Samedi après-midi

[jawnbc]

Et déja:

-je me suis lavé;
-j'ai achété quelque chose;
-j'ai fait la salade de fruit; et
-j'ai lavé le plancher dans la cuisine.

Aussi j'écoute le nouveau CD de Kate Bush. Ses disques sont toujours uniques: si vous cherchez quelqu'un comme Enya (même son, CD après CD, mais aussi beau), tant pis. Kate est artiste. Est-ce que je l'aime? Sais pas. Mais «it doesn't at all suck».

;)

Comments

[jeneration.livejournal.com]

As I have decided to attempt to learn a few words of Francais, razorsharpblade has been sitting here splitting his sides as I painfully attempt to pronounce my way through your post and have a guess as to the contents.

Unfortunately I'm not yet up to creating a response in French. Maybe next time...

[jawnbc]

keep at it. I didn't really speak French until I was nearly 37 (I'm nearly 42 now). There's an awesome workbook called "French the Easy Way" by Christopher Kendris. It allows you to build a quick, functional knowledge of the language.

The other thing I recommend, though you may lose your tea over this one, is Céline Dion's French musique. Two in particular provide both excellent pop/rock/blues/torch while covering the most important functioning verbs/tenses en français.

The two discs are:

"Dion Chante Plamondon" (also known as "Des mots qui sonnent" in some jurisdictions) and "D'eux" (also known as "The French Album" in some jurisdictions).

Even if you loathe her in English, both are very much worse a listen.

[jeneration.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much fo the tips! I'm currently using an aged copy of Ensemble (a textbook designed to go with a BBC TV program from the early 80's) which was razorsharpblade's textbook in high school. Fortunately, razorsharpblade was a languages scholar at school and still remembers most of his french.

I will look for the workbook and see if I can track down the Celine Dion (although I'm not sure my small town music store actually stocks ANY Celine Dion at this time).

[paulintoronto.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to add that "Incognito" is excellent as well. I believe that was Celine's last album (It was a record, not a CD when I bought it) before she made her English debut.

[devcubber.livejournal.com]

j'aime beaucoup Kate Bush, en tous. Mais Céline Dion comme un professeur de la langue français??!!! Hmmmmm.......je le 'scruterais', mais, pour moi, je suis certaine «it willl suck» avec la grande force.

s'il vous plait, ne jettez pas les tomates å moi!

[jawnbc]

Je j-j-j-jete mes tomates wo wo!

(une blague: allez chercher "je danse dans ma tete" sur Limewire)

;)

Et Céline a du bon diction, assez bon avec ton accent québécois...