The English translation would be ball-and-stick or cup-and-ball and it refers to a traditional toy composed of a ball with a hole attached to a stick, which aims to make the stick enter the ball with the movement of the hand and the arm. The sexual reference is evident, and from th...
I usually don’t participate to WIT Month (Women In Translation) but this year I’ll share about three novellas written by French women authors. Only the first one,The Braid, has been translated into English, the other two are available in French or in other translations than English. Let...
Malade English Translation – Alice on the Roof French Music We translated the song Malade by Belgian singer, Alice on the Roof, from French to English. All the translated lyrics are here with the Malade audio. Explore France Learn French ...
TranslationLong live France! Registernormal Pronunciation[veev la fra(n)s] IPA[viv la frɑ̃s] Meaning and usage You probably won’t hear the patriotic exclamationVive la France !more than a few times a year; it tends to be reserved for occasions likeBastille Day,French elections, internat...
Days of the week are always masculine in French. You will very often find them following the masculine article “le”, which corresponds to “the”. “Un” is also the translation for the singular “a” and will be common.Do you capitalize days of the week in French?No, they never ...
Two famousputain’s are sports announcer Thierry Roland’s livereactionin the moments after the French team won the 1998 World Cup:Quel pied, putain!(Holy fuck, that was amazing!) and actor Jean Dujardin’s cheekily and sincerely including it in his Oscar acceptancespeech:Oh putain, genial, ...
(where most jobs in his field are located). Translation: ride the metro, work, and sleep. The life of many Parisians. While we may joke that the French work short hours and get tons of vacation, the truth is that yes, public workers have cushy jobs, but your typical French business...
Maybe something got lost in translation. Maybe things just don’t taste as good when I’m the one doing the cooking. But I couldn’t resist tweaking it; I wanted it more intensely chocolaty and decadent. So I made it again, with a darker chocolate and a smidge less flour. And I ...
The Expanding Imagination of Mainstream French Films and Television Series Mary Harrod and Raphaëlle Moine As we write this introduction in December 2022, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup in Qatar is the subject of fierce disapproval, and victim...
I’ve found two different editions: one translation by Stephanie Smee (who also translated The Godmother which I highly recommend) published by Mountain Leopard Press, which seems fitting for this book and another one by Jeffrey Zuckerman published by The Overlook Press. That must be a question ...