[Replay] FYW 007 : Date, Month, Year, Seasons…and French Poetry

How to tell the date in French: a bit of French grammar and a poetic bonus as I’ll be reading a famous poem by Verlaine for you: "Chanson d’Automne"...
Vocabulary and Spelling of the French Words mentioned in this episode
Le 30 mars, le 4 avril, le 7 mai, le 1er (premier) septembre
le (+ date) = le 1er janvier, le 2 avril, le 9 septembre
le 1er janvier, le 2 janvier, le 3 janvier, etc

en (+ month) = en mars, en novembre
SEPTembre, OCTobre, NOVembre, DECembre = sept (7), huit (8), neuf (9), dix (10)
en (+ year) = en 1920, en 2015
une saison = a season
le printemps, l’été (nm), l’automne (nm), l’hiver (nm)
en été, en automne, en hiver (= in summer, in fall, in winter)
au printemps (= in spring)
LINKS and RESOURCES
“Chanson d’Automne” (Paul Verlaine, Poèmes saturniens)
Les sanglots longs - The long sobs
Des violons - Of the violins
De l’automne - Of Autumn
Blessent mon cœur - Wound my heart
D’une langueur - With a monotonous
Monotone. - Languor.

Tout suffocant - All choked
Et blême, quand - And pale, when
Sonne l'heure, - The hour chimes,
Je me souviens - I remember
Des jours anciens - Days of old
Et je pleure - And I cry

Et je m'en vais - And I'm going
Au vent mauvais - On an ill wind
Qui m'emporte - That carries me
Deçà, delà, - Here and there,
Pareil à la - As if a
Feuille morte. - Dead leaf.

Read more French poems about the seasons:
http://www.poesie-francaise.fr/poemes-saisons/
http://www.historel.net/poesies/poesie10.htm

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