Tag: french
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 17
Finally, Chapter 17 of the Tri-lingual Hobbit Re-read! Featuring the Battle of Five Armies, and more pissed-off dwarves than you can shake a sword at.
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All-French ebook roundup post
In which Élisabeth Vonarburg joins the list of Quebecoise SF/F writers whose books I’m acquiring for eventual slow reading!
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Are musicians better language learners?
In which I am moved to geek out about how learning a language feels a LOT like learning music, and when you’re doing them together, it’s one great big exercise in pattern recognition!
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And now, what happens when a Quebecois trad fangirl is on pain meds
Strange things happen in my brain when I have to deal with several days’ worth of Vicodin. Such as bitching about it in French, set to music! Behold, une petite chanson qui s’appelle “Ma bouche est malheureuse”!
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Multi-lingual OH hey I got ebook credit! book roundup
My latest roundup of books acquired, thanks to an influx of surprise credit from a recent ebook settlement. Special honorable mention goes to “Ah shit, j’ai pogné le cancer” by Maude Schiltz, my first non-fiction book I’m attempting to read in Quebecois French!
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More on reading La cite maudite by Elodie Tirel
Reading an original work in French is surprisingly fun even if I can’t understand half the words!
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Reading Luna: La Cite Maudite by Elodie Tirel
In which I begin reading a novel in original French for the first time, and oh hey, I can actually pick up on the action. Fantastique!
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 16
Chapter 16 of The Hobbit, in which Mr. Baggins makes off with the Arkenstone, and startles assorted elven sentries as well as Bard and the Elvenking himself.
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Une histoire de canards
Et maintenant, une petite histoire, pour pratiquer mon français–une histoire de canards!
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Tri-lingual Hobbit re-read: Chapter 15
Chapter 15 of the Trilingual Hobbit Reread gives us the Lake-town men and Elves showing up to demand some of Thorin’s treasure, and Thorin not having ANY of this.