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Le Boudin" (French pronunciation: [lə budɛ̃]), officially "Marche de la Légion Étrangère" (English "March of the Foreign Legion"), is the official march of the Foreign Legion. "Le Boudin" is a reference to boudin, a type of blood sausage or black pudding. "Le boudin" colloquially meant the gear (rolled up in a blanket) that used to be ...
Many words in the English vocabulary are of French origin, most coming from the Anglo-Norman spoken by the upper classes in England for several hundred years after the Norman Conquest, before the language settled into what became Modern English. English words of French origin, such as art, competition, force, money, and table are pronounced ...
ADIAC publishes a newspaper, Les Dépêches de Brazzaville. Originally published monthly, as demand grew it was published at greater frequency. In 2007 it became the first daily newspaper in the Republic of the Congo. [1] In 2017 ADIAC launched a second daily newspaper, Le Courrier de Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1]
English words of French origin should be distinguished from French words and expressions in English. Although French is mostly derived from Latin, important other word sources are Gaulish and some Germanic languages, especially Old Frankish. Since English is of Germanic origin, words that have entered English from French borrowings of Germanic ...
Pigasse wrote under the pseudonym of 'Favilla' for Les Echos from 1978 to 1984. [1] He is the author of five non-fiction books. He is the owner of ADIAC, a communications firm which publishes the daily newspaper Les Dépêches de Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo. [2] [3] He is friends with Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso. [2] [3]
Maréchal, nous voilà ! (French pronunciation: [maʁeʃal nu vwala]; "Marshal, here we are!") is a 1941 French song dedicated to Marshal Philippe Pétain.The lyrics were composed by André Montagard; its music was attributed to André Montagard and Charles Courtioux but actually plagiarized from a song composed for the 1933 musical La Margoton du battailon by Polish Jewish composer Kazimierz ...
Voice-over translation is an audiovisual translation [1] technique in which, unlike in dubbing, actor voices are recorded over the original audio track which can be heard in the background. This method of translation is most often used in documentaries and news reports to translate words of foreign-language interviewees in countries where ...
Word Lens was an augmented reality translation application from Quest Visual. [1] Word Lens used the built-in cameras on smartphones and similar devices to quickly scan and identify foreign text (such as that found in a sign or a menu), and then translated and displayed the words in another language on the device's display.