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September 2009

Sep
25
2009

French Language – QA Answers

Here are the answers to the questions exercise I posted a few days back.

Que…?
Un livre.

Qui…?
Annette.

À qui…?
À Paul.

Combien…?
Cinquante.

Pourquoi…?
Parce qu’elle est triste.

Lequel…?
Celui qui est rose.

Quel…?
Le volleyball.

Comment…?
En voiture.

Où…?
À Paris.

Quand…?
Hier soir.

Post from: French Blog
 

Sep
24
2009

Learning Italian: The Movie

First there was Italian For Beginners, a light romantic comedy by Danish filmmaker Lone Scherfig that told the story of six lonely singles in their 30’s who pair off and travel together to Venice. Now there’s Learning Italian, a movie starring Kevin Costner as a CIA agent assigned to cover a Mafia boss in [...]

Sep
24
2009

A night at the opera

‘O.K., before all you opera fans start getting excited I will openly admit that on the whole I’m not that keen on it. That is, I’m not completely adverse to some of the tunes, especially the famous arias such as Nessun Dorma, but I wouldn’t normally go out of my way to see a performance, in [...]

Sep
23
2009

Spanish Slang September 22, 2009

Any carnivore who has been to Spain has surely eaten “chorizo”, that paprika laced sausage. Depending on context, calling someone a “chorizo” can mean “thief” or “idiot”.

Sep
23
2009

V and B pronounced the same

One of the common pronunciation mistakes made by English speakers when speaking Spanish is that they often pronounce the V much like they do in English. But that sound doesn’t exist in Spanish — in fact, vaca (cow) is pronounced the same as if it were spelled baca, and enviar (to send) sounds the same [...]