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I advice recommend to you an excellent French program for cinéphiles
Hi everybody. I continue my learning of English apprenticeship with through films (see my first note) ans and today I want to share two subjects with you: Mmy yesterday evening seance and a nice French program on internet website if you are a movie buff.
At first, yesterday in the evening I watched Ghostbusters and the English version permit to allowed me to understand a lot of new word tricks which don't exist in the French version. I wanna want to share one of them with you.
At the beginning of the film, Pete, Ray and Egon are in the library to see a ghost. Pete tries to speak with the ectoplasm but the ghost (an old librarian) says him, "Shhhhhh!" So Ray says he has a plan which is to GET HER! (he screams this). The ghost frightens them and they run away, fast, out of the library. A few minutes later Pete teases Ray about his nice plan to GET HER! I found the scene funnier in English than in French. Nearly the end of the film, Gozer appears and Ghostbusters note that she's a girl and Ray suggests to they speak with her. So Pete looks at Ray and says to him: Ray, get her? I found this link is funny ans and I'm sorry it doesn't exist in French.
Second point: One of the main cinema internet site in France is "Allociné.fr". On the site, you can find everything about all films (teaser, photos, etc...). There is also a video program called "Faux Raccord" in the video menu and this is the program I want to talk about.
The goal of this funny program (presentators are Michel & Michel) is to analyse scene by scene a film to find "jump cut"? In French a "Faux Raccord ( =Jump cut, I'm not sure with the translation) is a link problem between two scenes in the same film. For example if an actor have red shoes in a scene and blue shoes in the scene which is immediately next. The emission program also deals also with cameos (Stan Lee is the boss in that), time and weather contradictions or and camera reflections. So I advice recommend this program if you like cinema and if you want to see details who you didn't note at first watch the first time / on the first viewing and of course if you looks are looking for a French program lo learn my language. For help I give the link.
http://www.allocine.fr/video/programme-12284/
Have fun and thanks for advance for the correction of my noteWhat you describe as a "jump cut" is known as "continuity errors" which can be quite amusing once you have noticed them!
0 votedAugust 22, 20141Summer
This summer is almost over end. I went to beach many times last year but I didn't go to beach this year. I have the work part time with my dad. We are very busy this year. He has two big projects so that I have no time for breakfast. By the way, I will go to south (southern?) Taiwan at the end of August. I am very much looking forward to it.
You could also say "This summer is almost at an end" which sounds more formal.
Sometimes a region is referred to by it's direction, for example, people might say "East LA" but "southern France" or "the south of France". English speakers familiar with Taiwan can assist.
0 votedAugust 22, 20140- Le Film Lucy Ce soir je suis allé à la cinema pour le film "Lucy" avec mon ami. Il est similiar à le film "Limitless" mais je le trouve plus intéressant. Moitié du film est en Paris. Pour le exteriors, j'ai vu le Sorbonne et la Panthéon. Et bien sûr, le tour Eiffel est present aussi.August 3, 201410
Seasonal Work
For the last month, I have been working in corn fields with a few friends in the south of France. I do that to make money and to be able to be independant towards my parents.
Now I can say to my family :"without me, you don't have any pop corn!"
I expect to finish early(?) to have fun the rest of my holidays because when I come back from the field, I can only think of sleep so hard is the work ! Storms and hot temperature can't stop us!0 votedAugust 3, 20140A Note for Exercise #19 :
I think that I have to write something even if I have nothing special. It's like a duty when you really want to master a language. I think that describing someone I met recently is a good material. I met a guy at an event last week. He speaks English but doesn't speak Japanese. I asked him what he is doing here. He said he is running a small company and he has a few japanese employees. They buy used cars in Japan and sell them abroad mainly to Dubai or the U.S. I have heard that japanese used cars are very popular in Southeast Asian countries and there is a large market for used cars. But at the same time I have heard of stolen cars which will be sold abroad. I can't help but to suspect if he is engaged in such a suspicious job. But he tried to explain that I don't have to find the job suspicious. He showed me a picture of a place where 15,000 luxury cars are collected and shipped every week and he said there are lot of foreigners who are engaged in that business. That seemed to me completely mysterious, but I felt like asking more about him. He said he was born in Afganistan but his family moved to Dubai shortly after his birth. As his other family members were also working at the used car market, he also entered that world. While he was working with colleagues coming from all over the world, he tried to learn many languages. His spoke Farsi as mother tongue at home and he lerned English, HIndi, Arabic, and a little bit Chinese. His story fascinated me very much.
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