6:07am 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 160 of 204 15 March 2013 at 11:05am | IP Logged | ||
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The Tadoku Reading Contest is now open! I've posted some links at
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