vendredi 13 mars 2009

Belgian joke



1. You get to speak three languages, but none of them intelligibly.

2. If other countries want to fight a war, they will do it in your country.

3. You can brew drinks out of fruit, and still call it beer.

4. You are either
a. like the Dutch, just less efficient
b. like the French, just less romantic
c. like the Germans

5. Decent fries. Real mayonnaise. Great chocolate. The best beer.

6. No one knows anything about you, except for the Dutch and French and they make fun of you.

7. More scandals in a week than any other country in a decade.

8. You can drive like a maniac on the road and nobody cares

9. All your famous countrymen are either imaginary, or sex-offenders

10. Face it. It's not really a country, is it?

http://www.afunworld.com/racial-jokes/joke-360.htm


Let's face it!
that's the general ideas that french people have of belgian's.
"They're not a country!"How many times have we been saying that?Honestly...
they're nice people, eating fries and chocolate, drinking beers...
But did you know that they have the same kind of jokes about us?

"Pourquoi les Français ont-ils choisi le coq comme emblème ?
C'est le seul animal capable de chanter les pieds dans la merde. "

"Pourquoi les Français aiment-ils tant les histoires belges ?
Parce qu'elles les font rire trois fois :
La première quand on les leur raconte
La deuxième quand on les leur explique,
et la troisième quand ils les comprennent ."

Sorry I didn't found any in english but well, I just wanted to give a glimpse of the kind of jokes that they make about us,
do you know any?
please if you do, share it with us!

mercredi 11 mars 2009

post

I forgot the link, scuze me!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve7PHxGlP4Y

top of the pop, made in romania

I can't help any more, I must share this marvel wih you.....


Nicolae Guta-Gigolo

Sunt frumos ce fata am de gigolo
Mor femeile de mine ce misto
Niciuna din sat nu mi-a scapat
Si-acum sigur unul iar m-a reclamat.

I'm gorgeous, Such a gigolo face I have
Women are all crazy about me, So cool
No one in the village didn't fall in love with me
And now, the is one for sure who complained in the police office by jalousy


Refren/ Chorus

Bate-n noapte cineva
Cu parul la poarta mea
Daca e politia….
Ce ma fac ca iar ma ia.

Someone at the middle of the night knocking
with a cudgel at the door
If it's the police
What will I do if they they catch me.


Bun la toate,bun la munca,bun la pat
Cum la mine-n sat nu e nici un barbat
Toate fug de acasa cum le-am invatat
Aoleu ce mai scandal am provocat.

Good in everything, good at work, good in the bed
As there isn't any other guy in the village.
All the girls escape from their family home as I teached to them
« Ohlala » Such a mess I provocked !

romanians and poverty

The Romanians seen by The French
One of the prejudice concerning the Romanians is linked to their appearance. Usually we say that Romanians have dark skin and dark hair. As we associate dark skin with “dirty” and “ugly” this is equally the case for the Romanians. Some people say that children in Romania are sweet which is is a good thing but we know that the majority of the population is formed by adults who are apparently excluded from this category.
Moreover, having dark skin is not the big problem, these people migrate and we say in general that they are as many abroad as in their country. In France we have created some terms with pejorative connotation which point out the Romanians as : “romano”. When the French say “ romano” they think immediately at “ caravan” and the concept of “house” is rarely associated for these people. Some of stereotypes concerning the Romanians are so institutionalized that they created jokes such as : “ Romanians are sending their children to beg at the red light.
Being done that there are a lot of tramps from Romania , French people have the tendency to think that they don't have no honor and that they live shameless. Another stereotype joining the list is the connexion that we do between Romanians and prostitution, between Romanians and thefts. In addition to these we can say also that during the fall of the communism in 1989 the execution of Ceausescu which has been transmitted directly on television shocked the foreign opinion. So now people associate directly Romania with communism and the image of the dictator.

lundi 2 mars 2009

Prejudices and French as a foreign language

Hi guys!
About our subject, the european prejudices, Cecile had show me that website and I thought that would perfectly match that blog, could also help some of you in your future class as a french teacher, have a look !!!

http://domus.grenet.fr/cuef/ccuefd/pages/pole/pol1.htm