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One French Word A Day – Spring 2022

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Day 27 – cochon

The Learning French 100 Day Project – Friday, April 15, 2022

I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!

French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.

For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.

So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!

MOT DU JOUR

cochon (masculine noun) : pig

MES PHRASES RIDICULES

Le fermier élève des moutons et des cochons. (The farmer raises sheep and pigs.)
Vous pouvez décider mettre votre cochon d’Inde dans le jardin ou sur le balcon quand il fait beau, au printemps ou en été. (You can decide to put your guinea pig in the garden our on the balcony when the weather is nice, in spring or summer.)
Paul ne doit pas manger comme un cochon. (Paul should not eat like a pig.)

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Day 26 – pouvoir

The Learning French 100 Day Project – Thursday, April 14, 2022

I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!

French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.

For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.

So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!

MOT DU JOUR

pouvoir (auxiliary/impersonal/transitive verb) : to be able to

MES PHRASES RIDICULES

Paul pourrait nager s’il prenait des cours. (Paul could swim if he took lessons.)
La politique pourrait devenir l’art du possible. (Politics coud become the art of the possible.)
Paul pourrait l’acheter s’il n’était pas pauvre. (Paul could buy it if he was not poor.)

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Day 25 – chameau

The Learning French 100 Day Project – Wednesday, April 13, 2022

I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!

French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.

For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.

So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!

MOT DU JOUR

chameau chameaux (masculine noun) : camel

MES PHRASES RIDICULES

Il a traversé le désert à dos de chameau. (He rode through the desert on a camel.)
Paul monterait à dos de chameau s’il savait comment. (Paul would ride a camel if he know how.)
Claire et son chameau sont les meilleurs amis du monde. (Claire and her camel are the best of friends.)

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Day 24 – obtenir

The Learning French 100 Day Project – Tuesday, April 12, 2022

I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!

French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.

For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.

So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!

MOT DU JOUR

obtenir (transitive verb) : to get; to obtain

MES PHRASES RIDICULES

Le fils de Paul a obtenu un vélo pour Noël. (Paul’s son got a a bicycle for Christmas.)
Paul aimerait acheter une voiture s’il obtient une promotion. (Paul would like to buy a car if he gets a promotion.)
Claire avait besoin de ce travail, et elle l’a obtenu. (Claire needed this job, and she obtained it)

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Day 23 – mouton

The Learning French 100 Day Project – Monday, April 11, 2022

I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!

French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.

For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.

So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!

MOT DU JOUR

mouton (masculine noun) : sheep; sheepskin; mutton

MES PHRASES RIDICULES

J’ai toujours été le mouton noir de ma famille. (I have always been the black sheep of the family.)
Claire a vu un troupeau de moutons hier. (Claire saw a flock of sheep yesterday.)
Paul était éleveur de moutons avant de venir à Paris. (Paul was a sheep farmer before coming to Paris.)

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Day 22 – attendre

The Learning French 100 Day Project – Sunday, April 10, 2022

I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!

French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.

For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.

So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!

MOT DU JOUR

attendre (transitive and intransitive verb) : to wait; to wait for something

MES PHRASES RIDICULES

Le train est en retard. Je l’attends. (The train is late. I wait for it. )
Il attendrait le train s’il était en retard. (He would wait for the train if it was late.)
Claire attendrait Paul s’il lui téléphonait. (Claire would wait for Paul if he called her.)
Claire aurait attendu Paul s’il lui avait téléphoné. (Claire would have waited for Paul if he had called her.)

A Picture And A Verse - 100 Day Project

A Picture and a Verse – Spring 2022

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Day 17, 18, 19 – Tuesday, April 5th thru Thursday, April 7th

We sing to you, Mighty Zeus,
At your touch, the pillars of our temple crumble.
You cleave the forests in two and shatter the black thundering skies.

Our every action is weighed upon Themis’ golden scales.
Our every desire—
whether we were blinded by ambition,
or moved to pity,
is unearthed.

Every thought-grain is measured.

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my fourth, 100 Day Project on March 20th, 2022. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything (or nothing at all) and to post a photograph that I took this spring.

Enjoy!

A Picture And A Verse - 100 Day Project

A Picture and a Verse – Spring 2022

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Day 16 – Monday, April 4th

So must one travel,
A trail upon the pebbles and sand,
Hidden in shadows of high, desolate cliffs,
The jagged rock eras old, wise and unforgiving,
Sparing not a single man’s life out of pity–
Pebbles and sand, and a gusty squall–
My cheeks flushed with salt and air,
My eyes blinded, far-seeing, pierce the far horizon
and plumb the piled fathoms
and all their deep mysteries.

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project

The 100 Day Project is a creativity excavation. It’s about unearthing dormant or unrealized creativity by committing to a daily practice everyday for 100 days.
Creativity is a skill. The more we practice, the more skilled we become. Practice takes time. Practice takes commitment. Practice is a radical act in this speeded up world. Through practice, we develop a creative habit. Through habit, we reconnect with and know ourselves again as a creative being.

I started this, my fourth, 100 Day Project on March 20th, 2022. My project is to write at least one first-draft stanza inspired by a poem, a quote, an idea, a painting—anything (or nothing at all) and to post a photograph that I took this spring.

Enjoy!

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One French Word A Day – Spring 2022

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Day 21 – besoin

The Learning French 100 Day Project – Saturday, April 9, 2022

I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!

French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.

For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.

So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!

MOT DU JOUR

besoin (masculine noun) : need

MES PHRASES RIDICULES

J’ai besoin de manger. (I need to eat.)
Claire a besoin d’y réfléchir. (Claire needs to think about it.)
Depuis qu’il a perdu son travail, il est dans le besoin. (Since he has lost his job, he is in need.)

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Day 20 – hurler

The Learning French 100 Day Project – Friday, April 8, 2022

I’ve been studying French on and off for about a year. My interest in the language began when I started reading classical French novels by Balzac, Dumas, Flaubert, Stendhal, and others. I’m also a budding armchair historian of the French Revolution. In 2018/19, I spent Christmas and the New Year in Paris. Bonne Année !!

French is a beautiful, musical, romantic language, … and I’m keen on learning it.

For the next 100 days (all of Spring 2022), I’ll focus daily on a French word and use it in sentences. The results of my efforts will surely be hilarious, peppered with errors, and unequivocally bad French … but you gotta have the freedom to fail.

So, without further ado … let’s learn French! Allons-y!

MOT DU JOUR

hurler (intransitive verb) : to yell

MES PHRASES RIDICULES

Cesse de hurler, je n’entends plus rien ! (Stop yelling, I can’t hear anything!)
Arrête de hurler ! (Stop screaming!)
Elle hurlait sa douleur d’avoir perdu son père. (She screamed in pain at having lost her father.)