In France, this game is called Le facteur n’est pas passé (The Mailman Didn’t Pass By) and, rather than tapping the top of the head of whoever is ‘it,’ you drop a handkerchief on them! Image Credit: Mama LisaĬheck Mama Lisa’s fantastic site for full rules and more information:Īu claire de lune is quite obviously a very well-known French nursery rhyme.
Many countries around the world have variants of Duck Duck Goose. Perfect for choosing in between that pain au chocolat or the croissant aux amandes 😉 Image Credit: Boldomaticĭuck Duck Goose – Le facteur n’est pas passé Just follow the same rules as Eenie Meenie Miney Mo.
La feuille recouvre la pierre et le puitsĭans le puits tombent la pierre et les ciseaux Image Credit: Canal Blog Rock and Scissors fall down into the Puits. You shape your hand as if you were holding a bottle of water Puits is only defeated by Paper as it lays on top of the opening. Just to be difficult, the French had to throw a wrench in Rock Paper Scissors by adding ‘Puits’ – the pit. Rock Paper Scissors – Pierre-Feuille-Ciseaux-Puits And since the French don’t like to talk about personal information when meeting people, it’s essential to be able to hold conversations about typically French experiences.Ĭlick the links after each word game or rhyme for more resources! Nursery rhymes seem like a silly thing to learn as an advanced student of French, but these are part of the collective pool of knowledge all French speakers share. We started this off with the French Mnemonics posts on the blog – it’s about transferring your knowledge over to its closest French equivalencies to recreate common French experiences that would have shaped you should you have grown up in France. To help figure all this out, it’s great to step back in time and recast your common American experiences into French. How does your personality translate across language and culture to be expressed in French as a fully realized person? Would you use as much slang? Would your sense of humor be different? Would you articulate in the same was as you do in English? Bref, what would you be like if you grew up in French? if they grew up speaking French as their native language. When learning a second language at an advanced level, it’s important to find your own style of expression one of my goals as a French tutor is helping students to figure out how they would sound, what they would say, the things they would do, etc.
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