Language Lesson : Week 13
August 12, 2009
82. Learn 2 new French words and 1 French idiom a week (13/143) (more info)
83. Learn 2 new ASL signs a week (13/143) (more info)
French Vocab:
livre (n. m) – book : I read the entire book. – J’ai lu le livre entier.
lire – (v. conjugate)– read : Do you read often? – Lisez-vous souvent?
French Idiom
à la côte – on the rocks; in difficulty; in trouble (lit.: at the edge)
ASL vocab
book – Both hands begin open with palms together. The hands seperate at the thumbs and openning much like a book. (video)
read – The right V-hand moves down the open palm of the left hand as it jiggles back and forth slightly. (video)
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I love this blog post every week, because one of my goals is to learn French, thanks for the help lol!
Glad to help! Feel free to suggest words or phrases :)
Dear Tara
I wondered if you might like a mutual link to both my Foreign word site and my English word website or press release details of my ensuing book with Penguin Press on amusing and interesting English vocabulary?
http://www.thewonderofwhiffling.com
with best wishes
Adam Jacot de Boinod
(author of The Meaning of Tingo)
(www.themeaningoftingo.com)
adamjacot@fastmail.co.uk
or wish to include:
1) THE MEANING OF TINGO
When photographers attempt to bring out our smiling faces by asking us
to “Say Cheese”, many countries appear to follow suit with English
equivalents. In Spanish however they say patata (potato), in Argentinian Spanish whisky, in French steak frites, in Serbia ptica (bird) and in
Danish appelsin (orange). Do you know of any other varieties from around the world’s languages? See more on http://www.themeaningoftingo.com
2) THE WONDER OF WHIFFLING
The Wonder of Whiffling is a tour of English around the globe (with fine
coinages from our English-speaking cousins across the pond, Down Under
and elsewhere).
Discover all sorts of words you’ve always wished existed but never knew,
such as fornale, to spend one’s money before it has been earned; cagg, a solemn vow or resolution not to get drunk for a certain time; and
petrichor, the pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a
dry spell.
Delving passionately into the English language, I also discover why it
is you wouldn’t want to have dinner with a vice admiral of the narrow
seas, why Jacobites toasted the little gentleman in black velvet, and
why a Nottingham Goodnight is better than one from anywhere else. See
more on http://www.thewonderofwhiffling.com
with best wishes
Adam
On a reading kick, I see :) Just a note, if you’re saying I read (past tense), it’d be “j’ai lu”, but if you’re in the present tense you’re fine. That’s the problem with reading the word read…you can’t tell from the pronunciation what tense it’s in!
More on a book collecting kick so I can continue to have more books that I own and haven’t read lol
I noticed that but didn’t take the time to fix it. The sentence definitely would make more sense in the past tense :) Thank you!