After my transcendent run about 10 days ago, things went to hell with my back, and it became quite painful to type, and indeed to do most things. Heading to French Class Monday Night Although I have kept up religiously with…
Last night Brandt and I stayed home and watched the movie French Gigolo (2008) with Nathalie Baye. It was available through Time Warner, on the Free Movies on Demand channel, which is channel 1006 here on the Upper West Side. For Movies…
Yesterday I sampled something called Rocket French, from the company Rocket Languages. With offices in Santa Monica, Calif., and Christchurch, New Zealand, Rocket offers products for 11 languages, from French and Spanish to Arabic and American Sign Language. MegaVerbs! …
In Chelsea today, I saw this poster at a bus stop. The guy shown in the photos is an actor from Paris who deploys innovative job-search techniques. An Actor From Paris, Seeking Work, Not Timidly I find myself leaving accents…
I’m now getting better with idioms and subjunctive, but my overall pace of learning has slowed. I Just Noticed Our Hand Soap Is Bilingual At the beginning, French from college was pouring back into my brain, but now that…
Grammar books often give the funniest sentences as examples. Yesterday I came across the translation for this in one of the books I am using: “As soon as he had left, she would open the windows.” Spring Has Arrived at…
This morning at Café Margot, there were to my delight two tables full of French-speaking women, unfortunately separated from me by one table, at which there was another foreign language being spoken: Hebrew. If I had been studying Hebrew, I…
Yesterday I visited the first public French-American charter school in New York City, called—appropriately—the New York French-American Charter School. 116th Street Subway Station Art Heading East on 118th Street Headed by Katrine Watkins, it is located on 120th…
This morning while drinking coffee at a local café, I thought I heard French. Looking up, I spied what I thought was a French couple in line waiting to order. The woman half of the couple came over to the…
Yesterday morning I went to Harlem, exiting the subway at 110th and Lenox and walking north to 116th. I had a particular destination in mind, one that I thought would produce some opportunities to talk about and speak French as…
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