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tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-07-22 08:23 pm
tenlittlebullets) wrote2007-07-22 08:23 pm
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But which is bigger, a paving stone or a brick?
Happy birthday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lady_iphigeneia! I have no frenchboy porn for a birthday present at the moment, but I do have something vaguely amusing from the Cimetière de la Chartreuse.
My last private lesson, on Friday, consisted of the instructor telling me, "Give me a summary of Les Mis. All of it. Don't gloss over the details." Which is possibly the most brilliant strategy ever to get me to talk in French for over an hour nonstop, even if I never did manage to come up with the necessary vocabulary for "substituting shellac for resin in the manufacture of glass beads." Also, continuing the Saga of Awesome, she ended the lesson by telling me I should write LM fanfiction in French.
(A side note: the musical is almost unheard of here; the story has been absorbed into the culture, but in different ways. Mention LM and people will think of Cosette or Gavroche or Jean Valjean or the Thénardiers, almost never Javert or Fantine or Eponine. The idea that the English made a musical out of Les Misérables is almost as amusing to the French as... well... the idea that the French made a musical out of Romeo and Juliet is to the English. Also, the teacher of my morning classes mentioned that an informal term for a very thick/long book is a "paving stone," and looked mystified when I burst out laughing.)
lady_iphigeneia! I have no frenchboy porn for a birthday present at the moment, but I do have something vaguely amusing from the Cimetière de la Chartreuse.My last private lesson, on Friday, consisted of the instructor telling me, "Give me a summary of Les Mis. All of it. Don't gloss over the details." Which is possibly the most brilliant strategy ever to get me to talk in French for over an hour nonstop, even if I never did manage to come up with the necessary vocabulary for "substituting shellac for resin in the manufacture of glass beads." Also, continuing the Saga of Awesome, she ended the lesson by telling me I should write LM fanfiction in French.
(A side note: the musical is almost unheard of here; the story has been absorbed into the culture, but in different ways. Mention LM and people will think of Cosette or Gavroche or Jean Valjean or the Thénardiers, almost never Javert or Fantine or Eponine. The idea that the English made a musical out of Les Misérables is almost as amusing to the French as... well... the idea that the French made a musical out of Romeo and Juliet is to the English. Also, the teacher of my morning classes mentioned that an informal term for a very thick/long book is a "paving stone," and looked mystified when I burst out laughing.)