Chloe: Critic Girl/Renaissance Woman

In conjunction with my endeavours into French, I tried searching today for podcasts in french to work on my listening comprehension. While I do use movies for this as well, I have just about memorized Amelie and I don’t think that counts as “understanding.”

I only found one site with French podcasts and they were all out of date. I suppose I shouldn’t beg and then choose, but a girl can try. I’m relatively new to the podcasting world and so am only beginning to learn the ways to locate interesting ones - I’ve found some great law resources, as well as news and politics. But, my friends, I’m looking for French culture, history, news, politics, anything.

Additionally, I’m amassing whatever French music I can find for the same purposes. I’m virtually addicted to Carla Bruni - she is amazing. I also know that some blog I read had a whole post full of links to French music and I must hunt this down again….perhaps one of the librarians?

Update: I found the post - “French Chanson Linkfest” by Depraved Librarian. Since Finals Period is on strong, I’m going to stick to french music and will get back to films and the next of Leonardo’s Seven Senses: Dimostracione in two weeks.

tags: podcasting, french, music

Polyglot
1. A person having a speaking, reading, or writing knowledge of several languages.
2. A book, especially a Bible, containing several versions of the same text in different languages.
3. A mixture or confusion of languages.

Despite my genuine interest in learning Spanish, I’ve decided to put that off for a while and to listen to my instincts. I am much more advanced in my French abilities and often seek out French websites, radio stations, etc. I also found an NYU Continuing and Professional Studies Certificate Program for translation of legal documents from French to English. Of course, there is also a course for Spanish to English, and that will be useful for another day.

And so, to prevent the risk of dilletantism taking over my pursuits of genius, I am going to take some French conversation and/or general French classes this summer at the Alliance Francaise here in NYC. Hopefully, after a summer brush-up, I will be able to get into the Translation certificate program.

Once I’ve mastered one language, then I will return to my lingual dilletantism and work on my Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and German. Not necessarily in that order