Coming soon: a post about my recent trip to Switzerland. Full of adventure and castles. However, until I get the photos uploaded I will entertain you with my newly acquired French speaking skills.
(Disclaimer: all French words given here will be spelled as I would pronounce them as I learned all my French orally. Sorry Charles!)
1. Je mirret en cafe sivouplais (I would like a coffee please)
2. Je mirret leau non gaseous sivouplais (I would like water without gas please)
3. Je mirret en carte sivouplais (I would like a menu please)
4. Je mirret .... (you get the idea)
5. Eu son le toilet? (where are the toilets?)
6. Serva? (How are you?)
7. Serva bien (I'm good)
8. Banan (banana)
9. Tomat (tomato)
10. Dorian (your welcome)
11. Merci (thank you, but that's easy, everyone knows that)
And now we come to the completion of my French knowledge (except for French words that are commonly used in English like "armoir", but I'll save that for another post) I hope this has been educational for all my readers and I am sincerely sorry to anyone reading this who actually knows French :)
Friday, February 26, 2010
Monday, February 1, 2010
The advice of Jane Austen
For Christmas my mom got me a book of advice about various subjects collecedt from quotes in Jane Austen novels. It's called Jane Austen's Little Advice Book. It is broken into several sections like "Men and Women" or "Family". In each section are quotes taken from Jane Austen novels that pertain to that subject. So, I like to open the book to a random page and get my advice for the day. Here's today's:
On the Joys of Aunthood as Opposed to Motherhood
I shall be very well off with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about. There will be enough of them, in all probability, to supply every sort of sensation that declining life can need. Thre will be enough for every hope and every fear; and though my attachment to none can equal that of a parent, it suits my ideas of comfort better than what is warmer and blinder. My nephews and nieces! I shall often have a niece with me.
Emma
Oh, Jane, you are so wise!
On the Joys of Aunthood as Opposed to Motherhood
I shall be very well off with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about. There will be enough of them, in all probability, to supply every sort of sensation that declining life can need. Thre will be enough for every hope and every fear; and though my attachment to none can equal that of a parent, it suits my ideas of comfort better than what is warmer and blinder. My nephews and nieces! I shall often have a niece with me.
Emma
Oh, Jane, you are so wise!
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