🇺🇸 Today, a colorful French quote about Roman emperor Claudius by Auguste Bailly, in his book on Roman philosopher Seneca📜 « Vaniteux, sordide, rusé, inerte, et parfois agité de brusques velléités despotiques, ce souverain sans pareil offrait à l’univers le spectacle d’une farce à la fois bouffonne et tragique. » Auguste Bailly La vie de Sénèque (1929)📚 […]
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🇯🇵 Miss Dior x Haruka Kojin
Twelve artists around the world were chosen to interpret the iconic fragrance Miss Dior and show their work in the Miss Dior Exhibition at the Le Château de La Colle Noire near Grasse on the French Riviera. One of them is Japanese artist Haruka Kojin (荒神 明香). Her installation is truly beautiful and so delicate, […]
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🇫🇷 French expression🧅
« S’occuper de ses oignons »🧅 🇺🇸 It means “to mind one’s business.” Literally, it means “to take care of one’s onions.” It originally comes from the familiar expression “occupe-toi de tes fesses” (= lit. “take care of your buttocks” = mind your business), in which “fesses (buttock)” has been replaced by “onions (onion).” « – Alors, […]
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🏛 Latin quote📜
🏛 Et quod temptabam scribere versus erat – Ovidius 🇺🇸 “Everything I tried to write was poetry.”Ovidius tells us his immense love for poetry📜 🇫🇷 « Tout ce que j’essayais d’écrire prenait la forme des vers. » Phrase d’Ovide, illustrant à quel point il était féru de poésie📚 🇯🇵 「自分が書こうとするものは全て詩だった。」どれだけ詩に熱中していたかを語るオウィディウス📚 « Jibun ga kakou to suru mono wa […]
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🇯🇵 Princess Mako: さん or さま？
You may have heard about the recent marriage of now former Princess Mako (眞子) with commoner Komuro Kei (小室圭). Mako decided to give up her imperial status, to become a “normal” citizen, and live a new life away from the media, in New York. She declined a 140 million yen payment which the imperial family members normally receive […]
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🇫🇷 French Quote about Dostoïevsky
Today, a quote by André Gide, about Dostoïevsky: « On s’attend à trouver un dieu; on touche un homme — malade, pauvre, peinant sans cesse et singulièrement dépourvu de cette pseudo-qualité qu’il reprochait tant au français : l’éloquence. » André Gide Dostoïevski (1908)📚 🇫🇷Fin portrait de Dostoïevsky, de la part d’un grand écrivain, André Gide📚 De Baudelaire […]
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🇫🇷 French expression🐰
« Poser un lapin (à quelqu’un)»🐰 🇺🇸 It means “to stand (somebody up)” (lit. “to put a rabbit”)🐰 « Elle n’a pas le moral aujourd’hui parce qu’il lui a posé un lapin. Mais quel goujat! »🐰🐰🐰 🇯🇵 直訳は「うさぎを置く」で、「すっぽかす」という意味の可愛らしい表現です🐇 Chokuyaku wa “usagi wo oku” de, “suppokasu” toiuu imi no kawairashii hyougen desu.
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🇯🇵 Japanese expressions about rudeness
To describe a rude or pushy behavior, there’s a great idiomatic expression which comes directly from Japanese customs: 土足で（家に）入る Dosoku de (ie ni) hairu It literally means “to enter (someone’s house) with shoes on.” Since people take out their shoes when entering a house in Japan, leaving one’s shoes on is incredibly rude and inconsiderate. […]
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🇯🇵 Cats and Japanese Expressions🐈
Since Japanese has many words and expressions related to cats, I wanted to share a few with you. Unfortunately, cats are not always associated with positive behaviors. ■ 猫舌 (nekojita): “Cat tongue” refers to people who can’t eat or drink hot things, hot in temperature — like cats. In Japan, eating things while they are […]
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🇫🇷 Petite vidéo sur la Suisse🇨🇭
Do you wonder what Swiss people think of French people and Swiss clichés? Antoine de Caunes, a famous French TV personality, has started a TV series about Switzerland. In this short teaser on the link below, he interviews a Swiss person in French, and they talk about misconceptions about Switzerland, how Swiss people feel about […]