3-4 Breaking Bad March 4, 2025 Last post Next post This is an afternoon project. Feel free to come back! Continue Reading
3-4 Napoleon March 4, 2025 Last post Next post This is an afternoon project. Feel free to come back! Continue Reading
Two more books March 3, 2025 Last post Next post I meant for this to be my big non political post but the previous post eclipsed it. Yup. I’m over… Continue Reading
No shortage of things to talk about – en Francais February 3, 2025 Mon esprit déborde de français Par exemple Les téléspectateurs de cette chaîne d’information sont complices du meurtre de la princesse Diana, de l’étranglement de… Continue Reading
English to French with Artificial Intelligence and back again January 28, 2025 In the last post I showed a little bit of the AI treatment of a forthcoming column of mine for the publication the Duluth… Continue Reading
Magie January 25, 2025 Notez la sorcière à la cravate rouge qui survole la cité d’émeraude de Harry Welty. Il y a dix ans, la nuit du décès… Continue Reading
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