Malgré plusieurs années…
Posted in Movies, Random Thoughts and tagged with foreign films, français, Movies on 10/24/2009 10:51 pm by MeganSo I watched L’auberge espagnole tonight. And it was lovely. It was very French, and I love that about it. It had some very funny parts, but mostly it was just interesting. Extremely watchable. Really loved the main character, Xavier. Audrey Tautou was overbilled on the DVD cover, but the scenes she was in were excellent. Whole thing was excellent, honestly. I highly recommend watching it.
I put the subtitles on, figuring it had been so long since I watched a movie in French, I wouldn’t understand much of it. But I did. More than I thought I would. The longer the movie went, the easier I found it to understand and the less I glanced down at the subtitles (except for the parts in Spanish, which I do not speak). It was very encouraging. Je n’ai pas parlé français depuis plusieurs années, mais je me rapelle plus que j’ai craint. Je suis un peu rouillée, mais c’est pas mal. I knew my reading French was still fairly fluent, but my speaking and listening is not what it once was. I majored in French my first two years at BYU, then turned it into my minor when I switched to archaeology. I still read novels in French, for fun, but I don’t get much opportunity for conversational French these days.
And I have to say, it’s a relief to have a laptop with a number pad so I can do alt code accents again. Fabuleux.
October 25th, 2009 at 10:58 am
You know, while I didn’t study as much as you, and I’d be completely lost without the subtitles, I can share this little ditty…
I was watching Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen disasters (the BBC version) and he was in a restaurant, eating. The owner came up to him just as Gordon was spitting out a bite and asked, “what does it taste like?”
“MERDE!” Gordon replied.
I totally got that one
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