Carmody's Log for French

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Re: Carmody's Log for French

Postby Carmody » Wed Oct 16, 2019 12:47 am

Something I found of interest on Jodie Foster:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUCOAIWpnNo
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Re: Carmody's Log for French

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:06 am

Carmody wrote:Something I found of interest on Jodie Foster:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUCOAIWpnNo

Foster plays the widow of a French deserter in the French WW1 movie Un long dimanche de fiançailles (A Very Long Engagement) . The role is not big, but she speaks her own lines in French.
The movie is good, not top notch, say 7/10. I used it for making Anki cards with subs2strs. See rdearman's posts starting here for that process.

The only flaw with the cards for this particular movie is that the audio is not as crisp as I would like (and need).
The movie is based on a novel of the same name by Sebastien Japrisot, which I would rate 9/10.
If memory serves, Foster went to a French lycée in that well known French city down by the sea, Los Angeles.
Incidentally, I would not have expected the name Foster to give a French speaker a hard time. :?
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Re: Carmody's Log for French

Postby Carmody » Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:17 am

Many thanks for the resources; most appreciated.
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Re: Carmody's Log for French

Postby Carmody » Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:46 am

A nice resource for those who would like a bit of oral input and have 26 mins to spare..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg5dn6Wwyhg
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Re: Carmody's Log for French

Postby Carmody » Tue Nov 26, 2019 1:40 am

I figure since it is my log I can share some fun stuff:



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Re: Carmody's Log for French

Postby Lawyer&Mom » Fri Nov 29, 2019 11:41 pm

I loved them all!!! (But the snow! I cackled!)
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Re: Carmody's Log for French

Postby Carmody » Sat Nov 30, 2019 4:34 pm

Reources for listening practice come in all shapes and sizes, but this channel-Passe-moi les jumelles- with for example this film is one of my favorite. I doubt anyone will watch it since it is almost 30 mins. long but for me the channel and the film are special.

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Re: Carmody's Log for French

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sun Dec 01, 2019 12:58 am

Odd to see unpolled milk cows and odd to see cows being milked in the field. Do they do that in the winter, too, in the Val de Bagne? Do the cows never thwack the milkman in the head with their tails? At about 14:28 they throw a white powdery substance out for the cows. Is that salt? I'm used to salt licks in rectilinear cubes, somewhat the size of a breadbox. "Il aime ce qu'il fait," says the lady, and he, "J'ai besoin de cette solitude." Entendu.

As for the spoken French, I understood less than half. :(
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Re: Carmody's Log for French

Postby Carmody » Sun Dec 01, 2019 2:07 am

MorkTheFiddle » Sat Nov 30, 2019 1:58 pm
Odd to see unpolled milk cows and odd to see cows being milked in the field. Do they do that in the winter, too, in the Val de Bagne? Do the cows never thwack the milkman in the head with their tails? At about 14:28 they throw a white powdery substance out for the cows. Is that salt? I'm used to salt licks in rectilinear cubes, somewhat the size of a breadbox. "Il aime ce qu'il fait," says the lady, and he, "J'ai besoin de cette solitude." Entendu.

As for the spoken French, I understood less than half.


1-Yes, I am guess it is salt also. On our farm we used to have blocks of salt the way you described.Yes
2-Yes, when I milked our cows, they were not nearly so cooperative as in the film. And yes, I would get thwacked on occasion.
3-And yes,I probably don't understand anymore than you do. However I do keep going over the episode many times so as to understand and attune my ear as best I can. In fact, the whole channel - Passe-moi les jumelles-has a photographically poetic aesthetic that for me is conducive to repetition. I never get it all, but with each time, more is better.

All of the episodes are in a sense about slow life styles as opposed to fast. Since I am a slow person, I find the pacing conducive to my learning style.
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