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More photos of Niveau 2

Since we have parted ways I have received many more photos of niveau 2. I made another small gallery of 21 photos here. I probably have 500 pictures of various combinations of us so I had to decide which ones to use. For now I think that is enough. I like the photo where Katerina [...]

The Garonne River at night

On Thursday night Jean-Jacques and I went for a walk because the weather was so warm. We were also looking for any signs of the Chinese New Year. Nothing about Chinese New Year but lots of signs of life. The students were out in full force. We walked down to the Garonne River and along [...]

Kika est le plus beau chien!

Kika est le plus beau chien!

Look at these photos. The weather has been amazing this week, 16-18C - 60-65F. These were taken in the Jardin Royal and the ducks were out and buds are on the bushes. They are taken from my camera phone so the quality is not so great.

And another

Barbara Ehrenreich

I always enjoy her writing and thoughts. I hope I have stayed true to fair use laws. I came across this when I was searching for Super Tuesday info. This was much more interesting.
The Boom Was a Bust for Ordinary People
by Barbara Ehrenreich
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/05/6859/
It begins to sound a bit naughty — all this talk about the [...]

Happy Chinese New Year

We are in the year of the rat. Here is a short video of Chinese New Year in Toulouse. It was on Rue de Metz.

Pratiquez L’imparfait

Pratiquez L'imparfait

Regardez la photo et imaginez que vous êtes un pompier. Comment etait les camions de pompiers. Decrivez-les, utilisez l’imparfait. Lessez un commentaire avec votre description.
Formation: on utilise la forme du verbe au présent avec nous (le radical) + les terminaisons de l’imparfait.
Parler –> nous parlons –> utilise parl + les terminaisons de l’imparfait
Parler

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