Today's work adventures: a self taught crash course in Haitian Creole*

*based entirely on my 8yr old rusty ass knowledge of European French grammar and Acadian French-Chiac pronunciations

I believe Theo not only can speak french, but is even MORE fluent in reading french than english. The Doctors may have talked to him in both languages but I bet most of their books and notes were in french and Theo got used to only reading in this language

This is not really an ask, more a comment, really. Just to say how much I enjoy your blog - it's one of my favourite reads of the week. My daughter first found your blog, and because I'm a translator (although not of French) and an artist, she sent me the link. So you may be pleased to know that you have cross-generational appeal. I'm amazed and in awe of the number of languages you know, and of course totally in love with your animals. Thank you for brightening a world that sorely needs it.

Thank you! It always makes me smile when someone tells me they've mentioned my blog or my animals to their mum / partner / friend... And I love that you came for the translation and stayed for the llamas.

Everyone sends their regards!

I’ve been meaning to post these two pics together because Pirlouit and Pampelune are doing the same bicycle handlebar thing with their ears. I wish I could get everyone to do it at the same time like a national synchronised earflopping team.

looked for the italian translation of captive prince because i want to practice more + get prettier covers but the the italian covers are even worse than the english ones i can’t have anything

What is a BD

BD = Bande Dessinée, the French word for “comics”. Generally when used in a language other than French it means comics originating in French (the language). Similar to how people say “manga” instead of “Japanese comics” or “fumetti” instead of “Italian comics.” Generally the grouping is useful as comics that share a language of origin are more likely to reference each other and share a cultural background (even when they’re from multiple countries).

You may also see “Franco-Belgian comics” used instead of BD, but this excludes French Swiss and French Canadian comics as well as any other French language comics.

so i did watch jocks in jills as per my usual monday routine

my dad texting me: ben weer thuis me, head full of new language: dónde estabas

i’m gonna blow my brothers up with my brain

oh so everyone is lying about the movie d.e.b.s. huh. Its not bad in a good way. its not camp. its just annoying.

i guess what i really hate about the duolingo update is that if i want to study a particular topic, like future tense or whatever, i can’t do that. the new units are literally just the entire course in one single thing and it’s a different selection every time. which is good because you get a more complete experience with the language (instead of having One unit on One grammatical structure and then moving right along) but like i said. sometimes i like to go back and review a specific topic i can’t do that

Heute ich habe gegessen eine Schokolade der Morgen, Mittagessen war mcdonald’s medium Pommes da mein Lehrer ist gegangen dort und ich und meine Mitschülerin geteilt, und das Abendessen war eingefroren Pommes und vegetarier Nuggets, da ich versuche mein Fleisch Verbrauch reduzieren. Ich zudem habe zwei Brot Stücken gegessen und ein Ice Tea getrinken.

so fucking sick at how the french government is killing our administration and public services by making them unsustainable so that people complain and they have an excuse to get completely rid of them

Truly I had forgotten until rewatching Foxy Lady how little of it is, in fact, about the foxy lady in question. Yes technically this is a boys(gn)-go-stupid-over-a-girl episode but only in the sense that there is a girl there and they would likely not have gone stupid if she were not there. 

She turns up at Hutch’s place in the middle of the night in a low-cut wrap dress batting her eyes and he flirts with her in thee lightest most superficial way either of them have ever flirted with a woman and then trips over himself hastening to establish that he did NOT mean they should go to bed together when he offered her his bed. 

She comes out in a towel and Starsky gets mad thinking that Hutch was planning to sleep with her - one can only assume bc the terms of their open relationship at this point dictate that the other has to know about it prior to the fact, because it very clearly has nothing at all to do with her - and Hutch again trips over himself attempting to reassure Starsky that it wasn’t like that. 

Starsky, not fully believing him (and also pissed off about the whole unbelievably petty bathroom thing. what was up with that) takes her home, VERY POINTEDLY SLEEPS ON THE COUCH, and then tells Hutch, who seems utterly unsurprised to find him on the couch, that it 'made them even’. Even for what, huh. ‘Cause both of you very blatantly did not even try to get the girl. You really just wanted to give Hutch the same five minutes of betrayed jealousy and you apparently succeeded. 

And then the episode ends with them alone facing each other covered in women’s underwear. I’d say you can’t make this shit up but the S&H writers very much did

With the language speaking poll, it varies from country (and state/county in the US)

In my area you're required 2 years of a language course

Most kids take it but do the bare minimum or just don't remember it. Usually you grow up knowing that language/being taught it young. Sometimes we learn jt in school and remember enough to keep taking to learn and remember. We usually offer use it or lose it languages, which most kids don't use it and then they lose it and then no one speaks other languages

Huh! That makes sense, actually, i feel like 2 years is not nearly enough to retain enough knowledge, and not even enough to learn a lot. I think when i started studying italian in 4th grade, we didn't even get to subjunctives by the time i was 8th grade, and subjunctives are a surprisingly common form. At least to the way I speak. And even among those who took the elective third language, i know a lot of folks who don't remember a thing about it, i'm assuming because even four years of a once-per-week class isn't enough for retention.

Well, it's sad, at least to me who is linguistically inclined. Quot linguas calles tot homines vales is something i take personally lololol but right! I guess it's the sort of inertion that happens to speakers of a lingua franca, there's no "need" to learn a foreign language, so even those who are talented for languages might never find out :/

Well, I hope thanks to globalisation, at least those who like foreign languages can find ways to learn even outside of formal schooling :>

I THINK I DID OK ON MY FRENCH EXAM???????? HOURRA!!!!

So I just started watching s2e1 of warrior nun and I can’t lol. Like where the fuck in Switzerland are they supposed to be? With like half the poeple speaking English, the other speaking German but the place looks like it’s in the Italian part of the country?