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i got an old book about the greek language for 1$ today :)

Our Wish for the End, Me, Digital Collage, 2020

“Hence I sit fearless on my goat, My naked charms displaying.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from “Faust I”, published p. 1808.

Paris mornings

“it is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing. Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry. I know Hyacinthus, whom Apollo loved so madly, was you in Greek days.”

Oscar Wilde to lover Lord Alfred “Bosie” Douglas, January 1893

Masterlist: Vocab lists

Octobre

Yoga

Cheveux

Mer

Le marché de noel

Le bricolage

La mort

Le tribunal

La voiture

Ecriture inclusive

Space

La guerre

Vocabulaire du jour 1

Vocabulaire du jour 2

Vocabulaire du jour 3 

Vocabulaire du jour 4

Vocabulaire du jour 5

Vocabulaire du jour 6 

Vocabulaire du jour 7

Vocabulaire du jour 8

Vocabulaire du jour 9

Vocabulaire du jour 10

La Mante S1 E1

La Mante S1 E2

La Mante S1 E3

La Mante S1 E4 and 5

La Mante S1 E6

Workout

Recap Vocab verbes

Recap Vocab adverbes

Recap Vocab adjectifs

Recap Vocab nouns

Study Vocab

Hockey

La casa de papel/ Money Heist

La casa de papel/ Money Heist season 5 episode 1

Random Vocab

Random Vocab 2

Télévision et film

Faire du camping

La cuisine

L’île mystérieuse part 1

L’île mystérieuse part 2

L’île mystérieuse part 3

Le tour du monde en 80 jours part 1

Le tour du monde en 80 jours part 2

Voyage au centre de la terre part 1

Voyage au centre de la terre part 2

Vingt mile lieues sous les mers

Le Horla

Science et recherche

Bel Ami chapitre 1 

Bel Ami chapitre 2 

Bel Ami chapitre 3 

Bel Ami chapitre 4

Bel Ami chapitre 5

Bel Ami chapitre 6 

Bel Ami chapitre 7

Bel Ami chapitre 8

Bel Ami 2.1

Bel Ami 2.2.

Bel Ami 2.3

Bel Ami 2.4

Bel Ami 2.5 + 2.6

Bel Ami 2.7

Bel Ami 2.8+2.9+2.10

Flaubert: Un coeur simple

Flaubert: La légende de Saint Julien

Flaubert: Hérodias 

Nautical vocab in French

Au travail

L’environnement

La parure - Maupassant

Words I didn’t know in le Musée d’Orsay

Halloween

Les instruments

Les vêtements

Song translation masterlist/ Expressions masterlist / Grammar masterlist

spring is not gentle

trembling towards tomorrow

trepidation of love now renewed;

it is a scab scraped over winter

and its bloody, weeping wounds.

French Resource List

Hopefully even if you've been learning French for a while one of these resources may be of use to you

General

French dictionary

Best online French-English dictionary (which also has bilingual dictionaries for a number of languages) as it has example sentences in French with translations, forum, verb conjugations, idioms, and more

RFI listening and reading exercises for all levels incorporating the news into your learning

Grammar

Français Lingolia with exercises

Listening

Journal en Français Facile radio/ podcast with transcripts for each episode

News in Slow French podcast

Conversational French Mises à Jour with transcripts

If you live in Australia, SBS has a French news podcast

French dictation exercises write what you hear

Youtube comedy series Bref

Belgian LGBTQ+ Youtube series La théorie du Y

Youtube comedy series Le Département

French comedy series that has whole episodes for free on Youtube Fais pas ci fais pas ça

Skam France is a teen show so you can learn heaps of slang, it also has subtitles for each episode in French and English

Youtube

Home Language - vocab and grammar

Hugo Décrypte - daily news

MisterJDay - comedy

Le Monde - news but many of their videos have subtitles

Reading

Simple articles originally written for children, also has a Youtube playlist (1jour 1actu)

Le Petit Scribe reading comprehension and exercises level B1 but also has the same for all levels

Reading (or listening) comprehension - Le Petit Nicolas

Writing

À vos plumes - writing practice and grammar

Oui c'est ça writing practice

Proofreading checklist

Other

Thoughtco French articles on grammar, vocab, verbs, etc.

French slang dictionary

French vowel pronunciation part 1 and part 2 with audio

More useful French pronunciation tips with audio and IPA

EDIT: just remembered in case you feel like torturing yourself you can do Victorian year 12 level French exams 2001 to 2020 for free on the VCE website with the audio and answers available. It would probably be more helpful to not do it within the time limit and listen to the audio as much as you need to. You might also find the HSC exam papers useful from what I can see there's three different levels of French exams (beginners, continuers, and advanced) just find them in the list of subjects and you'll get to the exams.

already well into november but i thought i’d post (with pdfs included of course) some things i read (& loved) in october b/c it was a hard month & these writings held my hand the whole way through 

‘by grand central station i sat down and wept,’ elizabeth smart (!)

‘life and death,’ andrea dworkin 

‘seam,’ tarfia faizullah (!)

‘play it as it lays,’ joan didion 

‘war of the foxes,’ richard siken

‘midwinter day,’ bernadette mayer

‘in the pines,’ alice notley

‘death is not an option,’ suzanne rivecca (!)

‘the dead and the living,’ sharon olds

‘the melancholy of anatomy,’ shelley jackson

‘edinburgh,’ alexander chee

‘the woman destroyed,’ simone de beauvoir (!)

‘monster: poems,’ robin morgan

‘how we became human,’ joy harjo

‘ayiti,’ roxane gay (!) 

‘our andromeda,’ brenda shaughnessy

‘second childhood,’ fanny howe

‘the lady in the looking glass,’ virginia woolf

“The light of a candle

is transferred to another candle—

spring twilight”

- Yosa Buson

- Yosa Buson