mercredi 6 avril 2016

A propos de Le Petit Prince

Le Petit Prince d'Antoine de Saint-Exupéry was and remains a classic of 20th century literature.  Maria Popova at Brain Pickings is a writer and MIT Fellow who writes about beautiful things that strike her fancy, such as Le Petit Prince and other works.

Today is the anniversary of the publishing of Le Petit Prince, and Popova wrote an interesting article back in 2014 commemorating this event. She discusses Saint-Exupéry and his watercolors, among other things. Her articles are always enlightening and fun to read.  

Popova discusses in another article the impact this book had on author and illustrator Peter Sis. Sis wrote his own book about Le Petit Prince, complete with his own illustrations inspired by those of Saint-Exupéry.

I hope that you enjoy these articles, and perhaps they will provide some insight into this magical story.





mercredi 30 mars 2016

The 10 Coolest Jobs for World Language Speakers

Salut mes enfants! J'espère que vous avez passé de bonnes vacances de Pâques. 

One of my friends sent me this awesome article about the ten "coolest" jobs you can get if you know a world language (the article says foreign language, but that's too English-centric for me).  Read this article - it's really neat! Below are some of the benefits of learning French, in addition to some of the fields you can go into if you learn a world language other than English.




So even if you hate to conjugate verbs, remember! - it will help you in the long run!

mardi 22 mars 2016

Attentats à Bruxelles

Earlier today, around 8 am local time in Brussels, several bombs were detonated at the Brussels Airport and in at least one metro station.  According to early reports, 15 people died in the metro explosions and 11 people died at the airport.  The entire country of Belgium is under a Level 4 terror alert.




lundi 21 mars 2016

Adding hyperlinks to your blog posts

Salut mes enfants!  There is a simple way to add links to your blog posts that looks nice and doesn't involve copying and pasting an entire link from a blog post into a browser.

First, type out a few words in the body of your post and highlight them. These will be the words you use to create a hyperlink.  It will look like this:

Next, go to the website you want to link to and copy the URL from the browser.
After that, go back to your blog post and hit the Link button at the top:


A box will pop up that looks like this:

The highlighted text should be in the "Text to display" box.  Copy and paste the URL into the "Web address box".  Et voilà! You now have a gorgeous hyperlink that will look something like this:


Please let me know if you have any trouble with this.  I prefer this in lieu of copying and pasting; I think it's easier and looks nicer.

Allons-y!


The tenth Doctor thinks this is a good idea.





lundi 14 mars 2016

Les homophones les plus difficiles en français

SALUT MES PETITS ENFANTS MIGNONS. J'ai trouvé cet interro impossible sur Buzzfeed - je l'ai raté.  :-(  Passez-le et dites-moi si vous achevez un résultat plus que 50%.  Bonne chance!




via GIPHY