Languages

Introduction

Avant quelques articles (voir plus bas), notamment sur la littérature et la poésie, quelques liens utiles:

Langue française

Langue anglaise

Wordreference
Synonyms on thesaurus.com
Grand dictionnaire canadien
Merriam-Webster (payant pour les mots rares! voir plus loin son “cousin” Webster online encyclopédique et gratuit)
Itsy-bitsy of English: writing, spelling improvements and prononciation guides.

Autres langues

Spanish Language
Chinese Characters and Culture
Nombreuses références linguistiques sur le site de la Maison des Langues, UPJV Amiens
Le très étonnant Webster’s online dictionary (with Multilingual Thesaurus Translation) ainsi que Lexilogos

Articles

What we learned from 5 million books
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A new great tool to explore our lexical culture: the ngram viewer. Have a look to the following video first:

How complex systems appear
(d/m/Y, H:i - lancelot - Tags: Big bang, Big History, Complex systems, Complexité, Complexity, Grande Histoire, réseaux sociaux, social networks, Systèmes complexes)

In a city such as New York alone, there are more than 10 billion distinct products or services being traded. How such a complex system can work? The story of the Universe in 17 minutes, to understand how complex systems … Continue reading →

Tricky French pronunciation
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Poems of Pablo Neruda
(d/m/Y, H:i - lancelot)

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Poems of Juan Ramón Jiménez
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Poems of William Shakespeare
(d/m/Y, H:i - lancelot)

William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616) Sonnets (1609) Pages correspond to the Livre de Poche edition, Bibliothèque Classique, bilingue, 1992. Poem XVIII, pp. 34-35 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake … Continue reading →

Correspondence between George Sand and Alfred de Musset
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Paul Verlaine’s poems
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Jacques Prevert’s poems
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OP’s poems
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Victor Hugo’s poems
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Chinese poems
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Japanese poems
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A few grams of gentleness in a brutes’ world
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Excerpts from Proust
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Excerpts from Wodehouse
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