Le groupe français 2016 - 2023 Les Voyageurs

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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Fri Aug 16, 2019 12:10 am

Something pragmatic: some help if you get sick in France.
What to do if you get sick in France.
Medical Questions and Questionaire
Provided by Camille Chevalier-Karfis of FrenchToday, a commercial business (which I have no affiliation with). She publishes a weekly newsletter, and occasionally I find it useful.
The first reference will lead you to a video by Camille. She speaks slowly and enunciates clearly and besides gives running transscript in English. So not hard to understand.
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Postby Carmody » Fri Aug 16, 2019 2:54 am

I have been a long time follower of Camille and find her very helpful.
She continually tries to help people move away from "text book French."
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Fri Aug 16, 2019 10:35 pm

Yes. She does seem more aware than many teachers that the spoken language is so different from the school language. I nowadays read in full only every 4th or 5th newsletter, but they have much of value so I prize them.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Klara » Sat Aug 17, 2019 3:33 pm

My first year of French is over, now I am in my second year. :o I have already completed the book/exercises of „À Plus Charnières B1“. That went faster than planned, it was quite interesting, though not much of a challenge.

There are still two and a half months to go before the DELF exam, so I decided to improve my oral and written skills. After a long day of reading uncountable teacher/tutor profiles on various sites, I found a suitable online teacher on verbling, who speaks neither English nor German. I booked a free trial lesson for the following day and after 30 minutes I was convinced that we can work together.

We use Édito B1 as our working basis. I prepare the lessons on my own and during the online sessions we discuss the texts I have written and do the oral tasks together – now I finally can practice the darn role plays :roll: and he is not making it easy for me. This week we will have finished the first unité and I have to admit, the lessons in Édito B1 are dense but I do enjoy it. There are a lot of interesting things to learn.
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Postby DaveAgain » Tue Aug 20, 2019 7:21 am

se manger le sang > to be very worried / eat yourself up with worry

https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/manger_les_sangs
Mais pour que vous ne vous manger pas le sang, je pousserai tout grand l'auvent de la fenêtre contre le mur: vous pourrez le voir par derrière, en vous penchant sur la haie.

quote taken from Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Klara » Wed Sep 11, 2019 9:35 am

C'est la rentrée littéraire en France ! De ce fait, j'ai acheté mon premier roman français.

After I had watched the video "Le roman, une passion française" on TV5 Monde, I thought why not start with a French novel right now?

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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby Speakeasy » Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:24 am

Klara wrote:C'est la rentrée littéraire en France ! ...
Just a bit of clarification for those students of French who might not be familiar with the term "la rentrée": this refers to the "start of the new school year" which, as we all know, is a period filled with a great deal of emotion and activity, not to mention substantial expenditures by students, parents, and many others.

It has become something of a tradition, at least in France and Québec, for commercial and other establishments to announce their own "rentrées" to capitalize on the wide-spread excitement and the generalized tendency to disburse funds without much caution. Some sectors of the economy time the release of new products/services with this period (such as the publishing industry, but they're far from alone).

Accordingly, the "rentrée littéraire" has more to do with generating sales revenues than it does with French literature. By the way, I see no absolutely harm in this use of the term in this manner, particularly as it is established practice. Nonetheless, seeing it here in the language forum, I thought that some members might appreciate a bit of clarification. Aux études! ;)

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Erreurs de frappe, comme toujours!
Puis, encore d'autres!
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Postby Klara » Wed Sep 11, 2019 12:56 pm

Thanks for the clarification, Speakeasy! And it is of course a marketing thing ;) , also according to the text:

Pour certaines maisons d'édition, environ 50% du chiffre d'affaires peut être réalisé dès l'automne. Cette rentrée littéraire est une tradition bien française. Les prix qui l'accompagnent aussi.

In Germany, we have the yearly book faires in Frankfurt and Leipzig. Those two events are like the rentrée littéraire in France. By the way, the word rentrée could be translated into German as Saisonbeginn, Start der Saison.
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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby joecleland » Wed Sep 11, 2019 7:55 pm

Sarafina wrote:I think I've already posted links for some of the shows listed before. But this is just a bunch of links to cartoons that are available for free on YouTube and are in French.

Arthur (12 episodes and French subtitles are available)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byDzuHo ... JDB4G94aSj
Mes parrains sont magiques (13 episodes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20E_1An ... vsG2sxLdmL
Magic La Famille (21 episodes),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pciWnFg ... _sBC1n-7q7
Le Monde selon Kevin (24 episodes but half of it is blocked in my location),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R94vFu ... sk&index=5
TIMOTHÉE VA À L'ÉCOLE (25 episodes and French subtitles are available),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJJEV- ... Yf4WrWoJ80
D'Artagnan et les Trois Mousquetaires (26 episodes),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p0t3g9 ... 968861B864
Bouba le petit oursan (26 episodes),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLRUDwH ... czBD6lP5ha
Ed Edd Eddy (29 episodes),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh0SsRz ... FseqSZZHrV
Tib et Tatoum (29 episodes and French subtitles are available),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o_Cojz ... AxTQ-QIXO9
Les jumelles de St-Clare (33)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8diJ06 ... BSs9KiE5tS
Petite Bonne Femme (40),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apgYwtP ... qDMsUDSDks
Tico et Ses Amis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVzC0_U ... 9dsKDcdk8a
Il était une fois (41),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0pUKsM ... 0879116BAB
Sindbad (42)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPqyT2s ... GCTIZyvbOI
Le Petit Lord (43)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCgZcc1 ... QM4-aBKd8K
Princesse Sarah (47 episodes),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBRUsyI ... hN3w5nxXf4
Raconte-moi une histoire (47)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MxgD1v ... Ugx0GKs9QA
Vanessa et la magie des rêves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23tcFkz ... CgBNopQ4_K
Les 4 filles du Dr March (48)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz_74c5 ... dArOMJuWI7
Karine l'aventure du Nouveau Monde (50)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCa7Ve ... 9WDy8GznbY
Pollyanna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKyyCkh ... Nzicb_y-h-
Heidi fille des Alpes (52 episodes),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eNEHUV ... 230c2M_dCY
Les Jumeaux du bout du monde (52)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrmVx0C ... -JFm7z968o
Totally Spies (52 in total)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inKCn1N ... fT6GGmWxG1 (Season 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VKPvR3 ... TnZKkOFUFu (Season 2)
Mew Mew Powers (53)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nMlcMU ... MegrF7-02l
Gigi (63 episodes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9b9BP- ... OwA6eQXZYZ
Maya l'abeille (104)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... yoCGl_QN9Y

A playlist that has random clips of Caillou but they also have French subtitles availabe. I found them to have really helpful if you are at the A1/A2 stages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXv6RgJ ... qjSGv_ojmb
This channel has various clips of children TV shows (mainly Caillou and Le Petit Nicholas) with French subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/user/buenovelazquez/videos


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Re: Le groupe français 2016 - 2019 Les Voyageurs

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Wed Sep 11, 2019 11:40 pm

Les Belles Lettres have just published Journal de guerre (1939-1945) by Evelyn Waugh, translated by Julia Malye.
In addition there is a trilogy Sword of Honour, avec Hommes en armes, Officiers et Gentlemen et La Capitulation.. It isn't clear whether Les Belles Lettres carries them nor whether Malye translated them. FWIW.
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