Posted by Chanda
Here are the answers to the vocabulary activity I posted a few days ago:
admonester : réprimander vivement (to admonish)
sermonner (to lecture)
gronder (to scold)
réprouver (to reprove)
Comment avez-vous fait?
Posted by Chanda
While the title of this French vocabulary article may seem a bit misleading, this exercise on family words may prove to be fun and helpful to your learning process. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate French word, or even better yet, let us know what your answers are in a comment!
1. La mère de ma mère c’est ma _______________.
2. Les enfants de mon oncle ce sont mes ________.
3. La fille de ma mère c’est ma ________________.
4. Le frère de mon père c’est mon ______________.
5. Le père de mon père c’est mon ______________.
6. Le frère de mon oncle c’est mon _____________.
7. La sœur de ma mère c’est ma _______________.
8. La sœur de ma tante c’est ma _______________.
Posted by Chanda
Some time ago, I began a French Scattegories game with this blog and it’s time for another round!! So, put your French vocabulary to the test!
I’ll remind you of the rules:
Règles
Je vous donne dix catégories et une lettre. Vous devez répondre avec un mot qui commence avec cette lettre. Évidement, vous ne devez pas répondre le même que les autres et il faut être créatif. Bonne chance!
Also, please remember that you can’t enter more than one word for each category. Have fun!
Lettre: M
Catégories:
1. l’architecture
2. la nature
3. les voyages
4. les villes
5. la fête
6. le mariage
7. le sport
8. les nombres
9. les langues
10. la musique
I believe emmanuel was the winner of the last round. Let’s see who wins this one…write a comment with your answers.
Posted by Chanda
Possibly most famous in the US as Johnny Depp’s long-time love and mother of his two children, Vanessa Paradis was born on December 22, 1972 in a town near Paris where she took piano and dance lessons. Now a successful singer, actress and Chanel model, she became a child star in 1987 at just 14 years of age after the release of her single Joe le taxi, which was #1 on the French charts for 11 weeks and rose to #3 on the UK charts. In 1990, she won the Victoire de la Musique Female Performer of the Year award with her second album, Variations sur le même t’aime. In 1992, she moved to the US to work with Lenny Kravitz, who wrote and produced her English-language album “Vanessa Paradis”, the most successful single from which was entitled “Be My Baby”. Bliss was released in 2000 and Divinidylle in 2007, with which she won several music awards and nominations in France.
She is rumored to currently be working on a Greatest Hits album.
She filmed her first movie as an actress, Noce blanche, in 1989, for which she received the 1990 César Award for Most Promising Actress despite her later claim that the filming process with the Director was not a good experience for her. In 1994, she worked with Gérard Depardieu in the film Elisa. Perhaps one of her most famous films in the US is the French movie La fille sur le pont (The Girl on the Bridge), released in 1999 in France and in 2000 abroad, and for which she was nominated for another César Award. Her official website is Vanessa Paradis de A à Z.
