Bonjour SUDOC
LibraryThing now connects to SUDOC, the Système universitaire de documentation, a French union catalog of university libraries (see Wikipedia). SUDOC sports some seven million records—a huge boost to LibraryThing.fr and Thingamabrarians with French books generally.
Three cheers to Nicomo for helping me on this. He found it, fiddled with YAZ and sent me the exact connection info. SUDOC is actually the first time I've managed to parse Unimarc. Solving that (mostly) opens the door to many other libraries. Nicomo, you're a star!
Speaking of French, my family has a non-English-speaking Frenchman over to Thanksgiving. My French is extremely rusty, but I'm thinking I can jog my memory by listening to some simple conversations, news reports and especially vocabulary lists while I work. Any suggestions?
Three cheers to Nicomo for helping me on this. He found it, fiddled with YAZ and sent me the exact connection info. SUDOC is actually the first time I've managed to parse Unimarc. Solving that (mostly) opens the door to many other libraries. Nicomo, you're a star!
Speaking of French, my family has a non-English-speaking Frenchman over to Thanksgiving. My French is extremely rusty, but I'm thinking I can jog my memory by listening to some simple conversations, news reports and especially vocabulary lists while I work. Any suggestions?
posted by Tim at 11:29 PM
18 Comments:
Turn on the French language lesson show that's always on the public tv stations, the one with the guy, who's always repeating "écouter".
Check out a french book on tape/cd.
Watch your favorite DVD, but with the French language selection on.
Rent a French film--Amelie, Jules et...(crap my mind went blank), Wasabi
opinicus...who can't remember how to login on thing..it's late.
No TV, but the French-language setting on a DVD—I use my computer—is a good one. There are a few movies I know almost by heart. Au Revoir les Enfants is my favorite French film, but I'd need to actually watch it, not just listen.
French public radio has a bunch of podcasts: see http://www.radiofrance.fr/services/rfmobiles/podcast/index.php?chaine=5
Among many other shows I would recommend "De bouche à Oreille" (from mouth to ear), weekly, 30mn, about food & cooking.
Hi Tim!
Did you try the Pimsler method ?
Maybe it would be useful if you listened to the apropriate level.
Listening to France Inter in www.radiofrance.fr, is also a good idea!
Otherwise, you could always pay us a visit, once in a time, that has always been the best way to improve your french!
Enjoy french grammar !
Zuzka from Paris
There are a lot of Disney songs up on Youtube in French (and German, and Icelandic, and Malay...) if you want to listen to music.
To help your french, take a week-end vacation to Montreal (east part: St-Denis, Vieux-Montreal, Plateau Mont-Royal). It's only a 5 hour drive from Portland through the magnificent New Hampshire White Mountains.
The PBS French instruction programs are called "French in Action" by Capretz of Yale (I think). You can access them online free-of-charge at http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html
Also, french.about.com is a very useful site with some audio as well.
Yeah, That's it the "French in Action" He's always saying "écouter"! I used to watch all the time when I was younger and the only French I picked up from it was "écouter". My pronunciation is PERFECT. I have learned a little more but from other sources, mostly cussing. (^0^)
I believe there's a French speaking nation a few km to your north. And they don't stop at the Québec border, either!
When I saw the title of your page, I thought you might be adding US federal document classification to LibraryThing. Federal classification is known as Superintendent of Documents Classification System or SuDoc for short.
Not that I see a need for SuDoc numbers here, unless some LibraryThings happen to have some of the best titles ever in govdocs in their collections!
Thanks for all the great work!
I love that page, although the BNF doesn't look very welcoming. They have card catalogs where the scholars should be, I think. Anyway, BNF is not currently an LT library. We have it in the testing section. It's Unicode-MARC, and I'm having trouble convincing it to behave.
It would be nice to have the Library of Quebec.There's some info here but I have no idea if it is any use. The entire looks useful.
Wow! The hot_library_smut pictures are pretty darn impressive!
Trinity College Dublin is the best, in my opinion. My wife and I went there when we were in Ireland. I had never seen a photo of it and was blown away. Even so, I also remember thinking--this was way way back when we had just 1 million books--"LibraryThing has more books than this!" ;)
Okay, I gotta ask. Did you actually get permission to use Rijksmuseum Amsterdam III for Librarians who LibraryThing?
Anon.: I don't think so. I'll ask Abby (who created the group and has control of images) and ask her to take it down and write the photographer.
Tim,
You might look through this little page that I put together (quickly) last summer for my French conversation group. The emphasis is on free French language resources.
Have a nice holiday!
Sgt
Attend an immersion school when you're a child. Now if only they had time machines....
But seriously, I did go to a french immersion school, which I have to say was positively the best way I've seen to learn a language, although quite intense.
Also, I can't believe no one has mentioned the two children's TV shows that were everpresent for language learning in french: the french version of Muzzy (a purple monster), and Téléfrançais (starring ananas, the pineapple). Ah, the memories. The horrific memories.
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