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Retournant à la maison cet après-midi, j’ai décidé que ce serait une bonne idée d’écrire une entrée de blog chaque jour, alternant le français et l’allemand. Il y a deux raisons pour cela:

1. J’aime écrire. J’aime m’exprimer, partager mes pensées et mes expériences. Mais je trouve que, souvent, quand j’écris, il est très facile pour moi de devenir trop émotif. Ce n’est pas idéal. Parfois, cela aggrave la situation. Quand j’écris en français, je ne peux pas être aussi expressif que quand j’écris en anglais. C’est probablement parce que je ne parle pas encore assez couramment en français. En écrivant en français, je peux dire ce que je veux dire, sans me perdre dans une tempête de sentiments.

2. Je ne suis pas satisfait des progrès que je fais en classe de français le samedi. J’ai appris le français depuis plus de 2 ans, mais je ne parle toujours pas couramment français. Et allemand, c’est pire! J’espère qu’en écrivant en français et en allemand, je parlerai plus couramment au fil du temps.

Je commence ce soir, et j’écrirai quand je ne suis pas trop occupé.

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Disclaimer: I’ve been learning French at Alliançe Française for more than two years now, but that by no means makes me a fluent speaker. You should thus take the following content with a grain of salt. I’m doing this as much to teach myself as to teach others. If in doubt, consult a native speaker.

Today’s phrases were taken from a report in Le Monde, Les deux Yéménites arrêtés à l’aéroport d’Amsterdam remis en liberté. I won’t be giving sample sentences since you’re probably better off just reading them off the article.

En provenance de – Originating in / Coming from

(Le) complot terroriste – Terrorist plot

Etre remis en liberté – To be released

L’activité répréhensible – Nefarious activity

Etre soupçonné de – To be suspected of

Sur la foi d’informations – On the basis of information

Mettre en garde contre toute conclusion hâtive – To warn against any hasty conclusions.

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The new academic year starts officially tomorrow. The idea hasn’t really sunk in yet, that after tomorrow i’m going to be occupied again, going to be busy again, going to be pulling late nights again, over books and tutorials and assignments half-completed.

I’ve had a fairly productive summer. Holidays aren’t usually productive for me. I start them with all these goals in mind, ideas about things i want to do, but i hardly ever follow through with them. This summer, this holiday, i actually did something. I actually fulfilled many of the goals i had set for myself, even if not all of them.

I’m not sure how i feel about summer finally coming to an end.

Discovered this really amazing folk/electronica (folktronica?) artist from Argentina, named Juana Molina. Got two of her albums. Here’s the track that caught my attention, called Un Día (One Day):

And the lyrics:

Un día voy a ser otra distinta,
voy a hacer cosas que no hice jamás.
No va a importarme lo que otros me digan
ni va a importarme si resultará.
Voy a viajar, voy a bailar, bailar, bailar, ¡quiero bailar!
Voy a vivir en el medio del campo y a las mañanas me vo(y) a levantar
para ordenar (me va a costar). Me gustará. ¿Cuándo será?

Un día voy a hacer todo distinto,
voy a arreglar la ventana de atrás.
Voy a cantar las canciones sin letra
y cada uno podrá imaginar
si hablo de amor o desilusión,
banalidades o sobre Platón.
Si hablo de vos o de color,
si hablo de música, nuestra pasión.

Un día voy a ser otra distinta
voy a hacer cosas que no hice jamás.
Voy a cantar las canciones sin letra
y cada uno podrá imaginar.
Voy a viajar, vagar…

Very roughly, it means in Argentinian Spanish, “One day i will be some one different / do things i never did before / it will not matter what others tell me / and i will not care whatever happens.”

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