Alexis de Welty in French October 22, 2024 En prévision d’une victoire de Trump, j’ai pensé à être un Alexis de Tocqueville inversé. En fait, j’y ai réfléchi peu de temps après… Continue Reading
Alexis De Welty en Anglais October 22, 2024 In anticipation of a Trump victory I’ve been thinking about being a reverse Alexis de Tocqueville. Actually I’ve given that thought from not long… Continue Reading
Duolingo Complaints February 7, 2023 From the first weeks on Duoling five years ago I found people griping about how it made changes to the language learning game they… Continue Reading
Talking politics in French —- to: “they own a lot of guns” August 22, 2022 I am two months shy of five years trying to learn French. I told myself at the beginning of this year that I thought… Continue Reading
You catch more lies…..a good catch by my French readers May 23, 2022 Silly me. I sometimes rush between tasks I don’t take the care I should and that was true of the last post….. I was… Continue Reading
Der des Der March 12, 2022 My French is improving but I have a long ways to go before I’ll be able to tackle my newly acquired version of Democracy… Continue Reading
My Four year French language Report January 29, 2022 I actually hit the four year mark last November a little before my birthday. But my principal means of studying Duolingo soon tempted me… Continue Reading
Vive la France….From this week’s Reader November 12, 2021 The Reader online is now separate from the Reader at the newsstands. Consequently, sometimes my columns don’t get published online for me to link… Continue Reading
“Life is too short to learn German.” September 18, 2021 I don’t blame the French for recalling their ambassador over the loss of their submarine sales. It was a huge deal for them with… Continue Reading
A dolly is not a poupee September 17, 2021 Here is a small portion of my text conversation with my French pen pal who is helping move a friend out of an apartment… Continue Reading
Harry’s Diary Sept 16, 2021 September 15, 2021 I am uniquely qualified to do what I am likely to commence after I come back from France. I have plenty of time to… Continue Reading
Face masking myself to France September 3, 2021 While I am on the subject of French, visiting France and inconveniences here is what the French will expect me to look like out… Continue Reading
une meme examan August 27, 2021 I spent twenty minutes this morning picking up the old cups, cans and bottles from my neighbor’s party “welcoming” students back to UMD. I… Continue Reading
Stamps for my pen pal July 5, 2020 As I’ve noted before I have a French pen-pal who is teaching me French while I help S. polish up on English. S has… Continue Reading
Its not yet finished in English but I’m thinking about selling it in France June 7, 2020 I may change the title and front cover: A pitch to the French Book Market: Aux amis de Gilbert du Motier,Marquis de Lafayette J… Continue Reading
About my French, About my book May 22, 2020 I told my French pen pal “S” a week ago that I would be busy writing my campaign book and not to expect me… Continue Reading
And I talk politics with my French pen pal March 12, 2020 Even as I tear my hair out with my ex brother in law I’ve got other political discussions started in one case with a… Continue Reading
Duolingo and learning lingo at an advanced age May 8, 2019 I just spent some time reading a discussion site on my Duolingo ap. One person about my age had expressed frustration with how slow… Continue Reading
Notre Dame Cathedral fire April 15, 2019 a friend just texted me telling me that she hoped I visited Notre Dame Cathedral when I visited france because it was on fire…. Continue Reading
Going to bed with Peppa March 30, 2019 Last night for the second time I risked my cell phone’s melatonin messing blue light to watch little snatches of the cartoon Peppa the… Continue Reading
