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the French really need to chill out about franglish, how many French loan words and phrases does English use? If I can talk about rendezvous in restaurants calling maître de’s in tete a tetes and that’s all common parlance, the French can have a weekend. As a treat.
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Tintin radio drama: where to listen?
There have been several radio adaptations of Tintin's adventures throughout the years. Of those, seven are still freely available online:
French
- Les aventures de Tintin (1959-1963) – two versions available: an abridged version on YouTube and a full version on the INA website*
- Les aventures de Tintin (2015- ) – available on the Radio France website
* The INA website requires a subscription to access the episodes, but the first month is free
English
- The Adventures of Tintin (1992-1993) – available on the Internet Archive
German
- Tim und Struppi (1984-1987) – available on the Play-Europa website
Danish
- Tintins oplevelser (1972-1983) – available on Spotify
Swedish
- Tintin (1970s-1980s) – available on YouTube
Spanish
- Las aventuras de Tintín (2023) – available on the RNE website
Here is a list of the adventures that were adapted in each version:
Youtube links for the Danish adaptations:
De syv krystalkugler (1972) - Soltemplet (1972) - Det hemmelige våben (1974) - Flight no. 714 til Sydney (1974) - Krabben med de gyldne kløer (1975) - Enhjørningens hemmelighed (1976) - Rackham den rødes skat (1976) - Tintin og picaroerne (1977) - Den mystiske stjerne (1978) - Den sorte ø (1978) - Tintin i Tibet (1980) - Koks i lasten (1980) - Alle tiders Tintin (1981) (excerpts from the above) - Månen tur-retur (1982, 1983)
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Little fact about French because I just learned that
The accent circonflexe (^) exists in French words to replace the “s” that no longer exists but used to be there in older French.
For example: fenêtre used to be fenestre
It is still possible to see the “s” at times in family words like “défenestrer”.
knowing this, « être » becomes much more regular :
- être → estre (es, est, sommes, ê[s]tes, sont ; ser-)
some French derivations become clearer :
- fenêtre → défenestrer → L. fenestra
- fête → festival
- hôpital → hospitaliser (E. hospital, ise)
- intérêt → intéressant (E. interest, -ing)
- ancêtre → ancestral (E. ancestor, -ral)
- arrêt → arrestation
- épître → épistolaire (E. epistle)
some English cognates become more obvious :
- hôtel → hostel (E. ‘hotel’ borrowed from French)
- forêt → forest (tipp to remember ^ goes on the ‹e›)
- bête → beast
- côte → coast
- honnête → honest
- pâte, pâté → pasta, paste
- quête → quest
- enquête → inquest
- tempête → tempest
- vêtements → vestments (ie. clothes)
- baptême → baptism
sometimes, the acute replaces the circumfex for phonetic reasons :
- ḗcole → escole → L. schola (E. school)
- ḗtranger → estrangier (E. stranger)
- ḗtudier → estudier (E. study)
- dḗgoûtant → desgoustant (E. disgusting)
- dḗbarquer → desembarquer (E. disembark)
- rḗpondre → respondre (E. respond)
- rḗpublique → L. res publica
Also, where « c → ch » (eg. cantare→ chanter) :
- château → castel (E. castle)
- pêcher → L. piscare
and « w → gu » (eg. war→ guerre ; warden→ guardian) :
- guêpe → E. wasp ! (this is my n° 1 favourite cognate)
bonus etymologies :
- tête → L. testa
- fantôme → L. phantasma (E. ‘phantom’ borrowed from French)
- Pâques → Gk. pásxa → Am. pésaḫ (E. Paschal)
Also just be aware that the circumflex has some other uses too, like distinguishing « sur — sûr » or « dû » and the vowel quality in « âge »
Where was this post when I was doing A-Level French! This is actually a really interesting language change called “syncope” (the loss of a medial segment within a word) and what makes it even more interesting to me is that not only was the -s- dropped post vocalically and largely before voiceless stops, but that the circumflex was (unnecessarily but coolly) adopted as an orthographic marker of the lost -s-. Even more interesting is that syncope usually occurs in vowels. I love this.
The loss of /s/ when there’s no vowel after it also a thing that’s happens more variably in some varieties of Spanish, such as pronouncing “estar” as /ehtar/ (which is a lot like French “être”). Here’s a paper about s-deletion in Argentine Spanish which summarizes some of the literature at the beginning.
It's amazing that the French word for "schedules" is "horaires". It sounds so much like the English "horror". How has a Canadian band not yet used this to write the best bilingual song out there.
(I'm assuming it hasn't been written yet, that is!)
#French#french langblr#linguistics!!#bilingual puns are the best#language learning#(you just know I'm swotting French rn; going to Montreal in a couple of weeks#last time I was there I fucked it up so bad a Queb painfully asked me to just please use English. A Quebecker! Gotta do better this time)#(i know shit but my pronunciation is so bad)#langblr
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Vous vs. Tu, French “you”.
Chart from the LA Times.
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big masterpost of fun things to do this summer
hi :) i like to make a big list of things i want to do each summer, and i thought i’d share all the resources i collected this year with y'all in case you want to do any of these things too <3
learn a new language. 🦜
i’ve collected a bunch of resources for french, korean, and mandarin so i’ll be making separate posts for those languages. but here’s some of my favourite resources - most of them are based off of krashen’s comprehensible input theory which is why they are fun resources:
- french: free grammar lessons and quizzes for all levels, watch french tv, read manga in french, a drive full of french books, a bunch of french culture podcasts, a list of french youtubers
- korean: anki grammar decks for all levels, super in depth grammar explanations up to advanced level, a bunch of resources, reddit’s ultimate beginner’s thread, read korean webtoon, talk to me in korean
- mandarin: a bunch of anki decks, grammar gamified, reading practice, chinese reading world, mandarin bean grammar points
- japanese: core 2000 words anki deck, grammar gamified on renshuu
- spanish: language transfer for spanish!
learn to draw. 🎨
this is more just a collection of art related resources. hope they help!
- proko’s art library, a bunch of sketching and fundamental tutorials
- the complete famous artists course
- collection of art books and resources
- alphonso dunn’s youtube channel
i got a guitar last summer on a whim and have been having a really fun time learning it! here’s the main resource i’ve been using.
similarly jazz piano is something i’ve wanted to get into for a while + improv. this person’s youtube channel is very cool!
write something and put it out into the world! ✍
i love to write and it took me a while to learn how to submit stuff to journals. hope these help you!
- a bunch of resources on how to submit to journals
- how to submit to literary magazines by doretta lau
- publishing 101
- chillsubs, an easy way to find journals to submit to
make your own video games. 🎮
by now if you follow me you know i love to make twine games. here are a couple of cool engines you can use for free!
take a free online course. 🧠
coursera has a lot of options, which i really like. i took Yale’s the science of well being a few years ago and it was great!
make your own music or learn how audio software works. 🎵
audionodes is a cool free browser software that lets you do this without downloading anything!
learn about personal finance. 💵
i feel like it’s hard to devote proper time to learning about personal finance so a lot of us rely on learning as we go, but there are some good resources and tools online that are quick and easy when you have 5-30 min to spare!
- PBS Two Cents youtube short vids about personal finance
- wealthsimple personal finance 101 (short videos. nicholas braun is in them for some reason)
- mint - free budgeting and goals software
- edspira - more technical side of finance, accounting, etc youtube channel
Thinking about how the French say "may a horse shit during your performance" to their actors
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i’ll be honest: texting in french is somewhat of a nightmare. things are often written phonetically and literally nothing will look like the french in your textbook. however, just like actual french; it may be nonsense, but it’s nonsense with rules.
in general: - no apostrophes - no accents - je/tu + être and je/tu + avoir become one word je suis → jsuis tu as → tas - je + any verb can become one word je dois → jdois - objects become one word je l’ai → jlai - basically anything that can be combined is combined
ajd - aujourd’hui bcp - beaucoup c - c’est dac - daccord dmn - demain eske - est-ce que g - j’ai gt - j’étais je ss - je suis jcp - je ne comprends pas jpp - j’en peux plus jsp - je ne sais pas jtm - je t’aime koa - quoi koi - quoi mdr - mort de rire mm - même oklm - au calme pq - pourquoi pr - pour prcq - parce que psk - parce que ptn - putain ui - oui wi - oui we - ouais ue - ouais qqch - quelque chose qqn - quelqu’un qlqn - quelqu’un qlq - quelqu’un sa - ça slt - salut ski - ce qui squi - ce qui stp - s’il te plaît svp - s’il vous plaît tfk - tu fais quoi tg - ta gueule tjr - toujours tqt - t'inquiète tt - tout wsh - wesh ya - il y a
hope this helps! and although i did make this list based off of things my friends have said, not everyone texts like this - don’t be too afraid!
Gotta love the practicality of French. “Vache laitière”. It means dairy animals, but if you look closely the ‘vache’ means cow. It’s a closed matter of simple practicality: the only dairy animal worth mentioning is a cow, so why not just call it them all ‘dairy cows’!
If you hear someone choking and dying in the corner ignore it, it's probably just me trying to pronounce "garder au réfrigérateur" 😔
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CRYING THIS IS LITERALLY SCOUT
he’s like a new england john mulaney
“i said, it’s eighty, right? and he said no, somethin’ WUHSE.”
#French#literally everything he said is true#except for the bit at the end which makes me think his French friend really enjoyed reaching the end lmao#100 = cent sympa et simple!#But Mr. Baltimore I WANT to see you do Welsh next!#languages#french#counting and number systems and stuff#language learning#langblr
What are English speakers trying to tell their Français friends
Today I learned there are situations where you don’t use liaison. Devastated.
Language learners be like when am I gonna go from lawless language to flawless language
#the answer is never#native speakers haven't nailed down flawless language#if they did we'd have to use that meme#'finally! Flawless language!'#language learning#languages#grammar#and conjugation will be the end of us all#oh and pronunciation#heard some french speakers today and genuinely had no brain left re: how they're able to shape their mouths into Sounds#they say Welsh is a hard language but goddamnit I find french infinitely harder#but I suppose that depends on what sounds exist in your native language system#I didn't find the sounds in Welsh too hard (surprisingly; I got ll and ch too which aren't really in my language)#but the French ll? Never and don't get me started on r#there's an audio tape of me my sister keeps of my trying to teach her the french R in a moment of heady pride and confidence#I think I sound fairly competent but she uses it as an antidepressant I kid you not#well I convinced her to focus on her pronunciation skills so she got Duolingo and now we'll see who's laughing about R!#Duolingo#french#linguistics is fascinating
The number of words that have “scotch” in them that you encounter in real life really only hit me when I saw them written in french as “- écossaise”. What all were the Scottish up to?
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