I wrote a really short post about this French television show a few weeks ago – a very short, shitty little post that didn’t do it justice. It really is my favorite show of the year – of several years, really. (Hm… not counting The Americans. That show remains way up high on my list.) WeContinue Reading
French
sans queue ni tête
C’est assez naturel que j’ai finalement choisi de m’immerger dans la langue française. Depuis aussi longtemps que je me souvienne, j’adore les films français, la culture, l’art, et bien sûr la cuisine… mais principalement, j’aime la culture française de la philosophie, la sexualité… Toujours, je suis obsédée par les films d’art spécialisés et les filmsContinue Reading
le courant de conscience: je lis, j’ai lu, je lirai / leo, leí, leeré
I used to read an extraordinary amount. When I was a child, I would always ask for several books for Christmas, and my mother would always oblige and wrap a tall stack of books for me to find under the tree. She did this, buying me a pile of books, knowing that I would immediatelyContinue Reading
je practique le français
I am going to *try* to get into the habit of writing some posts in French before each test, using the vocab and grammar from the unit. I write a lot by hand, of course, but sometimes having to maneuver with a keyboard in different languages helps things stick. Plus, I just enjoy writing inContinue Reading
la musique française / Pink Martini
In my quest to reach C2 level in French by the end of 2018, I’ll be spending a lot of time going back to old favorite French songs and musicians, as well as French movies I’ve loved and a few television series I’ve discovered along the way. One of the songs that’s been stuck inContinue Reading