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[Replay] FYW 007 : Date, Month, Year, Seasons…and French Poetry

07.31.2019 - By Jessica: Native French teacher, founder of French Your WayPlay

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How to tell the date in French: a bit of French grammar and a poetic bonus as I’ll be reading a famous poem by Verlaine for you: "Chanson d’Automne"...

Vocabulary and Spelling of the French Words mentioned in this episode

Le 30 mars, le 4 avril, le 7 mai, le 1er (premier) septembre

le (+ date) = le 1er janvier, le 2 avril, le 9 septembre

le 1er janvier, le 2 janvier, le 3 janvier, etc

en (+ month) = en mars, en novembre

SEPTembre, OCTobre, NOVembre, DECembre = sept (7), huit (8), neuf (9), dix (10)

en (+ year) = en 1920, en 2015

une saison = a season

le printemps, l’été (nm), l’automne (nm), l’hiver (nm)

en été, en automne, en hiver (= in summer, in fall, in winter)

au printemps (= in spring)

LINKS and RESOURCES

“Chanson d’Automne” (Paul Verlaine, Poèmes saturniens)

Les sanglots longs - The long sobs

Des violons - Of the violins

De l’automne - Of Autumn

Blessent mon cœur - Wound my heart

D’une langueur - With a monotonous

Monotone. - Languor.

Tout suffocant - All choked

Et blême, quand - And pale, when

Sonne l'heure, - The hour chimes,

Je me souviens - I remember

Des jours anciens - Days of old

Et je pleure - And I cry

Et je m'en vais - And I'm going

Au vent mauvais - On an ill wind

Qui m'emporte - That carries me

Deçà, delà, - Here and there,

Pareil à la - As if a

Feuille morte. - Dead leaf.

Read more French poems about the seasons:

http://www.poesie-francaise.fr/poemes-saisons/

http://www.historel.net/poesies/poesie10.htm

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