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
Today, I’ll give you another very short vocabulary activity to work on. French teachers can use this exercise as a quick warm-up activity. I will provide the answers in a later post (in a few days) so you have plenty of time to get to it.
I thought of this word this afternoon when I had to get after my 3 year-old daughter. (Hint, hint..)
| admonester (verb)
Context: Julie a admonesté son petit chien pour avoir jappé quand quelqu’un a frappé à la porte.
Create three synonyms for admonester?
_ e_ m_ _ _ _ _
_r_ _ _ _ _
r_ _ _ _ _ _ _ r
Write a sentence of your own using the word admonester. |
Vous pouvez partager vos phrases avec nous dans un commentaire !
Posted by Chanda
One of our readers asked if I would write an article on slang that young people use. Although I’m not going to say I’m any kind of expert as my teenage days are long over, this article is an attempt to find something for him.
Some young people, especially those in urban neighborhoods speak what is known as langue djeunz (as in langue des jeunes). Some of this slang is also used among families and friends outside the big cities through the spread of hip hop culture and SMS language. Much of modern French slang comes from the influence of foreign words (English, Arabic, etc.). One form of this slang is what is called verlan, which some of my French friends introduced me to when I lived in Paris. Verlan is all about reversing the syllables of a word, but not usually with words with more than three syllables. And it has to sound cool, so sometimes the word is then changed a bit to be pleasing to the ear. The word verlan actually comes from reversing the syllables of l’envers (reverse or back to front).
l’envers → ver
l’envers → lan (although for phonological reasons, the e was changed to an a to make verlan)
Here are some French words in verlan:
femme - meuf (woman)
énervé - vénère (angry)
arabe - beur (Arab)
cigarette - garette-ci (which was later transformed to garo)
bizarre - zarbi (strange)
père - reup (father)
Finally, here’s a really interesting website in French on French slang. There are even fables by Jean de La Fontaine in slang. Le Dictionnaire Argôt Français
Et merci de nouveau Ryan pour ton commentaire!
