Listening to the sung word is a wonderfully osmotic way to learn, especially a Romance language. Even if un peu ringard--in the first sense of the word, out of date and not minable--these two French songs with lingering lyrics are more than listenable: Françoise Hardy singing Mon Amie la Rose and Yves Montand interpreting Les Roses de Picardie.
Vocabularyune rose: a rose
un rosier: a rose bush
rose: pink
rose saumoné, -e: salmon pink
un peu: a little bit
vernaculaire: vernacular
minable: mediocre, pathetic
ringard, -e: (familiar) out of date, square
Expression
voir la vie en rose: to see life in rose-tinted glasses
Text & photo ©2011 P.B. Lecron
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