I would like to know what the beginning of this song says translated to English from French (I'm assuming it's French; at least that's what it sounds like to me). Also, if there's any relevant information you can give me about the French that would be great (e.g., "It's a quotation from..." or "Everyone in France knows that this means...").
Nicolaas Jaar - Etre (Single Link Vimeo).
posted by uncannyslacks
on Mar 10, 2013 -
8 answers
Teach me how to make
Cancoillotte cheese from things I can buy in an American supermarket or (unlikely) where to buy it for shipment to the USA (Nebraska).
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posted by jepler
on Jan 22, 2013 -
12 answers
There's a character in the 1955 movie "French Cancan" who wears a very fancy uniform. He wears a light blue double-breasted jacket with white braid and bright red pants with stripes on the sides. I think it is some kind of old fashioned military dress uniform. You can see the outfit
0.26 seconds into the trailer (warning:there are 26 seconds of cancan dancing first). My question is:
(1) What sort of uniform was this? Or is it just a costume they made up for the movie?
(2) Where/how could a modern person most affordably get a similar outfit of sufficiently good quality to wear around town at fancy occasions that are not Halloween?
posted by steinwald
on Jan 13, 2013 -
9 answers
I am looking for the lyrics for Jean Lou as sung by Gillian Hills and written by Charles Aznavour. I've looked all over google but am at a loss - please help!
posted by lasamana
on Nov 29, 2012 -
1 answer
Are you a francophone genderqueer person? What pronouns do you use? What language changes have you made?
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posted by blnkfrnk
on Oct 7, 2012 -
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Does anyone have experience jobhunting as an Anglophone in Montreal? Where should I be looking for English jobs, should I just forget finding one and learn French ASAP, and is this going to be as big a problem as I fear? Et aussi une grand plaque de fèves.
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posted by snorkmaiden
on Aug 3, 2012 -
8 answers
I was taught French through to Grade 10; however, have been far removed from it since then. I am too shy to try to converse in French with others; but would like to build the confidence to be able to. What are some good strategies for relearning a language and becoming more confident conversing in it at the same time?
posted by jamincan
on Jun 18, 2012 -
5 answers
I'm trying to find a French food website that I used to use a lot but seem to have lost. What details I remember are inside...
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posted by ninazer0
on May 24, 2012 -
3 answers
Question about French election 2012 slogan: Prendre le pouvoir! (Hollande) Does it mean We can take it? Or Take it, we can! ???
posted by sparkle55
on Apr 17, 2012 -
14 answers
I need help identifying a song I heard this afternoon. Difficulty: in French, and no Google luck.
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posted by dhens
on Jan 27, 2012 -
10 answers
I have to help my fifth grade daughters with their history fair project and they think I'm smart. Help!
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posted by daydreamer
on Nov 4, 2011 -
22 answers
Which French (I think) folk dance did I do as an elementary schooler in Indiana in the late 90s? (Details inside.)
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posted by naturalog
on Aug 28, 2011 -
6 answers
Heard a catchy as-all-get-out song on CJBC-FM
Espace musique early this afternoon. All I remember:
- In French
- Female singer
- Had kalimba/mbira featured pretty heavily
- Had "mercurochrome" and perhaps "petit pansement" in the lyrics.
Anyone able to ID it, please?
posted by scruss
on Jul 8, 2011 -
6 answers
I'd like to know who or whom first coined the term "red, white and blue" and if there was a purposeful differentiation from "blue, red and white" or any other combination thereof other than linguistic value.
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posted by jsavimbi
on May 25, 2011 -
17 answers
What should I know about french cultural conventions in the context of a job interview?
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posted by valdesm
on Apr 25, 2011 -
5 answers
Please help us with French translation for an engraving on a wedding ring! Details inside.
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posted by DeucesHigh
on Apr 17, 2011 -
6 answers
Can anyone recommend some good French podcasts? I'm not looking for language-learning programming, Just French language podcasts similar to
CBC's Spark on technology & culture,
The Moth-style personal stories, gaming a la GiantBomb's
Bombcast
, or NPR-style in-depth journalism.
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posted by Grimp0teuthis
on Apr 2, 2011 -
10 answers
[SongFilter] I want everything to do with this gorgeous, orphaned song. Unfortunately it's in French.
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posted by fix
on Mar 17, 2011 -
8 answers
My partner did not get into a French translation program. What courses should she do to prepare?
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posted by angusiguess
on Mar 15, 2011 -
3 answers
french language filter: name of song on france bleu perigord sun 13 march 5.40 am
I've posted a minute of the last bars here
http://writethinkplay.blogspot.com/
or if someone could translate for me into french that I was listening to the song on france bleu perigord at 5.40 am sunday 13 march, and would like to know the name of it. The song that played just after it was Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues. merci for any help
posted by sparkle55
on Mar 12, 2011 -
2 answers
Canadian English-French bilingualism filter: I suddenly (in 6 days) need to take a French language test that would help me in qualifying for a bilingual position in which I'm interested. Is there anything I could study in 6 days that would increase my chances of scoring higher?
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posted by analog
on Mar 8, 2011 -
14 answers
I'd like to add a Latin or French phrase meaning "from life" (i.e., short for "painted from life") to my signatures on paintings to differentiate my work from artists who rely on photos and video monitors instead of live models for their work. I'd like it to be pithy and idiomatic, and so I'm somewhat reluctant to rely on Google Translate . . .
posted by Toecutter
on Feb 6, 2011 -
17 answers
Does anyone know the name of a recent French movie( well maybe 2005) about three gangsters in Paris and a girl who gets involved with them...they ask her to video a heist for them then she becomes one of the gang. They go to Cannes, etc and have a gangsters holiday, then the big robbery they have planned goes wrong at the end (where she dresses as a high class prostitute in a blonde wig) but she ends up in a large apartment by the sea America with a piano full of bank notes
posted by sparkle55
on Feb 5, 2011 -
8 answers
Francophones, s'il vous plait, une jeune amie a besoin d'une traduction!
She wants "by any other name would smell as sweet" from Romeo and Juliet translated into French for a tat she's getting. The words will surround a rose. Her name is Juliet. My French is a bit rusty, I came up with par tout autre nom sentirait aussi bon. Any better suggestions?
posted by mareli
on Dec 23, 2010 -
10 answers
Have you ever read a story about three people who have died and are stuck in some sort of afterlife hotel room? My mom has been trying to find this book for the longest time. It's by a French author, and she read it in French. It's short, just about interactions between the people, who don't realize they're dead. Thanks!
posted by you're a kitty!
on Dec 19, 2010 -
6 answers
Trying to indentify a film I saw just 10 minutes of yesterday, before falling asleep (was on RTE2 in Dublin).
First scene was a tall blonde in a short dress talking to a short dark haired guy on a bridge over the Seine, about debts owed to a gangster ("30, 35....make it 50 thousand").
Cut to nightclub where the blonde makes 1000 euros a time taking 'gentlemen' to the bathrooms whilst the guy gets drunk at the bar. There was no sex... just scenes of the original guy getting progressively more and more drunk.
The film was relatively recent judging by the nightclub music - but in beautiful black and white... I'd love to see the movie in it's entirety. I checked RTE's website, but it only has listings for today onwards... I'm leaving Dublin this evening - and I cannot find a newspaper from yesterday.
posted by mattr
on Dec 9, 2010 -
5 answers
Please help me remember the name of this french singer I heard about on NPR in the past month.
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posted by AtomicBee
on Nov 11, 2010 -
32 answers
Help me maintain my (fluent) French and (slightly worse) Italian post-graduation in a foreign language-free job.
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posted by ellieBOA
on Oct 19, 2010 -
16 answers
French Movie Name. I just can't remember the name of that french movie, it's happens entirely in one night in all over Paris. There was a football (soccer) match, some guys were watching it on a TV in the street, the guy or someone near him broke it and they wanted to kill him and the movie went all insane going all over the place and all over Paris with people getting killed all over the place (for what I can remember).
posted by zouhair
on Sep 18, 2010 -
5 answers
My colleagues are working in animal science and are often using the term "loi de réponse de l'animal" to describe how biological parameters (e.g. milk production in dairy cows) change in response to a stimulus (e.g. modifying the diet). Potential English translations such as "animal response law(s)" do not seem correct. The concept seems pretty simple, so is there an obvious English translation that would cover this?
posted by elgilito
on May 14, 2010 -
13 answers
