Learn French the natural way - Le corbeau et le renard d'après une fable de Jean de La Fontaine

[@photographybygeorge1]

The way you teach French is amazing!! Great job. Thank you.

[@sgapodaca]

Merci beaucoup ! Je me souviens de cette fable. Je l'ai appris à l'école quand j'étais un petit enfant au Mexique.

[@gerrywass]

Scrolling through your video list this morning, my heart leapt as I recognized the title. About all that remains of 3 1/2 years of high school and college French is knowing that I had to memorize and recite the poem. I would subconsciously believe that I had no aptitude for foreign languages for the next 16 or 17 years, until I stumbled onto Spanish woven into music, and that belief disappeared. So I am reminded intensely of how many years I have fought to regain whatever French I had during those lost years of my life. On to the actual poem!

[@aliceayel]

I am so sorry this poem brings bad memory to you because it is actually a French staple and it is a really good one! I know some of it by heart and I love saying : " si votre ramage se rapporte à votre plumage " Well, I hope you now enjoy French again and you understand the poem too Gerry!

[@maggyaly85]

Coucou Alice Je sais cette fable quand je étais très petite, mais j'aime bien la te raconterai Merci à vous

[@karlayoung1]

I used an easy version of this earlier in the year with my level 1s, and now I can also use it with my level 2s in the past tense and with higher vocabulary. Merci Alice.

[@aliceayel]

Karla Young Fantastic Karla! Yes, the story should be comprehensible enough for all levels 😊 On Sunday, I will read the authentic fable!

[@cristinalipka5695]

Génial. J’apprécie d’entendre l’histoire et aussi les dessins parce que je suis une personne visuelle. C’était amusant pour moi de lire avec vous tout en apprenant un nouveau vocabulaire.

[@aliceayel]

Excellent Cristina 😍

[@skarp911]

eine schöne Fabel - und wieder mal leicht verständlich aufbereitet. Ich bin begeistert von Ihren Videos!

[@barbarabingham799]

great story beginning to understand how stories can help us acquire a language....

[@irenasmolik1127]

Bonjour. J,aime beaucoup t;ecouter. Merci pour raconter cette fable,

[@aliceayel]

Merci beaucoup Irena 🌹

[@m.v.170]

What a beautiful fable it is! I still remember it by heart (well translated into Russian then:) as we also learn it in school. Thank you!

[@ruthbelfi8281]

très bien madame, merci! on a beaucoup aimé - les élèves aiment bien la vidéo - c'est très utile à apprendre cette fable! à Agen!

[@aliceayel]

Merci Ruth! J'ai hâte de te voir à Agen aussi :-)

[@pavlosurzhenko4048]

It is actually also one of Aesop's fables, number 124 in the Parry Index. In the original the crow held a piece of meat, but in the Latin retelling by Phaedrus it was replaced with cheese. De La Fontaine seems to have based his version on Phaedrus. Excusez-moi de ne pas avoir écrit ce commentaire en français. Comprendre vos histoires est assez facile maintenant, mais écrire est encore difficile.

[@lindasimanski8191]

I used your story Chloe N'aime pas les Legumes with my French classes today, (as I'm teaching a unit on la nourriture) and they liked it!

[@aliceayel]

Merci Linda :-) I am glad your students enjoy the story. You can access the story script here : storiesfirst.org/greatstoryreadingproject/docs/chloe-naime-pas-les-legumes/

[@lindasimanski8191]

PS, Alice Ayel-Do you create these wonderful videos for Spanish teachers too? I am a Spanish teacher first and foremost, and this is my first year teaching French. If you do Spanish videos, I will be super, super happy!

[@aliceayel]

Linda, I do also teach Spanish but I don't do the videos in Spanish. Pablo Pankun Roman does CI Spanish videos kzbin.info/door/ouyFdE9-Lrjo3M_2idKq1Afeatured

[@lindasimanski8191]

oh, that's right, the Dreaming Spanish videos! Yes, I have used some of his videos! And you're right, they are amazing! Do you teach high school or middle school? I teach high school. Thank you again for your amazing videos!

[@aliceayel]

At the moment, I only teach grade 12 Spanish, I prepare them for the IB language B but in the past I have also taught middle school. I do also teach online one to one now, mostly adults. What about you?

[@kharoozy]

J'adore c'est istoire parce que est très intéressant! Le corbeau n'est pas content maintenant.

[@elianemelodeavendano5629]

Sim...fábula muito conhecida...

[@aravinthankeerujan8560]

Merci

[@nancyjanepeirce4562]

Très bon !

[@carmelomirabile2468]

Fantastique

[@edsanzo9131]

Salut. Le renard va-t-il maintenant voler un cidre, ou un Gamay du Beaujolais? Merci.

[@dejanjovanovic2298]

le corbeau... It is a raven.... i was trying for some half a minuit to figuire out what kind of bird is corbeau, untill you draw le fromage . then i recognised the story

[@dejanjovanovic2298]

non, le corbeau n'a laisse tombe le fromage dans le version de fable je sayais... Quelle version est original? :)

[@dejanjovanovic2298]

Alors, le corbeau est plus ruse que le renard. Ou sage... In my country people give name Luka to children, not becouse it associates to Saint Lucas, but becouse it associates to a word "lukav" which means " a tricky one", "ruse". " I want him to be as tricky as a fox" they say. ... Mais, le corbeau c'est un symbol du sagesse..... Oh, mon franglaise c'est ne pas tres mal ;)

[@mikearsen4580]

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