I was "flipping" through my electronic German flashcards this morning, with Tanya's blog birthday suggestion hard at work in the depths of my mind. And now I have an idea. In the coming year, why not try to do some of our blogging en français? Most of us have studied French at some time or another, or at least wanted to. Why not take the next step to actual use?
I'm not suggesting entire posts in French. That seems like a lot to bite off all at once. But maybe un petit peu here and a little bit there? We can gradually incorporate words and phrases into the blog's vocabulary, and then after a while we can all say j'ai déjà vu ça and know what it means. What do you think? On est d'accord? Anyway, it's just an idea.
Oh, and the title of this post is the answer to the question, "What do the French call Easter?"
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Bonne idée
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Excellente idée. Merveilleuse. Roy est très intelligent!
Actually, the French for Bunny Day is "Paques" and they don't know that there's supposed to be a bunny on Easter because they think it's a church bell that brings the chocolate. Stupide. Les cloches ne marchent pas ... On n'a jamais dit que les français comprenaient tout!
This also works as a way to tell secrets that you don't want Mom to know!
That's what telephone, e-mail, and instant messaging are for!
But seriously. I wasn't expecting a lot of resistance from Tanya on this one. Does anyone else want to chime in and second the idea? Or is this one going to die?
Speaking only from my personal experience, learning a new language requires a lot of time, effort, and dedication. But it can definitely benefit from a variety of resources. And learning all by yourself lacks one of the most important motivating factors—communication. I just thought we could make Nothing But Tromble one more resource. It might motivate us to make use of those other resources we already have.
Yeah ... I was tempted to suggest translations added, but maybe that takes some of the fun (or learning) out of the equation?
I don't know. On the one hand, it's not very useful if we can't understand each other. But on the other, if a translation is always there, it's easy to ignore the French, maybe.
I'll add some links to the sidebar to help out. Stay tuned. And if you don't understand something, you can always ask. D'accord?
I think it's an Easter...... I mean une bonne idée. I'll have to figure out how to make all the French alphabet characters on the keyboard.
GT
It's easy on the Mac with the Alt/Option key. Option-e creates l'accent aigu, Option-` creates l'accent grave, Option-i creates l'accent circonflexe, Option-c creates c cédille, and Option-u creates le tréma.
I'm all for it, although heavy tutoring by the people who have actually studied French will be needed! But I'm already très heureux avoir appris qu'l'accent aigu est un Alt/Option key.
(And, uh, you can cheat with www.freetranslation.com...)
Trombles don't cheat! Do we? Maybe it's a California thing. : - )
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