sur le forum nous discutons en langue originale sur les articles de vocable: Anglais, Espagnol et Allemand

Good idea Muriel!
 
You subscribed to Vocable. I did in the past but no longer. I don't know if the version I knew looks like the present one.
 
I guess Vocable is a very good tool to improve English, please could you write a few words about the benefits of this way to make progress?
Thanks!

Hallo Muriel!
Diese Zeitschrift ist wirklich sehr interessant und auch vielseitig. Ich werde sie sehr gerne weiter empfehlen.

MurielB a écrit:Hi Gérard
With vocable you can read American and English newspapers in Original Version. It is easy because the difficult words are translated into French. You quickly improve you language skills in that way and it is so interesting to understand the world from Anglo-Saxon view-points.

I understand that Vocable is a useful tool for native French-speakers to help them improve their language skills in English by reading American and English newspapers "in the original" (dans le texte).  I'm not a native French-speaker, so I don't feel useful to get "difficult words" translated into French. Anyway, as a professional translator, I've got my own translation tools. Besides, I'm having my regular e-mail contacts and I'm used to surfing every day on all radio frequencies and Internet TV sites to listen to and watch the news and cultural programmes broadcasting from all countries in the world: Youtube, Mike's Radio World, Multilingual Books... offer a tremendous scale of choices. And it's all free! So why should I pay for services I can get free of charge elsewhere?

Look out! Understanding the world from Anglo-Saxon view-points is not necessarily a better approach than stupidly swallowing anything told by your own national media. Beware of Big Brother! Wherever you go, you are overwhelmed by a load of crap, commercials and ideological brainwash. As a polyglot, you'd better make a mix-and-match, surf the Net and try to form your own opinion about what's really happening in the world.

Philippe-Henri

To Muriel

As far as «sharing» and «friendship» is concerned, I correspond by e-mail with friends in different languages and different countries, among which Australia, U.S.A., Holland, Germany, Poland, Urugay and even… France. Thus, it’s not «Me and the world», it’s «We and the world». By and large, we share, the same interests (mainly science, philosophy, sociology, religion, history, geopolitics, law and literature, linguistics, music, visual arts…), although we don’t necessarily share our views on particular topics. Currently, we are discussing the hot item of global warming, CO2 emission, renewable energy, sustainable development and so on.

I too would be glad to converse with you and other people on the Forum about what I read, but apart from you, Gérard and Rémy, there is a very poor response. On the other hand, I should point out − at the risk of disappointing you − that I don’t read newspapers because I don’t give a toss about politics, financial scandals, sport, celebrities, stock exchange, the weather and criminal cases. I only read non-fiction as well as scientific books and magazines for the layman (literature de vulgarisation scientifique).

Philippe-Henri

I used to read Vocable ( German ) when I was a teenager ( so not really that long ago ) and it was good for me, because at that time, my skills were not that good to read Der Spiegel or other good German paper ( because for me, Bild is like The Sun over here ), so with this help I was able to read more things in German, instead of opening my dictionary thousands times while trying to read Der Spiegel. Now, I can read it without any problem and Vocable was a part of motivation.
But Philippe-Henri has a point, it is easy to reach learning resources ( such as international radios, papers, etc. ) in order to improve language skills. But like tons, Vocable is an alternative for those who might not have internet for example ( even if it's just a few, I suppose ).

I hope your wish will be granted ! With all your hard work ( I always appreciated it and you were so nice when I came to the cafe for the first time ! ), you deserve this good ad.
I do not need Vocable anymore, but sometimes, it might be interesting to buy, because there can be some interesting things and ads for example. But there's not Vocable here, or I'm mistaken. Although, I'd rather write here and exchange with everyone, because it can be fun sometimes and we can learn new things, even if sometimes it does not deal about our language skills. Well, in few words, keep up the good work Muriel, you can be proud of this forum and the polyglot cafe in Calais !

Oh, thank you very much ! But I did not sing great, I think... I hope that if there is such event again, I'll be around at that time.
Everyone was kind with me, I enjoyed speaking with you all, but the adventure isn't over, I'll see you again, sooner or later !