I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them.
voyageravecraison asked:
whosaprettypolyglot answered:
Two top language bookshops, one of them is one of the branches of Gibert Jeune just off boulevard St Michel (there’s also a great 2nd hand bookstore called Boulinier which has a little constantly changing language section), and Attica which is somewhere in the south (I don’t remember right now but you’ll find it online ahah)
My favourite things to do are to go to high places hahah. Top one is the tower of Notre Dame (though that’s some queueing), followed by the Arc de triomphe, but the roof of the galeries lafayette is p cool too. I’d recommend one of the boat trips (les bateaux mouches) up the river, Versailles, the Catacombs, le jardin de Luxembourg, père lachaise… there’s practically unlimited things to do tbh haha.
The St Michel area is a really nice place to go out to eat and there are some nice bars in the grands boulevards area or south of Pigalle…
i’m bad at this tbh
I’ve spent so much money at Gilbert Jeune! :’( Well, no. I’m not sad. My bank account is.
BBC - The Beauty Of Books. Part 2: Medieval Masterpieces
Reblogging because of reasons. Well, medieval books. Books!
My masterpost for those learning French. I’ll continue to update this as I find/remember more resources!
Reading
L'Internaute (news and features)
Huffington Post in French (poorly reported shock journalism but in French so)
Le Monde (news)
Comment Ça Marche (tech stuff)
L'Équipe (sports)
Wattpad (read amateur stories in French)
French books available for Kindle in the United States
A store that sells foreign-language books in the US
Être Meilleur (self-improvement)
1jour1actu (news)
Courrier International (collects news stories from around the world and translates them into French)
Watching
Some recommended French movies
Some more recommended French movies
TV5MONDE+ (News videos in French)
1jour1actu (lots of short, easy-to-understand videos)
Some movies and TV shows to stream, mostly dubbed
Listening
France Bienvenue (listen to native speakers during an interview and read the transcript)
France Inter (A bit like NPR in France)
RFI (More French radio. Click “Apprendre le français” in the top left corner to listen to a short top-stories broadcast while reading the script)
Pronunciation
Forvo (search for any word and hear a native speaker say it.)
Introduction to French Phonology (I cannot stress enough how much this program will help you if you’re a native English speaker and having trouble pronouncing in French. It’s not exactly super stimulating but HUGELY beneficial.)
Grammar
Some grammar exercises from Columbia
Podcasts
All available on iTunes:
Coffee Break French
Native French Speech
RFI - Journal en français façile
News in Slow French
Vocabulary
Linguee (SO HELPFUL. Put in the short phrase you’re trying to say in English and see how professionals have translated it.)
Misc
A bunch of quotes about travel in French
OpenCulture (TONS of great resources for language learning)
Well, this is the third time here at Sexy Codicology that we are delighted to communicate that the Vatican Library has, once again, digitized and made available a few hundreds new manuscripts!
Since we started the DMMmaps project, the Vatican Library has more than doubled the number of digitally available books.Plus, they have reorganized the home page: Where once you could see the endless list…
Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.
Anonymous asked:
By CS Lewis? Hmm.. I’d say yes. But there’s also Perelandra.
But my favourite book in general? Ermm.. Hard to say. There are so many books that I love. I can’t decide. But for sure, some volumes of the Chronicles of Narnia. Hmm.. Also The Book of Lost Tales by JRR Tolkien. And Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I know that’s a lot. Sorry.
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