Friday, August 5, 2011

Premières Lectures ;)


HaHa... YES! am trying my best to pronounce my french properly. Well at least I know this short story -

"The Hen & Her Chicks"
La Poule Et Ses Poussins

Well I downloaded an e-book for beginners and found this one. It is a very old book published in 1869. An easy learning for me as it provides short and easy pieces in prose and verse with a complete vocabulary. I think! {Crikey moses!! Not so easy since am still picking up on my vocabs!} Lol. Do you want to know the story? You probably can read this to your kids as a bedtime story.


"Petits, venez; petits! petits! petits! petits!"
["Come little ones! Little one! Little one! Little one! Little one!]

Les voici qui viennent en trottinant devant leur mère.
[Here they come trotting off in front of their mother.]

Ils sont: un, deux, trois, quatre, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix.
[There are: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.]

Dix, ils y sont tous.
[Ten. They are all here.]

Tous bien alertes, bien gentils.
[All are very alert, that's nice.]

"Tenez, petits, mangez."
["Here little one, eat."]

Ils ont un mème duvet, un beau duvet jaune clair.
[They all have the same beautiful clear yellow fluffy feathers.]


Ce sont des frères et des soeurs; dix frères et soeurs du mème âge.
[They are brothers and sisters; ten brothers and sister with the same age.]

Quelle gentille petite famille!
[What a sweet little family!]

Voyez, comme ils se pressent, se poussent, se renversent, marchent les uns sur les autres.
[Look at them as they rush, push, roll over and walk over each other.]

"Mauvais frères! Pourquoi vous disputez? Il y a pour tous."
["Bad brothers! Why do you argue? There's enough for all."]

La mère les regardes, fait le tour de la bande, rappelle ceux qui s'ècartent.
[The mother watched, goes around the band, remembering those who stray.]

Oh! La bonne mère! Elle ne mange pas, elle.
[Oh! The good mother. She does not eat at all.]

Petits ègoïstes, laissez doc quelque chose pour votre mère!
[Little selfish, do leave something for your mother!]

Ils ne lui laissent rien!
[They left her with nothing!]

La poule s'èloigne en faisant entendre son gloussement.
[The hen moves away by making clucking sound.]

Les poussins la suivent.
[The chicks follow.]

Elle leur cherche de la nourriture.
[She is looking for food.]

Si elle n'en trouve pas, elle gratte la terre.
[If she cannot finds it, she will scratches the ground.]

D'es qu'elle a dècouvert queldue chose, elle appelle ses petits qui accourent aussitôt.
[Once she has discovered something, she will call her young ones who rush immediately.]

Par la pluie, par le froid, elle les rassemble sous ses ailes.
[When it rains and cold, she gathers them together under her wings.]

Quand elle aperçoit on oiseau de proie, elle expose sa vie pour les defendre.
[When she sees a prey, she exposes her life to defend them.]

Elle a beaucoup de courage, parce qu'elle a beaucoup d'amour.
[She has a lot of courage because she has lots of love.]

La fin.
[The end.]


My apology about the translation as it is basically based on my own understanding rather than proper translation from the web etc. Right!I am now moving to second reading. Let see if I ace it. **wink wink**




Love,
Lilly Ishak

No comments: