Saturday, July 22, 2006
j'ai oublié tout
If I do 11 pages, or about one chapter, of exercises a day from this book we have of French grammar review and practice, then I will get through the book in about a month, which is about how much time I have before I leave. Maybe then I will at least gain back whatever I had before and not make a fool of myself when I get there and try to start functioning in French, or at least not bomb the placement test at the Sorbonne. Keturah said I should watch French movies, and maybe I'll stop trying to drag myself through the translated version of Peter Pan and work on Le petit nicolas instead. Does anybody have any movie recommendations?? I'm serious about this now.
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I like Le Chambon (sur lignon?) and i've never seen amelie but everybody loves it, and red, white, and blue are interesting (i've heard). i've seen ponette - which was an experience. don't watch too many psychological french movies if you're depressed... :) but i might be taking the french cinema class next semester, although that would be too late for you. :) But Le Chambon is good. :) And most dvds have the option to play in French, even with French subtitles, which can be really fun and funny! (Pirates, vous etes prevenus- or something like that. did you know johnny deep speaks french?)
hey, does oublier need two e's for the past participle if you are female? i've forgotten far more than you, i'm sure. i have an amazing capacity to forget.
The past participle only needs to agree if the auxiliary verb is etre or if the direct object precedes the verb. I think I got it right this time.
Yes, I have watched Pirates in French, and I am currently in the middle of watching it again. That one works particularly well because I already have it memorized in English, so it's easier to understand the French. Yes, I would assume that Johnny Depp speaks French, because he lives in southern France with his girlfriend/wife chic and his two kids, but I've never heard him speak it. I wouldn't necessarily assume that he does his own dubbing, though. There must be a place that you can find out who does the voices on the foreign-language soundtracks, but it's not in the credits on the DVD as far as I've discovered.
There are some great grammar moments in Pirates. When Jack Sparrow is gathering his crew for his make-shift pirate ship to take back la perle noire, and Anna-Marie is confronting him about having stollen her ship. Jack proposes to get her a new boat, and Will pipes in, "That boat!" Jack: "Lequel?" Will: "Celui-la." Jack: "Aye, celui-la!" It's a beautiful example of disjunctive... object... prepositional pronoun... freakin' whatever those are.
Anyway, merci pour les recommandations. Je vais les regarder, si je peux les trouver.
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