Music Post #1, Some Great French Music (that Jehane will understand!) Part 1

[motherendurance]

Part 1

My darling bb, Jehane, requested music with words she could understand, so French it is today!

Comments

[jehane_writes]

Mon dieu, ceci était étonnant! (excellent,envoutant...)

Et ici je vais te faire le rire avec ma Français de lycée (et de crap, ahaha):

Mes professeurs français nous ont présentés aux chansons de Jacques Brel et cetera, que j'ai aimées, mais nous avons dû analyser ses textes de chanson d'une “manière littéraire”; ainsi nous n'avons jamais obtenu d'entendre les chansons françaises ou les chanteurs qui serait “cool”, comme Zazie.

(Et j'ai développé une crainte irrationnelle des outfits du 70s Euro-geek, ha ha.)

Christophe est l’Euro-geek quintessenciel, mais sa voix est magnifique, et quand je l'ai entendue, mes cheveux tenus sur l'extrémité (?!). Sa “Jacques a dit” était tellement trompeusement simple, et lyriquement belle - quelle chanson sublime!

Les vids de Zazie s’étaient si chaudes (?) et stupéfiers, particulièrement de “Un Point C’est Toi” (le baiser à l'extrémité encore plus chaude!), et la chanson était si drôle et intelligent - “Mets-toi tout nu, si t'es un hooommmmme”- je conviens *totalement

[motherendurance]

Your Franglish is EXCELLENT! I am very impressed! I am however, switching to English, as you are not the only one sweating

[motherendurance]

Oh, and I understand many dialects of British English too!

[jehane_writes]

Phew, ne peux parler/ecrire plus.

Yeah, I can only do slow, written down or both, these days. I've retained some written ability, but my vocab is in the toilet these days and I know I made a zillion accent misplacements and tense mistakes above, and I just can't converse any more (although my accent is still good, which just encourages people to launch into an only marginally comprehensible torrent of French).

My Mandarin is only marginally better than my French (and unlike French I can't write it any more!). I can order from restaurants/swear in a couple of Chinese dialects and Malay. I wish I could read Latin, because it sounds so beautiful and cultured, but sadly I only know legal terminology therein ;) I make up for effective monolingualism by deploying English in a terminally British accent, naturally.

You sound like you have a great ear - Mandarin is very difficult to understand, and I had real problems with it at school - so if you can even marginally get the pinyin it is most impressive!