Français quotidien

[wildeabandon]

Hier soir j'ai pris mon deuxième leçon de conversation. Il va beaucoup mieux que le premier. J'étais moins nerveux, et cela montrait. Le prof a semblé un peu surpris par combien je me suis amélioré depuis la semaine dernière. Nous avons parlé de Brexit. Il se demandais pourquoi, quand tous les gens il a demandé pensaient que Brexit ètait une idée terrible, personne a voté pour lui. J'ai expliqué que le plupart de les types qui a voté pour Brexit ne serais pas les types de apprendre une langue étrange, parce que ils n'aiment pas les étrangers! Il a semblé d'avoir une moment de clarté, et je me senti bien de communiquer des nouvelles idées, pourtant que simplement échanger des phrases fonctionnelles.

J'ai écouté la dernière épisode du podcast que j'écoutais pendant quelques semaines, est les ne sortent que une fois par mois, donc, j'ai dû trouver autre chose. J'ai essayé plusieurs podcasts mais aucun a saisi m'attention, et au lieu, je suis m'abonne à Audible, et a téléchargé 'Le Hobbit'.


Last night I had my second conversation lesson. It went much better than the first. I was less nervous, and it showed. The teacher seemed a bit suprised by how much I had improved since last week. We spoke about Brexit. He'd been wondering why, when all the people he had asked thought that Brexit was a terrible idea, anyone had voted for it. I explained that most of the people who had voted for Brexit were not the kind of people who would learn a foreign language, because they don't like foreigners! He seemed to have a lightbulb moment, and it felt good to be communicating new ideas, rather than just exchanging functional sentences.

I listened to the last episode of the podcast that I've been listening to the last few weeks, and they only come out once a month, so I had to find something else. I tried several podcasts, but none grabbed my attention, and instead I have subscribed to Audible, and downloaded 'The Hobbit'.

Comments

[judiff]

Ooo does it have French translations of the like Middle Earth specfic words? That must be really interesting but hard work to think up (and to decide their like gender and plurals and stuff).
The Estonian for Hobbit is Kaabik (we went to stay just after the (first) film came out)

[wildeabandon]

For the most part they seem to be the same so far. Bilbo is Bilbo Bessac (in the film he's Bilbon Sacquet), and Thorin's full name is translated as Thorïn Lécudechesne, but most of the first names seem roughly the same so far. I might be missing a lot of nuance though, as my oral comprehension is still somewhat limited - I'm getting the gist, but missing a lot of words, and relying on already being very familiar with the story.

[judiff]

Cool