Whether you’re about to take an exam or are simply interested in Japanese culture, here’s an article and a preparatory quiz. After reading it carefully, I invite you to take an in-depth quiz on traditional Japanese theater, designed to test your understanding of the historical, aesthetic, and structural nuances between kabuki and nō. The quiz […]
When the future is uncertain, when it’s hard to imagine what lies ahead, when tomorrow struggles to find a place in our schedule, there’s only one solution left: set a goal, make a firm and final decision, and set a date… Goal: to improve my spoken and written French. Decision: Take online classes and go
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“An Invitation to Travel…” You immediately think of Charles Baudelaire, with his famous couplet: “There, all is order and beauty, luxury, calm, and pleasure.” Here’s another excerpt that inspires dreams: “I open my eyes The sea and the light burn deep into my body, but I love it. I breathe; I am free. Already, I’m
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Food, like many other aspects of daily life, lends itself to the use of a more informal, vivid, flexible, and fun language: slang. In the recipe—presented here in a humorous way—there are three such words: “bidoche,” “gnôle,” and “des plombes”; I’ll add the article’s title, “la bouffe.” "Bidoche": this refers to meat in general, whatever
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Alma and Alfred Hitchcock sent this rather cryptic message to a French-speaking friend, François Truffaut, who had just arrived in Beverly Hills in late 1973. This is, in fact, a coded message that you can decipher by carefully examining the alphabet right before your eyes…. Look closely… A letter is missing… And since it’s not
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