French Chocolat

  OR GERMAN..., Si'l vous plait ....bitte...(new French/German lesson at bottom)

Are you a guy or abroad?

Shamelessly, Paris is my Passionate Past Time. It's a smooth euphoria like the creme whip hazelnut milk chocolate (or chocolat) That I so sensually enjoyed, during my whirlwind week and three days in France. A group of Wayne State University students including myself traveled to Perfect Paris and the surrounding areas. We globe trekked to Fabulous Fountainebleu, The Lovely Loire Valley,Vast Versailles and Classic Chartres, tasting the expensive wines, cheeses, peeled grapes and delightful deserts.

One evening, a handful of us girls went on an ice cream( la glace) hunt. Haagen-Daz is on every corner there, but we'd heard about a delectable dish of something special. We landed at the most heavenly little cold cream shop... where one small scoop cost 1,80 Euro! That's the equivalent to $2.50 here in the states. Nevertheless, the cool, creamy treasure was so worth the all night searching and the price.

We explored on foot and tour bus throughout the fun-filled French countryside and cool catacombs. We took scholastic notes as our petite, French, female guide took the twenty of us on an exclusive excursion. We visited historical monuments and were moved by the museums. The Louvre, was especially beautiful and serene. I had to keep pinching myself so I would know I wasn't dreaming. It housed long hallways with perfect portraits in every corner. Some of the bold brass frames where so humongous that they stretched all the way down the corridor and took up an entire wall from painted ceiling to waxed floor( about 80 feet). There was one painting of a gentleman in royal blue knickers and he had the most piercing dark eyes and I swear they were following me. It seemed so real, like some part of his spirit was there watching. . . waiting. So I ran away. I didn't go far, as a horror writer I was intrigued. They say if you take a picture of a old portrait and there is a bright shiny reflection in the development. It means that person's ghost was watching you. Cool!

I was especially thrilled that the French people were so wonderfully friendly. I realized it was because I looked French. France is the mixed country of the world where people of all shades and colors have hair of all different textures. I choose to wear mine naturally curly. So I appeared to be a native. French citizens would come up to me often and out of the blue start a conversation en Francis ( in French of course!) Thinking I was one of them. My native American and French heritage beamed through. It was wonderful speaking and responding with them in my ancestors native language. Sometimes, I would even say: Je suis American(e) (femform). "I'm American."

You already know some French, German, Spanish. . . .

In America we borrow words from every language. Based on that reasoning it should be fairly simple for the average person to acquire a love of languages and to learn. In college it's usually required that you take three semesters of a language. I took three semesters with Spanish, and moved on to French, which came easier for me. I had a personal tutor for German to impress an Austrian mate and was terribly surprised at how close to English it was. I don't claim to be fluent by any stretch of the imagination. However, there is a psychological theory behind learning....Which is:

If one can understand a concept enough to teach, one has learned it already. Broaden your minds. Let's start with what we already know: Allons-y! ( Go ahead).

FREAK-TASTIC FRENCH VERBS

VOULOIR - TO WANT

JE  VEUX                 VOUS VOULEZ

TU  VEUX                 NOUS VOULONS

IL ELLE, ON  VEUT      ILS,ELLES  VEULENT

JUMP INTO GERMAN VERBS

BELLEN- TO BARK (WIE UN HUND)  LIKE A DOG/WOLF

ICH BELLE

ER BELLT

SIE BELLEN

AND SOME GENERAL NOUNS

BETT DECKE      BED COVERING/ BLANKET

DUNKOPF         DUMMY

KOPFHANGER     PESSIMESTIC

DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES I WASN'T ABLE TO MOVE ONE

CYBER MUSCLE AND I MISSED ALL MY FASINATING FRENCH FANS, BUT I AM

BACK WITH MY SHOCK-TOBER FREAKTASTIC FRENCH AND JUMPING BEAN GERMAN LESSONS!!!

AVOIR AND RENDEZ-VOUS-AVEC FOR MORE FREAKY FUN!