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the diving bell and the butterfly

In Movies, People, Writing, books, culture, film, french on 14 July 2008 with 2 comments

Today while waiting the two hours and forty minutes to pick up my defective iphone, I had the great pleasure to read my second favorite gift from cover to cover The Diving Bell and The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby. I’m sure by now everyone has heard of the excellent movie chronicling the former editor of [...]

Another Paris Snapshot: the boy in the café

In Paris, People, Uncategorized, french on 23 May 2008 with 576 comments

There are endless moments in life you want to capture, so picturesque and ideal, that the world, conspiring against you, makes an impossible task. So instead we commit the moment to memory, determined to explain it as best as possible when the opportunity arises.
I nearly forgot about him, the boy in the café, until I [...]

BBC Teaches French

In culture, france, french on 15 January 2008 with 95 comments

So I’m trying to find a cheap and easy way to pick up a little french. It doesn’t have to be conversational as honestly I wonder how conversational you can be after studying a language for 3 months, but I’d like to be at the very least be able to feel like I’m trying. There [...]