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Cepage
Kir Kir royal Pain Pain au chocolat Pain au chocolat et amendes Demi Sans gaz Profiterolles Glaces Au revoir |
Here you go: http://www.audiofrench.com/vocabulary/animaux.htm
scroll down to écureuil on the right-hand side and listen. |
Bordeaux
Burgundy Alsace Cotes du Rhone Liberon Val du Loire bouchon verre nez boire |
calm
genteel Haussmann cafe noir baguette fromage vin sunset sunrise peaceful |
Henri Matisse
Claude Monet Paul Cézanne Pierre-Auguste Renoir Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec |
StCirq, silure = catfish?
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Silure is a big big fish that my French in-laws claim infests the Loire River - i have been trying to find what we call it - Catfish may be it and if it is i will laugh next time they tell me how dangerous this huge 'catfish' is.
But my French son just said 'silure' is not a catfish (poisson chat) so i still am looking to find out what a silure is. |
Noun 1. Silurus - type genus of the Siluridae: catfishes
genus Silurus fish genus - any of various genus of fish family Siluridae, Siluridae - Old World catfishes European catfish, sheatfish, Silurus glanis - large elongated catfish of central and eastern Europe well son is wrong - it is a plain ole catfish |
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Silure most certainly is catfish. They're everywhere in the Dordogne, and they're big. They are cultivated in the aquarium in Le Bugue as well. You see them all the time when you canoe on the Dordogne.
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The various architecture through out France.
markets, flea and food,some shell fish I never tasted or saw before. regional wines, calvados, cheeses. apertifs and the beauty=fountains, campaniles, lavoirs, gardens, lavender, sunflower, cozel fields,light houses and finally, the generosity of the people I met throughout France. |
sorry Pal, couldn't do it in two words.
Paris would have been easier. |
Thanks for the link, StCirq. You're right that it would be nearly impossible to spell it out phonetically. There's seems to be some sort of pushed-air roll in the back of the throat with the "eui."
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Yes, sap. I once actually gave someone on the old AOL France board my phone number so he could call me and hear the correct pronunciation, which is certainly difficult for most Americans, at least. My ex-husband never mastered it,even after years of living within a few miles of Limeuil every summer. My kids and I used to try over and over again to get him to get it right - he just couldn't. All sorts of strange sounds come naturally to me, fortunately, and I'm a really good mimic, so this kind of stuff is relatively easy to me. I think it's a musical gene or something.
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Du bon pain, du bon vin, et le culte de l'individu.
(sorry that's 12 words) |
If it can help, "euil" is like oeil (eye in French) or feuille (leaf)
Le culte de l'individu? Hanl do you mean we are selfish? |
Well I can't speak of France generally, only Paris.
rue de Buci :) St Germain des Pres Champagne foie gras Ritz confit de canard Pont des Arts Louvre Notre Dame pain au chocolat |
Cocofromdijon, no not selfish! I know lots of lovely, kind, generous French people :)
What I mean is that it has always seemed to me that protecting the rights of the individual is a big part of the French identity. Sometimes this comes at the expense of the greater good, but not always. It's hard to put into a few words, but "le culte de l'individu" is how my (French) husband summed it up to me! |
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wine boulangerie croissants crepes profiteroles language eploration relaxation love |
Coco Cherie - ca va bien? Tu m'attendra au Gare de Dijon cet Sett 31em, comme le dernier fois? a midi? Merci, encore. Salut.
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