#french class
Saint Etienne des Orgues, 2017
Les déjeuner d’été, rythmés par le chant des grillons, les rires qui fleurent le rosé et les douces odeurs de lavande, de thym, de romarin…
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Student1: How are things?
Student2: Oh you know, gettin’ ready for vacation.
Student 1: Yeah. This is that week that we crawl through… Thankfully I have the stamina of TWO personalities.
After a student discussion concerning the word “malaise” (which was taken from French), we decided that it (aptly, based on its’ linguistic roots) is used in the English language to name a general or vague feeling of uneasiness. A few minutes passed as everyone began to move on with their work. And then …
Student question: So … what does that say about Malaysia?
Me: It’s a land where everyone is slightly uncomfortable.
I’m such a good teacher.
just spent like 10 minutes talking to my students about what kind of verb “yeet” would be in French… consensus is that it would be a regular -ER verb (du 1er groupe) in the present tense (ahem: yeeter), but the past participle would be “yoté”. The only thing we couldn’t decide was if it was used more intransitively or transitively (which could impact its auxiliary verb)… feel free to weigh in, this is probably going to keep me up at night
When I was a Freshman in high school learning various French food & vegetable vocabulary, my French teacher mentioned that “mon petit chou” was a French term of endearment. I remember thinking that calling someone “my little cabbage” was hilarious … it wasn’t until much later that I learned about chou PASTRY, and that a much better translation of “mon petit chou” would be “my little cream puff”.
Fast-forward to this topic coming up in my French 1 class last week, when my students unanimously agreed that they liked the cabbage meaning better (aka. theyfound it hysterical) and proclaimed that cabbage should probably be the international symbol of all appreciation.
Then fast-forward a little bit more, because today one of them brought me a cabbage.
