Aimee's BLog

When you learn a language, especially at school, you study grammar rules and conjugations, you memorize sentences, and sometimes even lists of words.  But when speaking, you may feel that you can not express your ideas clearly.  We do not have enough words to say them or those we keep in mind are not useful for the context. For example, give an opinion on city traffic.  You know how to give your opinion, but you lack the proper vocabulary on this subject.  Imagine another situation that is less complicated and quite common.  After several hours of learning the French language, you want to explain one of your favorite recipes.  You have the verbs to enumerate the steps, but not the names of the ingredients.  Or, vice versa, you know the ingredients, but not the verbs.  So how can you enrich your vocabulary in a practical way, without necessarily creating and memorizing lists? Thanks to my experience as a French teacher, and also as a foreign language learner, I discovered some simp

Hello my little croissants.  Today we speak French, on the one hand because if we spoke Japanese you would understand nothing, and on the other hand because our language is beautiful.  As you will see, it is the language of joie de vivre and pleasure.  Anyway, the English, it just serves to make the words "marketing" or "commmunity manager", that is to say, things so boring that aside, even Louis the flea market it keeps awake. 1.  Dépaysement The change of scenery is changing the country, it is the strange feeling when you feel alien, disoriented, lost in something you do not know ... In other words, it includes a lot of concepts described in many languages but only the Frenchman put a word on it. 2.Crapotter Because the French man smokes the empty world and thinks of the end of the world, he invented this word to describe Sunday smokers who do not take their cancer very seriously and who simply take smoke in their mouths. inhale.  Which shows th

TRANSLATION TIPS Translation is certainly one of the most difficult language exercises.  It immediately reveals the translator's linguistic knowledge and literary sensitivity.  If the Italian proverb often put forward "traduttore, tradittore" (translator, traitor - translate, betray) will never be completely wrong by the simple fact that there is a change of language, a good translator will make a text will be appreciated in the same way in the language of departure and the language of arrival and that the two readers will know of the same history and revelation of the same sensitivity. GENERAL ADVICE The lexic To translate a text from one language into another, it is important to have a good knowledge of lexicon in both languages.  It is therefore important to read regularly in both languages ​​and to learn this lexicon.  Learning does not only mean translating one word into another  (house = house),  which is already a type of exercise, but also knowing

Today, who does not travel with his cell?  These small devices have become unavoidable, if only to allow us to listen to music and take pictures.  But since we have them in their hands, why not exploit them to the fullest and use their full potentials. Here is a small list of 9 of my favorite applications and I can not live without them, plus they are free. Skyscanner Available on  Android  As much on my laptop during my research, I use Skyscanner a lot.  It allows me to quickly know the best available rates and it also offers them in time, which is convenient if we are flexible in our travels. Hipmunk Available on  Android  This app is similar to Expedia and other aggregators of this world, but it offers a bit more.  It is possible to push the search for transport with the charters.  In addition, the search for accommodation is greatly expanded with access to AirBNB which greatly increases the possibilities. Currency converter Available on  Android   E