DarkAngelBGE Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 (all in French)Anyone know any good sites that provide you with help to:* describe characters in French* understand the plot in French* summarize the plot in French* interpret the plot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akya Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 not yet...but I will search Pas encore, mais je vais chercher en passant...c Nouvelles et pas Novellesin english...Novel...in french Nouvelle...seems weird...like news but it's like that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 Nouvelles (Novels) and Nouvelles (News) have related meanings in French. In English, the Novel concept extends to the French concept of "Roman". But in French, Nouvelle kept the narrow meaning it used to have, in litterature : "a small account of something that occured". In one way, it became the litterature "Nouvelle", which was to artistically and shortly describ any event, while in the other way, it described a small account of a real story, leading to the News.In English, they didn't translate Novel, because they probably only took the concept. But for News, they probably went one with the same Idea as in French : "what is new". Relate to the French expression : "Tu as des nouvelles de..." (What's new about...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akya Posted August 10, 2004 Report Share Posted August 10, 2004 thanks for the long explanation Yiuel but well now that they know...the title of this thread should be edited Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufinwe Posted August 13, 2004 Report Share Posted August 13, 2004 (Well, usually "Nouvelle" as a literary work is "short story" in English."Novel" and "Nouvelle" are quite mistaking."Novel" is "Roman" ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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