Ohh la la! Pour m'amuser, j'ecoute l'Europe 1!

De temps en temps, je tourne a la radio française a fin de m’amuser. Selon moi, elle est drôle. J’adore les accents français et la musique si heureuse. Je viens d’écouter la musique de Hawaii Five-O ce matin ! Et son rire ! Vous savez ce que je parle, le rire fameux de Maurice Chevalier. Il me fait rire toujours et me fait souvenir de mes étudiants de français qui me faisaient rire avec ses bêtises.

Et en plus, ce que je remarque, c’est que les français emploient souvent la phrase « J’imagine… ». Ca, c’est ma devise. Je chant tout le longue de la journée, « J’imagine…et tout est possible. »

From time to time, I turn to French radio to amuse myself. In my opinion, it is funny. I love those French accents and their happy, happy music. I think I just heard the theme song from Hawaii Five-O this morning. Oh, and that LAUGH! You know the one; the Maurice Chevalier laugh. It cracks me up every time and reminds me of my former French students who used to make me laugh with their impersonations.

Besides that, I’ve noticed that the French often use the phrase “I imagine…” That’s my motto! All day long, I repeat to myself, “I imagine…and everything is possible.”

Oh, if you want a real hoot, try putting this small excerpt through an online language translator. I promise it will come out something like those “English” Tee-shirts one finds in Japan. My sister sent one years ago and I wear it with pride. Not to mention I get a giggle from the puzzled, confused looks on people’s faces as they try to understand:

I’LL STICKY ABOUT MY FAVORITE THINGS

INDIVIDUALITY

I’D LIKE TO BE FAMILIAR WITH FASHIONS,

BUT I WON’T BE CARRIED BY THEM

THOSE WHO ARE STICKY ABOUT THEIR WAY OF LIFE

ARE NEVERTHE-LESS WONDERFUL!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. I LOVE IT! It cracks me up every time! Believe me, I’ve had my fair share of “gaffes” or “faux pas”. I have stuck my foot right in my mouth plenty of times in other languages…and I lived to tell about it, though I was pretty sure at the moment that I would die of embarrassment. One thing I’ve learned in my attempts at language acquisition is you will make colossal mistakes, but if you can laugh at your miserable blunders, you’ll have great stories to tell another day!