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Il y a le meilleur joueur du championnat allemand, le meilleur joueur du championnat français, meilleur buteur du championnat espagnol. Aujourd’hui, sur le papier, ils sont beaucoup plus forts. POGBA

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Dans une interview accordée à l’émission Rothen s’enflamme, qui sera diffusée ce vendredi 12 juin sur RMC, Paul Pogba estime que la génération actuelle de l’équipe de France est, sur le papier, plus forte qu’en 2018, année de la deuxième étoile tricolore.

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Mrs Tilley picks: Guy de Maupassant's short story La Nuit

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How to use negatives - ne ... pas - The negative form - Higher French Revision - BBC Bitesize

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Grammar explanations, examples and exercises, illustrated with armadillos

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Tex's French Grammar is the integral grammar component of Français Interactif, an online French course from the University of Texas at Austin. Français Interactif includes authentic, spoken French language via digital audio and video clips, a French grammar reference (Tex's French Grammar), self-correcting French grammar exercises, vocabulary and phonetics sections, Internet-based activities, comparative cultural polling, and an electronic workbook.

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The French translation of the first Harry Potter book, translated by Jean-François Ménard, was released October 9, 1998: Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (Gallimard).

Though the French language is constantly borrowing and adapting from English, translating made up English words presents its own unique challenge. To prove it, here's a list of some of the funniest and most interesting French translations of Harry Potter vocabulary. By no means is this a comprehensive list, but it might be enough to inspire you to order a French edition of the book and find out the rest of the translations for yourself.

The Magical World

Poudlard

Hogwarts. "Poudlard" comes from "pou-de-lard" which means "bacon lice." (Bacon lice, hog warts? Get it?)

Le Choixpeau magique

The sorting hat. The translation is "magical skin choice," which is disconcerting. It's also a play on words on "chapeau," the French word for hat.

Gryffondor

Gryffindor. Essentially the same.

Poufsouffle

Hufflepuff. Absolutely the best house name since it means "puff blow." The translator determined Poufsouffle to be the best translation because of the idea behind the name Hufflepuff - huff and puff.

Serdaigle

Ravenclaw. Surprisingly, "serdaigle" doesn't mean "raven claw," it means "eagle claw." In the book, the Ravenclaw mascot was changed to an eagle.

Serpentard

Slytherin. ("Serpent" is snake.)

Moldu

Muggle. It's a reference to "mou de bulbe" meaning "soft in the head."

Dragées surprises de Bertie Crochue

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans. "Dragée" is a pill or small candy coated with something.

Une baguette magique

This magical baguette is in fact a magic wand. The follow-up question truly is, how many more pages was the French edition of Harry Potter just because every time someone said the six-character (including spaces) word "a wand," the French book had to fit in the twenty-character word "une baguette magique"?

Le sortilège de Désarmement

Another term that got longer in French, the disarming spell is "the spell of disarmament," just as every other French spell is "the spell of [something]."

Le Terrier

The Burrow where the Weasleys live. This is particularly great since a terrier is a small dog... so, in English, the translation would indicate that Ron lives at a terrier (or is it in a terrier?).

Fourchelang

If you have this "fork tongue" then you speak parseltongue.

Le Magicobus

The Knight Bus. "Magico" is kind of a goofy version of "magique." (It's especially amusing to read it as magic-o-bus.)

Un détraqueur

A dementor. A "détraqueur " is something that makes things go wrong or break.

Pré-au-Lard

Hogsmead. "Pré-au-Lard" was chosen because it translates to "close to the lard" as in, "close to Poulard."

Bièraubeurre

Butterbeer. It translates as "beer with butter" ... how delicious.

La Marque des Ténèbres

The Dark Mark. A straight-forward translation, "the mark of darkness."

Les Mangemorts

Death Eaters. Another good ol' literal translation - "eat deaths."

The Room of Requirement. This one makes sense, it's a "room on demand."

Les Reliques de la Mort

The Deathly Hallows, or "the relics of death."

Characters

Many names stayed the same. Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Albus Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Rubeus Hagrid, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Cedric Diggory, Dudley Dursley, James and Lily Potter, all of thet Weasleys, and many more characters, all kept their original names.

Neville Londubat

Neville Longbottom. Think of it like "long-du-bas," or "long-in-the-bottom."

Drago Malefoy

Draco Malfoy. To understand the seemingly simple adjusted translation for this one, you have to know why J.K. Rowling chose Draco Malfoy. "Draco" comes from the latin word for dragon; shortening "le dragon," the word for dragon in French, makes "Drago." "Malfoy" comes from the old French "mal foy," meaning "mauvaise foi," or "bad faith." In French, it's "Malefoy."

Nick Quasi-Sans-Tête

Nearly Headless Nick. Very appropriate, "Nick Partially-Without-A-Head."

Professeur Chourave

Professor Sprout. A "chourave" is a kohlrabi, which is a type of wild cabbage.

Severus Rogue

Severus Snape. It's a great translation - could "Severus Rogue" be any more fitting? In French, "rogue" is not someone who makes their own rules, it's an old rare word meaning "arrogant" or "unpleasant."

Maugrey Fol-Oeil

Mad-Eye Moody. It's a reference to the verb "maugréer," meaning "to mumble." "Fol-Oeil" is like "crazy-eye." So in English, if you translated it back to English, his name would be more like Mumble Crazy-Eye.

Barty Crouch

Barty Croupton. And the son's name is Barty Croupton Junior. Honestly this one is funny just because it's one letter away from crouton.

Dolores Ombrage

Dolores Umbridge. This one actually is not inspired by the French word "ombre," meaning shadow. The translator chose "Ombrage" because of a typo on "Umbridge" in Newsweek.

Voldemort / Tom Marvolo Riddle

Saved the best for last. Voldemort stayed Voldemort because his name comes from the French "vol de mort" meaning "flight of death." (Generally, J.K. Rowling seemed to enjoy giving villains names with French roots: Voldemort, Draco Malfoy, Bellatrix Lestrange...) Voldemort's other names did have to change though. So "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named" became " Celui-Dont-On-Ne-Doit-Pas-Prononcer-Le-Nom" (he of which we should not pronounce the name). "You-Know-Who" became "Tu-Sais-Qui" (you know who). "The Dark Lord" became " le Seigneur des Ténèbres" (the lord of darkness).

Best of all, Tom Marvolo Riddle became Tom Elvis Jedusor. Elvis. ELVIS! The change was key, because in the third book Riddle explains that if you shuffle the letters of Tom Marvolo Riddle, you get "I am Lord Voldemort." You can't shuffle the letters of Tom Marvolo Riddle and get "Je suis Voldemort," but you can with Tom Elvis Jedusor. Because of the genius of the translator, the pun with Riddle's last name was not lost: Jedusor sounds like "jeu de sort," meaning a game of chances.

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The Best French Translations of "Harry Potter" Vocabulary

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The French translation of the first Harry Potter book, translated by Jean-François Ménard, was released October 9, 1998: Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers (Gallimard). Though the French language is constantly borrowing and adapting from English, translating made up English words presents its own unique challenge.

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Adventures on the Bookshelf is a popular blog for school students interested in studying French at university. It is run by Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and has received more than a quarter of a million hits in its first year, with readers in more than 100 countries.
In a guest post for Arts Blog, Dr Simon Kemp, whose research interests are in the French novel in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, explains the difficulty of translating the Harry Potter books into French.

'I know from my students that for many people wanting to have a first go at reading a book in a foreign language, translations of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels are the gateway to reading books in French.

They're a good place to start: if you're familiar with the stories already from the books or films in English, then you'll always have a rough idea what's going on if the language gets tricky, plus it's always entertaining to find out how a Crumple-Horned Snorkack or a Dirigible Plum comes out in a foreign language.

From the fourth Harry Potter book onwards, once the saga's French translator, Jean-François Ménard, was most definitely not translating the work of a little-known British children's author any more, his working routine was the same.

The publisher's paranoia about plot leaks meant that translators were refused advance access to the English original. Ménard's copy arrived on the day of publication of the English-language version. Two months later he would be expected to present the publishers with the French text to be rushed into print for millions of impatient francophone readers.

Every day of those two months would be spent translating J. K. Rowling's prose, starting at 6 a.m. and finishing at midnight, barring a long lunch-break to refresh his brain and a weekly trip to the physiotherapist to ward off writer's cramp.

Translating Harry Potter presents unusual challenges. What to do with the latiny riddle-language of Rowling's spells, which allows English-speaking readers to work out that wingardium leviosa implies 'wings' and 'levitation', or that the cruciatus curse will bring excruciating pain?

What to do with the names of people and places, with their hidden jokes and clues? Let's take a look at a few, so that we can appreciate what Ménard was up against. In the original, Hogwarts school is divided into the four houses, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin.

In Ménard's translation, L'École de Poudlard ('Poux-de-lard', or 'bacon lice') is divided into Gryffondor ('Gryffon d'or', or 'golden griffin'), Serdaigle ('serre d'aigle', or 'eagle talon'), Poufsouffle (which suggests 'à bout de souffle', or 'out of puff') and Serpentard (which contains the word serpent, meaning snake).

Some are quite different, presumably because literal translations of Hogwarts ('verrues de porc') and Ravenclaw ('serre de corbeau') are not as mellifluous, or as funny-sounding, in French as in English.

A little of the subtlety is lost from Slytherin, who are now bluntly linked to snakes, and even the name which stays the same, Gryffindor/Gryffondor, is different, since the French allusion in the original becomes a straightforward label in the translation.

The characters become an exotic mix of French and English names, with Dumbledore, Harry, Hermione and Ron remaining unchanged, but now finding themselves sharing classrooms with Neville Londubat ('long-du-bas', or 'long-in-the-bottom'), Severus Rogue ('haughty'), and Olivier Dubois, who has to be repatriated from his original identity as Oliver Wood to accommodate a gag about Professor McGonagall needing to 'borrow Wood', which Harry misunderstands as an implement for punishment.

This oddly franco-British establishment becomes odder still with the introduction of an actual French school of witchcraft, Beauxbatons, in the fourth book, leaving us wondering why the French-named students enrolled in Scotland. And talking of French names, Rowling's own liberal use of them gives the translator an extra headache.

Fleur Delacour may sound sophisticated to English ears, but to a French reader it means the rather more ordinary-sounding Yard Flower. Similarly, Voldemort transforms from a figure of fear and mystery to a comic-book villain when his name simply means 'Deathflight' (or 'Death-theft') to the reader of the translation.

And it would not escape the notice of the French audience that a surprising number of Rowling's bad guys have French names, such as Malfoy or Lestrange. Rowling perhaps meant them to sound like ancient, aristocratic Anglo-norman families. French readers who missed the implication might have felt a little hurt.

In a project fraught with difficulty, and scattered with no-win situations pitting sound against sense, or humour against consistency, Ménard pulls off a sterling job seven times in succession. I wonder how many French readers realize just how much Harry Potter à l'école des sorciers and its sequels owe, not just to J. K. Rowling, but to J.-F. Ménard as well?'
This blog was originally posted on Adventures on the Bookshelf. Subscribe here to receive updates from the blog.

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The challenge of translating Harry Potter into French

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Adventures on the Bookshelf is a popular blog for school students interested in studying French at university. It is run by Oxford's Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages and has received more than a quarter of a million hits in its first year, with readers in more than 100 countries.

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Je n'aime pas le vin italien. Je préfère le vin français

I don't like Italian wine. I prefer French wine.

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Ma matière préféré, c'est la chimie

My favourite subject is Chemistry

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J'adore dormir

I love to sleep

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I would like a bit of fish please

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Normalement je bois de l'eau

Normally I drink water

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Je m'en vais! A demain

I'm off! See you tomorrow

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My favourite subject is French

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J'adore manger des chips

I love eating crisps

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Quel beau cadeau! Merci beaucoup

What a lovely present! Thank you very much

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Je suis en colère

I am angry

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Sur la photo il y a un bâtiment

In the photo there is a building

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In Skegness there are wind turbines

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