Tuesday, 28 June 2011

Une autre façon de penser/ Another way to think

When you speak different languages you realize that you don't express things in the same way in those languages. 
This is a reason why you can't translate literally, word by word, from your language to another one.
Let's see some examples:

- In English you say: "I am hungry", "I am cold", "I am 14".
  In French you say: "J'ai faim", "j'ai froid" et "j'ai 14 ans" (literally "I have hunger", "I have cold" and "I have 14 years"; and you actually don't say that in English).




- In English you say "I miss you".
  In French you say "Tu me manques" (literally "You are missing to me").


- In English you say "I am bored".
  In French you say "Je m'ennuie". (If you translate literally from English, "je suis ennuyé(e)" actually means "I am embarassed".)


Monday, 16 May 2011

Le festival de Cannes/ The Cannes film festival

                                                       


The Cannes film Festival, founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious film festivals. The private festival is held annually (usually in May) at the Palais des festivals et des congrès, in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of France.




 Jude Law and Uma Thurman are among the eight-member jury ofthis year's Cannes Film Festival.