Children's Word of the Day- Rock

Kids, when you pick up a rock, say "une pierre"

Interesting Word - Coucou

An interesting word came up the other day. The message to me started off "Coucou Roy!" I had never heard that expression before so i looked it up. It seems it's a way of starting E-mails to friends as a way of saying "Hi there!" or "Hi, I'm back" to a friend. It's also a way of calling attention to someone (example: someone who may be across the street & you are trying to get their attention. You woud shout "Coucou Pierre!"). Coucou can also mean "Peek-a Boo"

Now in English if you called someone a Cuckoo, it would mean you are saying they are crazy :)

Coucou (koo koo)

Anyone who knows more about this word let us know. 

à plus tard-Roy

Quick Phrase of the Day -I Am Making Some Bread Later

Je fais du pain plus tard (zhuh fay doo pahn ploo tahr) -I am making some bread later

Repeat this phrase all day long till you know it by heart.

Vocabulary word of the day:

tapette à mouches (tah peht ah moosh) -fly swatter

Je cherche une tapette à mouches (zhuh shehrsh oon tah peht ah moosh) -I'm looking for a fly swatter

Children's Word of the Day -Apron

Kids, when you see someone wearing an apron, say, "un tablier"

Children's Word of the Day - Baby Bottle

Kids, when you see a baby bottle, point to it and say, "un biberon"

Children's Word of the Day - Toy Store

Kids, when you go in a toy store, say "un magasin de jouets"

Children's Word of the Day -Brook

Kids, when you see a brook or a stream, say "un ruisseau"

Quick Phrase of the Day - He Drank A Whole Bottle of Wine

il a bu une bouteille entière de vin (eel ah boo oon boo tay ahn tee ehr deh vahn) -He drank a whole bottle of wine.

Repeat this phrase all day long till you know it by heart.

Vocabulary word of the day:

bas (bah) -bottom

il est en bas de ma liste (eel eht ahn bah deh mah leest) -It's at the bottom of my list 

Fantômas

Thomas Langmann's La Petite Reine is fast-tracking Fantomas, a big-screen makeover of the French fantasy detective novels, Variety reported. . Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf) is writing the screenplay with David Martinez from an original story by Langmann. Gans also will direct. The 43 Fantomas novels, written by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre and first published in 1911, follow Fantomas, an ingenious but amoral master of disguise and sadistic killer. The literary franchise is also a Gallic national crime-fiction treasure, having yielded multiple big- and small-screen and comic-book adaptations.

Influenced by The Dark Knight, Gans' adaptation sees Fantomas facing off with a villain of equal or even more dastardly dimensions. The movie will shoot in French and English, and begin casting shortly.

Fantômas is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1970) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914).

One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared in a total of 32 volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent 11 volumes written by Allain alone after Souvestre's death. The character was also the basis of various film, television, and comic book adaptations. His importance in the history of crime fiction cannot be overestimated, as he represents a transition from Gothic novel villains of the 1800s, to modern-day serial killers.

Fantômas has no qualms about murder and is shown as a sociopath who enjoys killing in a sadistic fashion.

He is totally ruthless, gives no mercy, and is loyal to none, not even his own children. He is a master of disguise, always appearing under an assumed identity, often that of a person whom he has murdered. Fantômas makes use of bizarre and improbable techniques in his crimes, such as plague-infested rats, giant snakes, and rooms that fill with sand.

Children's Word of the Day - Jump Rope

Kids, when you use a jump rope, say "corde à sauter"

Quick Phrase of the Day -The Storage Unit Is In The Basement

L'unité de stockage est au sous-sol (loo nee tay deh stah kehzh eht oh soo sole) -The storage unit is in the basement

Repeat this phrase all day long til you know it by heart.

Vocabulary word of the day:

le sous-sol (leh soo sole) -the basement

Children's Word of the Day - Merry-Go-Round

Kids, when you go on a merry-go-round, say "un manège"

Wuthering Heights Selling More In France Because Of...

Vampires!

Wuthering Heights is enjoying an unexpected renaissance in France after Stephenie Meyer fans picked up on repeated references to the novel in Eclipse, the third volume in the bestselling Twilight saga.

At one point during Eclipse, Meyer's heroine Bella quotes Cathy speaking about Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, saying of her vampire lover Edward that "if all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger". Bella is torn between her feelings for Edward and her friend Jacob, a werewolf, much as Cathy is torn between Edgar and Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's classic.

"Sales went up 50% last year and since the start of 2009 they have continued to rise," said a spokeswoman for the book's French publisher Le Livre de Poche. She added that French bookshops have been selling Wuthering Heights alongside Meyer's Eclipse, which has helped to drive sales.

Children's Word of the Day - Raindrop

Kids, when it's raining outside, say "une goutte de pluie"

French Champagne

Prestige cuvée

A cuvée de prestige is a proprietary blended wine (usually a Champagne) that is considered to be the top of a producer's range. Famous examples include Louis Roederer's Cristal, Laurent-Perrier's Grand Siècle, Moët & Chandon's Dom Pérignon, and Pol Roger's Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill. The original prestige cuvée was Moët & Chandon's Dom Pérignon, launched in 1936 with the 1921 vintage. Until then, Champagne houses produced different cuvées of varying quality, but a top-of-the-range wine produced to the highest standards (and priced accordingly) was a new idea. In fact, Louis Roederer had been producing Cristal since 1876, but this was strictly for the private consumption of the Russian tsar. Cristal was made publicly available with the 1945 vintage. Then came Taittinger's Comtes de Champagne (first vintage 1952), and Laurent-Perrier's Grand Siècle 'La Cuvée' in 1960, a blend of three vintages (1952, 1953, and 1955). In the last three decades of the twentieth century, most Champagne houses followed these with their own prestige cuvées, often named after notable people with a link to that producer (Veuve Clicquot's La Grande Dame, the nickname of the widow of the house's founder's son; Pol Roger's Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill, named for the British prime minister; and Laurent-Perrier's Cuvée Alexandra rosé, to name just three examples), and presented in non-standard bottle shapes (following Dom Pérignon's lead with its eighteenth-century revival design).

Blanc de noirs

A French term (literally "white of blacks") for a white wine produced entirely from black grapes. It is often encountered in Champagne, where a number of houses have followed the lead of Bollinger's prestige cuvée Vieilles Vignes Françaises in introducing a cuvée made from either Pinot Noir, Pinot Meunier or a blend of the two (these being the only two black grapes permitted within the Champagne AOC appellation). Although Bollinger's wine is famed for its intense richness and full-bodied nature, this has more to do with the way the grapes are planted and when they are harvested than any intrinsic property of blanc de noirs Champagne, which is often little different from cuvées including a proportion of Chardonnay.

Blanc de blanc

A French term that means "white of whites", and is used to designate champagnes made exclusively from Chardonnay grapes. The term is occasionally used in other sparkling wine-producing regions, usually to denote Chardonnay-only wines rather than any sparkling wine made from other white grape varieties.

Rosé Champagne

The rosé wines of Champagne are produced either by leaving the clear juice of black grapes to macerate on its skins for a brief time or, more commonly, by adding a small amount of still Pinot noir red wine to the sparkling wine cuvee. Champagne is typically light in color even if it is produced with red grapes, because the juice is extracted from the grapes using a gentle process that minimizes the amount of time the juice spends in contact with the skins, which is what gives red wine its color. Rosé champagne is one of the few wines that allows the production of Rosé by the addition a small amount of red wine during blending. This ensures a predictable and reproducible color, allowing a constant Rosé color from year-to-year.

Children's Word of the Day - Comic Strip

Kids, when you read a comic strip in the newspaper, say "une bande dessinée"

Quick Phrase of the Day - It Didn't Snow Much In Paris

il n'a pas neigé beaucoup à Paris (eel nah pah nay zhay bow koo ah pah ree) -It didn't snow much in Paris.

Repeat this phrase all day long till you know it by heart.

Vocabulary word of the day:

un mystère (uhn mist ehr) a mystery

elle est un mystère pour moi (ell eht uhn mist ehr pore mwah) -She is a mystery to me

Children's Word of the Day - Dictionary

Kids when you use a dictionary, say, "un dictionnaire"

Viens avec moi sur la piste de danse (vee yehn ah vehk mwah soor lah peest deh dahnce) -Come with me out on the dance floor

Repeat this phrase all day long till you know it by heart.

Vocabulary word of the day:

étage (ay tahzh) -floor

J'habite au premier étage zhah beet oh preh mee yay ay tahzh) -I live on the first floor

Must See french Film -Le Dîner de Cons

Le dîner de cons (English: The Dinner Game, literally: The Dinner of Idiots) is a very funny French film directed by Francis Veber that was released in 1998. It is a cinema adaptation of the theatrical play of the same name.

I watched this last night again and fogot how really funny this film was.

Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte), a famous Parisian publisher, attends a weekly "idiots' dinner", where guests, who are prominent Parisian businessmen, must bring along an "idiot" of whom the other invitees can make fun. At the end of the dinner, the evening's champion idiot is selected.

Pierre Brochant manages, with the help of an "idiot scout", to find a "gem": François Pignon, a Finance Ministry employee who is crazy about building replicas with matchsticks. Things start to go haywire when Brochant's wife leaves him shortly before François Pignon arrives at his apartment. When Pignon arrives, he tries to help Brochant, but makes many bad mistakes. Eventually, he brings in his friend, a tax auditor, who makes an unpleasant discovery about his own wife. It is easy to pity both of the main characters, M. Pignon for being made fun of and used in such a cruel way, and M. Brochant, who has, in one night, lost his wife, suffered a wrenched back, reconciled with a former friend, been audited for tax evasion, called a raunchy sex addict named Pascal Meneaux and dumped his extra-marital girlfriend, all because of the badgering guest who won't leave.