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Regrets- Mylene Farmer


Here's a beautiful song from the early 90's. 


Regrets lyrics

En duo avec Jean-Louis Murat
Loin très loin du monde
Où rien ne meurt jamais
J´ai fait ce long,
Ce doux voyage,
Nos âmes se confondent
Aux neiges éternelles
L´amour cachait
Son vrai visage
Oh viens, ne sois plus sage
Après tout qu´importe
Je sais la menace
Des amours mortes
Gardons l´innocence
Et l´insouciance
De nos jeux d´antan, troublants.
N´aie pas de regret
Fais moi confiance, et penses
A tous les no way
L´indifférence des sens
N´aie pas des regret
Fais la promesse, tu sais que
L´hiver et l´automne n´ont pu s´aimer
Debout la tête ivre
Des rêves suspendus
Je bois à nos amours
Infirmes
Au vent que je devine
Nos lèvres éperdues
S´offrent des noces
Clandestines
N´ouvre pas la porte
Tu sais le piège
De tous les remords
De l´anathème
Je me fous des saisons
Viens je t´emmène
Là, où dorment ceux qui s´aiment.
 N´aie pas...                            
Viens ce soir
 De regret
Viens me voir
 Fais moi confiance, et penses
 A tous...
Viens t'asseoir
 Les no way
Près de moi
 L´indifférence des sens
 N´aie pas...
L'aube est là
 De regret
Reste là
 Fais la promesse, tu sais que
Je te promets
 L´hiver et l´automne
D'être là
 N´ont pu s´aimer
Pour l'éternité

 

Posted by Kimberly at 1/11/2011 2:12 AM | View Comments (25) | Add Comment

Classic French song by Francoise: Comment te dire adieu.


Another great classic French song by Francoise Hardy:  Comment te dire adieu.


Comment te dire adieu

Sous aucun pretexte
Je ne veux
Avoir de reflexes
Malheureux
Il faut que tu m' explique un peu mieux
Comment te dire adieu


Mon coeur de silex
Vite prend feu
Ton coeur de pyrex
Resiste au feu
Je suis bien perplexe
Je ne veux
Me resoudre aux adieus
Je sais bien qu'un ex
Amour n'as pas de chance ou si peu
Mais pour moi une explication voudrait mieux
Sous aucun pretexte
Je ne veux
Devant toi surexposer mes yeux
Derriere un kleenex je saurais mieux
Comment te dire adieu
Comment te dire adieu

Répétez la chanson souvent!!

Posted by Kimberly at 1/7/2011 11:40 AM | View Comments (6) | Add Comment

Official World Cup Africa Song - people went mad for it! Lyrics partially in French. Enjoy!


Chanson officielle Coupe du Monde 2010 (Anglais et Francais)


Give me freedom,     give me fire Give me reason,        take me higher        See the champions,    take the field now,   Unify us,         make us feel proud, In the streets,            our hands are lifting,          As we lose our inhibition,   Celebration    it surrounds us   Every nations all around us

Tant que l'on avance ensemble Dans la gloire comme dans la défaite    Célébration Soweto France   On a tous le même refrain en tête

We all say        

On est des soldats Sans arme au combat      Ce soir la mission  C'est de chanter dans les stades   chanter dans les stades

When I get older, I will be stronger, They'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag So wave your flag Now wave your flag...

Plusieurs uniformes,        une seule passion Derrière onze hommes,                   une seule nation    Nous les enfants,   aux vies sévères     Voir nos champions                nous fait rêver      Dans les rues,      nos        mains sont en l'air           Marque nos humeurs,      joie comme colère          Tous unis sous,           une même bannière Qu'importe l'issue        on a gagné 

Tant que l'on avance ensemble Dans la gloire comme dans la défaite    Célébration Soweto France   On a tous le même refrain en tête

When I get older, I will be stronger, They'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag So wave your flag Now wave your flag...

On est des soldats Sans arme au combat     Ce soir la mission   C'est de chanter dans les stades   Chanter dans les stades...

When I get older, I will be stronger, They'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag So wave your flag Now wave your flag.

On est des soldats Sans arme au combat     Ce soir la mission   C'est de chanter dans les stades   Chanter dans les stades...

When I get older, I will be stronger, They'll call me freedom, just like a waving flag So wave your flag Now wave your flag...

On est des soldats Sans arme au combat     Ce soir la mission   C'est de chanter dans les stades   Chanter dans les stades... 


 

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Posted by Kimberly at 12/29/2010 1:49 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Love this new French artist. Song with lyrics. Voilà!

 

Je Veux :
Donnez moi une suite au Ritz, je n'en veux pas !

Des bijoux de chez CHANEL, je n'en veux pas !
Donnez moi une limousine, j'en ferais quoi ? papalapapapala
Offrez moi du personnel, j'en ferais quoi ?
Un manoir a Neufchatel, ce n'est pas pour moi.
Offrez moi la Tour Eiffel, j'en ferais quoi ? papalapapapala

Refrain:
Je Veux d'l'amour, d'la joie, de la bonne humeur, ce n'est pas votre argent qui f'ra mon bonheur, moi j'veux crever la main sur le coeur papalapapapala allons ensemble, découvrir ma liberté, oubliez donc tous vos clichés, bienvenue dans ma réalité.

J'en ai marre de vos bonnes manières, c'est trop pour moi !
Moi je mange avec les mains et j'suis comme ça !
J'parle fort et je suis franche, excusez moi !
Finie l'hypocrisie moi j'me casse de là !
J'en ai marre des langues de bois !
Regardez moi, toute manière j'vous en veux pas et j'suis comme çaaaaaaa (j'suis comme çaaa) papalapapapala

Refain x3:
Je Veux d'l'amour, d'la joie, de la bonne humeur, ce n'est pas votre argent qui f'ra mon bonheur, moi j'veux crever la main sur le coeur papalapapapala Allons ensemble découvrir ma liberté, oubliez donc tous vos clichés, bienvenue dans ma réalité !

Posted by Kimberly at 12/16/2010 11:23 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Another Favorite French song to practice - repeat until memorized for incredible results


La Chanson de prevert

Oh je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes
Cette chanson était la tienne
C'était ta préférée je crois
Qu'elle est de Prévert et Kosma
Et chaque fois "Les feuilles mortes"
Te rappellent à mon souvenir
Jour après jour les amours mortes
N'en finissent pas de mourir

Avec d'autres, bien sur, je m'abadonne
Mais leur chanson est monotone
Et peu à peu je m'indiffère
A cela il n'est rien à faire

Car chaque fois les feuilles mortes
Te rappellent à mon souvenir
Jour après jour les amours mortes
N'en finissent pas de mourir

Peut on jamais savoir par où commence
Et quand finit l'indifférence
Passe l'automne, vienne l'hiver
Et que la chanson  de Prévert

Cette chanson "Les feuilles mortes"
S'efface de mon souvenir
|: Et ce jour là mes amours mortes
En auront fini de mourir

Posted by Kimberly at 12/15/2010 12:21 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Excellent French song to practice/learn French


Learn French and/or increase your comprehension dramatically with music.  The results are profound.  Here's a great classic.  Lyrics below.



Tous les garcons et les filles

Tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge
se promènent dans la rue deux par deux
tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge
savent bien ce que c'est d'être heureux

et les yeux dans les yeux et la main dans la main
ils s'en vont amoureux sans peur du lendemain
oui mais moi, je vais seule par les rues, l'âme en peine
oui mais moi, je vais seule, car personne ne m'aime

mes jours comme mes nuits
sont en tous points pareils
sans joies et pleins d'ennuis
personne ne murmure "je t'aime" à mon oreille

tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge
font ensemble des projets d'avenir
tous les garçons et les filles de mon âge
savent très bien ce qu'aimer veut dire

et les yeux dans les yeux et la main dans la main
ils s'en vont amoureux sans peur du lendemain
oui mais moi, je vais seule par les rues, l'âme en peine
oui mais moi, je vais seule, car personne ne m'aime

mes jours comme mes nuits
sont en tous points pareils
sans joies et pleins d'ennuis
oh! quand donc pour moi brillera le soleil?

comme les garçons et les filles de mon âge
connaîtrais-je bientôt ce qu'est l'amour?
comme les garçons et les filles de mon âge
je me demande quand viendra le jour

où les yeux dans ses yeux et la main dans sa main
j'aurai le coeur heureux sans peur du lendemain
le jour où je n'aurai plus du tout l'âme en peine
le jour où moi aussi j'aurai quelqu'un qui m'aime

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Does music help us learn language?


The following article from Cognitive Daily supports what some of us have just begun to understand about the role music can play in learning a new language.

Does music help us learn language?

Category: Language • Music and sound • Research
Posted on: June 19, 2008 8:32 AM, by Dave Munger

ResearchBlogging.orgOne of the first steps to learning a language is figuring out where one word ends and the next one begins. Since fluent speakers don't generally pause between words, it can be a daunting task. We've discussed one of the ways people do it in this post — they focus in on consonant sounds. Other researchers have found that we also focus on the statistical properties of language.

Certain syllables are likely to follow each other within individual words, but unlikely to follow each other between words. Take the phrase "between words." In English, within a single word we're much more likely to hear bet followed by ween than ween followed by wor.

Researchers have found that if you make up nonsense words like gimysi and mimosi and play a constant stream of these words to listeners, the listeners will eventually figure out the boundaries of the words based solely on the statistical properties of the words.

But still, it can take a long time to pick up the word boundaries. A team led by Daniele Schön invented just six words: gimysi, mimosi, pogysi, pymiso, sipygy, and sysipi, and after seven minutes of listening to these words repeated in random order, student volunteers couldn't distinguish between them. It took over 20 minutes for listeners to learn where one word started and the next one ended.

Schön's team suspected that singing the words might improve listeners' ability to parse them. After all, mothers often sing to their infants. Perhaps one purpose of singing is to help children learn language faster. In a second experiment, the researchers assigned a unique pitch to each of the syllables used in their six words (gi was C5, my was D5, and sy was F5, and so on). A speech synthesizer played back the words in a sing-song fashion, with a musical note assigned to each syllable.

After listening to the words for seven minutes, the volunteers were tested. They heard three-syllable "words" from the original list and partial words composed of fragments of real words (for example, mysimi, made from gimysi and mimosi). How accurate were listeners at identifying the original words? Here are the results:

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The dotted line in each graph represents the average score for all listeners, and each square is the average score for an individual listener. As you can see, in the speech-only experiment, listeners did no better than chance. But in the second experiment, nearly everyone did better than chance, and the average score was 64 percent correct — significantly better than chance performance. Simply associating each syllable with a musical note improved performance.

But in real songs, syllables aren't always matched with the same notes. Sometimes different syllables get the same note, and sometimes the same syllable is sung with a different note. In a third experiment, Schön's team allowed the notes to vary with each syllable. Again, listeners could identify words at a rate better than chance (though they weren't as good as in the second experiment).

Schön and her colleagues don't go so far as to argue that music is a requirement for learning language, but they do make the case that the extra information provided in music can facilitate language learning. They also suggest that other information, like gestures, might be equally helpful for learning a language.

But there is additional evidence suggesting that music plays an important role in language. Similar areas of the brain are activated when listening to or playing music and speaking or processing language. Language and music are both associated with emotions. And of course, we know that children — especially small children — really like music. This study offers another bit of evidence that the link between language and music may be a fundamental one.

D Schon, I Peretz, M Besson, M Boyer, R Kolinsky, S Moreno (2008). Songs as an aid for language acquisition Cognition, 106 (2), 975-983 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.03.005

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Continuing on with French

 
My last post was a few years ago.  It's been a busy time. We moved out of state and after two years at the Lycée, I finally realized it was up to me to keep the girls up on their French.  The interesting thing is, I improved my own French in the most dramatic way during this same two year period.  I'd had 6 years of French (beginning in 7th grade), followed by four years in college, and a six month semester at the University of Paris.  Clearly, living in Paris was the ultimate learning experience.  However, upon my return to the States I very quickly realized the change in my comprehension once I immersed myself in French music.  It was a profound difference.  At the Lycée music is a huge part of the children's curriculum at all ages.  This is not only for building language skills but equally for cultural emphasis. 
 
So we now listen to French music regularly.  I have scoured so many sources (including the internet) for my favorite songs and created lyric scripts so we can sing along.  I'll be sharing many of these songs here so if you are also learning French, check back and listen to some great music while you learn. 
 
I have so much passion for this language...it really moves me.

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Forward Thinking Parents Exposing Children To Foreign Language In Early Years


CHANGE: the world is changing .  Our planet is changing. As Americans... we want our future president to bring about change in our Government.  What about ourselves as individuals?  Can or should Americans get out of the frame of mind that the world revolves around us.   With respect to Foreign Language, should we rely on the fact that most other countries we interact with speak our language?   Technology is enabling other countries to catch up with us in so many ways.  Yet in many ways, we as Americans are not making the shift towards true global thinking. 

Our Government recognizes the need for our Country to teach and expose our children to other cultures and languages.  There are articles about Govenment initiatives that leaders have tried to implement on this subject for more than two decades.  Nothing of major significance has been implemented (except in the private sector and in small regional localities).   At least none that I have been able to locate in my research.  If you know of any, I would love to hear from you.

The rest of the world lives by this way of thinking.  We are so isolated, as a country.  Living in most any part of Europe, one is often only a few hours drive from another foreign Country with all its customs and language.  I suppose this makes it more natural or logical for them to learn about each other.  The resulting riches to these peoples is immeasureable and includes a global sophistication that many Americans lack. 
 
So, I hope to get a feel for Americans thoughts and impressions about the subject of teaching Foreign Language for our children.   I strongly believe in the importance of this topic.  Our children are enrolled at a French Immersion school, which they began September 2007.  This is the first step of many in which we hope will lead to a richer appreciation for this world and to give our children a competitive advantage in their futures.

I love this school!  On the first day, entering the grounds and hearing all the languages spoken by the parents, Bonjour, ca va, Oui ca va... Bonjour, Bonjour, I felt the thrill of an adventure, as if I were overseas. In my older daughters 1st grade class, the majority of the children in the classroom speak 3, 4 and even 5 languages already.  My daughter is one of a few that is only starting her second.  English is the language that the children speak together on the playground.  The families are many diiferent combinations of American, French, British, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Italian and others.  Being able to expose the kids to so many cultures is very fulfilling. 
  
One day recently as I went to pick up my kindergartner a little early from her classroom, I heard a slightly loud chanting as I approached the door.  I opened the door not sure if I was interrupting...to see the kinder teacher with her arm raised high in the air, encouraging the children to join in the phrase "Vivent le roi et la reine"!!!  "Vivent le roi et la reine"!  She cheered (Long live the king and the queen)! Such passion is contagious!!  This was Roi de la Galette week.  A week where the school recognizes a French holiday where a special pastry type of cake is baked by all the people of the towns.  Inside is a little figurine and the lucky child who finds it gets to wear a crown for the day.  It's the Galette des Rois.  The feast of Kings!  This type of activity is a regular thing in the Lycee. This is a full French immersion school where all instruction in the classroom is done in French (except for one hour per day of English) .  There is exposure to many cultures and customs and teaching is done from a global perspective. Overall it has been an incredible experience. I believe we put our girls into the school just before we missed the opportunity.  The school recommends getting the children in as young as possible - preschool age.  Learning a new Language at a young age is almost effortless as compared to learning languages as an adult.   We plan in the future to begin to learn Mandarin Chinese as a family at home, and continue through at the Lycee.  
 

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Reasons to Learn Foreign Languages

  1. Career advancement/ higher pay/ better positions/ little or no competition.
  2. Personal self confidence and enrichment.  Builds a sense of pride and empowerment.  
  3. Be part of the new global civilization.
  4. Be a better representative of America.  Other cultures learn our language, we should do the same / new thinking.
  5. Forward thinking parents are pursuing foreign languages for their children.  Today, our children are part of this small group in this country.  We consider this a "gift" to our kids for their future, as I considered my parents game me this gift of language. 
  6. Widely accepted fact that children who are bilingual or mulitlingual have greater brain cognition.  This has been demonstrated in many test groups with drastically better scores on Standardized tests in Elementary Grades through to College tests such as SAT and ACT.

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