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Introduce Yourself / Hi I'm Tiphaine
« on: May 05, 2008, 10:25:26 am »
Yeah Ive been to Ireland many times. I want to return again. Ive been to England too. I've never been to the US, Id love to but it's very expensive  :cry:

I'd love to see Vanessa Carlton in live. I think she went to Paris but it was a long time ago when she released "a thousand miles"

I don't think you can say "preferred" for "préféré". I think it's "favourite". I don't think you can say "capable", I've always seen "able".

Teacher is a great job, but my aunt is a German teacher and she told me such awful stories about the kids bullying and all that I can't feel the bravery to try the job, besides i'm very shy and I hate speaking in front of many people.

T'as dû faire une licence avant d'aller à l'IUFM, t'as fait quelle filiere? Moi je suis en troisieme année de LLCE, les partiels approchent vais-je survivre?  :lol:

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Creative Endeavors / Beautiful French text translated into English
« on: May 05, 2008, 10:15:38 am »
I didn't know Coldplay and Aaron were the same band. I love Coldplay too, especially the song "the scientist".

Yes you're right about the French movie "je vais bien, ne t'en fais pas"! (sorry I couldn't find the time to answer)
I've seen the movie it's really good and the track really fits in. It's funny because the main character in a 20-years-old girl and she's very alike me in many ways.

It tells the story of a young girl whose twin brother has disappeared. Her parents tell her that he left home after a fight. The girl wants to find her brother and as she has no news from him she stops eating (anorexia) and she's sent to the hospital. But she starts eating again when her father gives her a postcard of her brother, and she's out of the hospital. After she gives up her studies to work at a cash desk (caissière, I'm not sure about the word) in a supermarket. And she has a love story with a guy (sorry my English sucks  :lol: ). At the end of the movie the girl discover that in fact her brother is dead and that it was her father who wrote the postcards. But she's thankful to her father because she says she would have died if he hadn't done that.

It's funny because in the movie you always see the girl walking down the street listening to her walkman and you hear the sing "U-turn" by Aaron, and I'm always listening to my walkman (I'm not sure about the structure here), and it's exactly the type of music I like.

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Creative Endeavors / Beautiful French text translated into English
« on: April 25, 2008, 01:36:42 am »
tu voyages beaucoup dis donc! c'est comment les Etats-Unis?
(toi et ton amie vous parlez très bien français/you and your friend are speaking really good French)

I know a few words in Arabic: "salamalikoum", which means "hello" doesn't it?
And "bakschich", which in French would mean something like "pourboire" (I heard that in Egypt)

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Creative Endeavors / Beautiful French text translated into English
« on: April 25, 2008, 12:54:45 am »
You know it's the same for me...I feel really awkward when I speak English because my accent's not good...

But your French looks ok, you don't have to be embarrassed...you're lucky to  be able to speak 3 languages  :D  :D
So let's speak French:

alors tu viens du Liban? j'ai une amie qui est à moitié libanaise. Il parait qu'il y a eu la guerre là bas en 2006?

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Creative Endeavors / Beautiful French text translated into English
« on: April 24, 2008, 11:31:40 pm »
Aaron is the name of a British singer, he sings "U turn": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJRh0PlWB6g

d'you like him?

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Creative Endeavors / Beautiful French text translated into English
« on: April 24, 2008, 11:31:08 pm »
@VanessaCarltonMania: where have you learnt French, is it at school?

@NESSAussie: whoaaaa this picture is soooooo beautiful! can you tell me what's a "sig"?
Unfortunately I think Gaelic language is on its way to death   :cry:  :cry:

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Creative Endeavors / Beautiful French text translated into English
« on: April 24, 2008, 11:49:57 am »
The thing is, I actually don't have another work to share  :wink:

@VanessaCarltonMania: tu sais parler français? (can you speak French?)

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Introduce Yourself / Hi I'm Tiphaine
« on: April 24, 2008, 11:44:47 am »
Do you wanna be a teacher of English? I could never be a teacher, I'm not enough self-confident  :?
Why aren't any American people answering?  (and correct our English   :lol:  :lol:  :lol: )

I love Ireland it's a great country if there's someone who got Irish blood I'd pleased to speak to him/her  :D  :D

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Introduce Yourself / Hi I'm Tiphaine
« on: April 24, 2008, 03:24:47 am »
Yeah I'm crazy about celtic stuff since I've been to Ireland...My favourite band is The Corrs, do you like them?
What's your occupation in life? I study English and Russian languages at university

(it's really really weird to speak English with someone who's French  :razz:  :razz: )

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Creative Endeavors / Beautiful French text translated into English
« on: April 24, 2008, 03:19:58 am »
thks  :lol:  :lol:
In fact I study English litterature at university though I still have a terrible accent when I open my mouth (but when I sing Vanessa's songs its ok  :D )

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Creative Endeavors / Beautiful French text translated into English
« on: April 22, 2008, 10:49:30 pm »
Hi everyone I'm a French fan and I'm new here. I wrote a text in French and then I translated it into English. It's about Ireland...
So here it is:

Une bouteille à la mer

Depuis la toute première fois que mes yeux se sont posés sur toi, tu as amené la joie dans mon cœur. Jamais je n'avais vu quelque chose d'aussi beau, cette émeraude parsemée de joyaux colorés sur cette mer calme. Ce ciel gris, ces collines vertes: tout était comme je l'avais imaginé, et pourtant si neuf. J'avais peur, je ne parlais pas ta langue, mais ton sourire, le bleu de tes yeux m'ont réconfortée.
Ces jours passés avec toi, je ne les ai jamais oubliés. Dès le moment où je t'ai quittée, tu me manquais, j'étais seule.
Alors, juste pour te revoir, j'ai volé par-delà la mer, et ce fut meilleur encore que dans mes rêves. Rieuse malgré tes larmes, lumineuse sous tes habits gris: un ange tombé du ciel, posé sur la mer. Je n'avais plus si peur de toi alors, et j'ai pu mieux t'entrevoir. Tu m'as réchauffé le cœur, tu m'as entraînée dans ta tourmente, mais surtout, tu as chanté pour moi. Jamais je n'avais entendu plus belle musique, mélancolique et enjouée, si fragile, si puissante. Mais je savais que j'allais de nouveau te quitter.
Toute une année, tu m'as manqué. Ta musique dans les oreilles, je traversais ma vie comme on traverse une nuit. Mais je savais qu'un jour, je te reverrais.
Alors je suis revenue te voir. Mais je ne comprenais plus si bien, avais-je oublié ta langue? Tes collines n'étaient plus si vertes, ton ciel était trop gris, le bleu de tes yeux même me semblait plus terne. Pourquoi m'as-tu renvoyée chez moi, pourquoi donc m'as-tu blessée? J'ai tant pleuré, je ne savais même plus si je t'aimais.
Mais une nuit, tu as de nouveau chanté pour moi, de nouveau, tu m'as enchantée. Je n'ai jamais rien entendu de si doux que ta voix! J'aime tant être si loin, si près de toi.
Ta tourmente, tes larmes, tu les oublies dans ta joie. Tu sais si bien égayer ta grisaille de tes parures colorées, et ton émeraude, je t'en supplie, ne les laisse pas la ternir! Je veux entendre ta voix apaiser mes nuits, je veux te jouer pour égayer mes jours, je veux te retrouver.

Je veux t'aimer


English translation

Message in a bottle

From the very first time I blessed my eyes on you, you brought joy into my heart. I had never seen anything so beautiful, this emerald sparkled with jewels amid this calm sea. This grey sky, those green rolling hills: this scenery was both so old and so new to me. I was so afraid, I didn't speak your language, but your smile and the blue in your eyes welcomed me a hundred thousand times.
I have never forgotten the days I spent with you. From the moment I left you, I missed you all along, I was alone.
So I flew across the sea just to see you again, and it was even better than in my dreams. Laughing in spite of your tears, glittering underneath your grey clothes - an angel fallen from the sky, set on the sea. I was not so afraid of you any longer, and I caught a better glimpse of you. You warmed my heart, you carried me away, dancing in your ceíli, and, above all, I heard your voice calling me. I had never heard such a beautiful music, melancholy and joyful, so fragile, so mighty. But I knew I would leave you once again.
I missed you a whole year. With your music in my ears, I went through my life as one goes through the night. But I knew someday I would see you again.
So I came back. But I couldn't understand so well. Had I lost your language? Your hills were not so green, your sky was too grey, even the blue in your eyes seemed dull to me. Why have you sent me back home, why have you injured me? I have cried for so long, I didn't even know if I loved you.
Still some night you sang for me again, once again, you thrilled me. I have never heard anything as sweet as your voice, I swear to you. I love being so close, so far away from you.
Your storms, your tears, you drown them in your joy of life. You know so well how to cheer your dullness up with your vivid finery, and I beg you, don't let them spoil your emerald! I want to hear your voice to pass my nights away, I want to play you to cheer my days up, I want to come back to you.

I want to love you.



I'd really really love to know what you guys think about it!

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / easiset song?
« on: April 20, 2008, 11:37:48 pm »
I play a thousand miles, ordinary day, white houses, nolita fairytale and hands on me.

The easiest one to me is ordinary day.
I find Nolita fairytale and White houses bridges difficult. It always goes wrong somewhere even when I don't sing at the same time.

Have one of you tried to sing "Nolita fairytale"? I find it hard.

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Favourite Music Video?
« on: April 20, 2008, 11:34:42 pm »
I love white houses because of the dancing  :razz:

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Introduce Yourself / Hi I'm Tiphaine
« on: April 20, 2008, 10:53:13 pm »
Hey I'm 20 and I live in Nantes, on the West coast of France (another French fan :razz:)
I discovered Vanessa when I heard "a thousand miles" on the radio. I just love it because I love pop music and I've played the piano since I'm a child. I just love playing and singing her songs, and I find her so pretty!  :D

I also love Ireland and all the celtic stuff, and needless to say I love speaking English  :razz:

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