"Se prendre un vent"
- “To take a wind”
To be ignored, to be turned down.
“Je voulais le séduire, alors je me suis accoudée au comptoir du bar dans ma plus belle robe. J’ai pris le plus gros vent de toute ma vie quand il est passé à côté de moi.”
“I wanted to seduce him, so I leaned against the club’s counter while wearing my prettiest dress. I’ve never been ignored as blatantly and completely, then when he passed by me.”
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François Bard, French painter.
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Je peux passer une annonce? C'est juste pour dire que je suis étudiante (en langues) sur Angers et que je cherche une ou un coloc pour l'année prochaine (erasmus ou pas d'ailleurs, mais erasmus ça serait cool). Voilà, voilà, bon week-end :)
Roommate wanted in Angers, France!!
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Hi Em! French is my major at uni, but I'm really struggling. I'm only getting 65-75% because my high school teachers were terrible, so I'm basically teaching myself grammar while scraping through C1 french! I feel so dumb :( I'm thinking of heading to the Alliance Française de Lyon for a month of intensive study - will that help my understanding of grammar/improve my oral confidence, or am I utterly screwed? xx
Any kind of intensive study is helpful! The thing to really learn fast is to emerge yourself in the language and the culture for a while, so I think this Alliance Française can be really great.
Is there someone around that went to Alliance Française? Any feedback to help this lady out? Thanks!
I go to Alliance Française in Atlanta and it has helped my French SO quickly. I speak, read, and write so much better than I did one year ago. I highly recommend it.
Thanks!!
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Anonymous asked :
I feel really bad now for asking about proofreading :( I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to or wanna offend you or anyone else :/ Like seriously I feel so bad and I'm so sorry!
omg no, seriously, don’t feel bad at all! You didn’t offend me AT ALL, seriously! The thing with the anon thing is that we don’t know who is talking, hence I tend to answer as if I was talking to all my followers at the same, followers with good intentions and others who just want me to do their homework. I couldn’t know what “kind” of followers you are, I’m truly sorry if you felt attacked or anything, I really didn’t mean to :(
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More power to you for charging. I totally understand why you charge people and I think you are doing a great job of defending yourself. It takes a lot of time to proofread and with the amount of effort that it seems that you put into it, people should pay for the quality work that is being done.
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J'en arrive presque à essayer de trouver une question à propos d'un pays que j'habite pour que tu me répondes par un gif de santana...
Me gusta.
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I agree, proofreading is an actual real life profession, do people not realise that? And your rates are much lower than a professional's.
Yeah.. When I see some fanart artists charging AT LEAST 40€ for the simpliest drawing and that my main price is less than 10€… And even, I wouldn’t mind charging less since I’m charging just to avoid bitchy people but people never told me I was too expensive/too cheap, I have no feedback at all.
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Anonymous asked :
Just a show of support: you are absolutely right to charge for your time and expertise. Asking to be paid for your work is not only fair; it is also a feminist act (since so much of what women do is unpaid and undervalued). Your services are valuable, and you needn't be sorry for asking others to recognize that value. :)
<3
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Anonymous asked :
Would you be willing to check over really short bits of writing, not to perfect anything but just to make sure everything made sense and wasn't offensive? Totally ok if you say no but I wanted to ask!!
I’m really, really, really sorry but I’m gonna refuse for the reasons I told before. People were really bitchy with me and I really don’t want to take that risk again. I hope you understand.
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Anonymous asked :
Would you ever read someone's paper just to read it and not to proofread it?
No, because if I start doing it for one person, all French students will send me their paper and I hate discriminating (meaning, reading some people’s paper and not other just because I don’t want to > Or I do all of them, or I do absolutely none)
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Anonymous asked :
I just wondered why you charge people for proof reading. Obviously you spend a lot of time updating the blog, so if people are willing to pay for the service, why not. But don't you feel slightly as though you are taking money off people, for something you can easily do? If this sounded angry, it wasn't meant to :)
Well, when I started the blog, I used to proofread everything people were sending me, but people (like 90%) behaved like I was a loser making their homework instead of them. They were very sufficient and at some point, it didn’t help to keep me motivated to update the blog because I felt like people were there just because I was doing their homework. It was so bad that I literally stopped proofreading because I was disgusted of doing it. The 10% left were really cool people, really willing to actually learn from their mistakes, and proofreading for them was really interesting because it truly helped them. One of them literally begged me to pay me so I can start proofreading again, and it appeared that charging people was maybe the key to avoid proofreading for people that didn’t care about my work and keep doing it for people who care and specifically want me to help them. Because proofreading is tough work, it always takes me at least an hour to do it because I really want it perfect so you really learn + the time I spend explaining the mistakes/answering the several questions people have over the work. In all, if people weren’t assholes sometimes, I’d still do it for free ;)
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Anonymous asked :
Hi im Annie and il be coming up to my gcse French exam soon. I really really want to get a good grade! I was wondering if it would be a problem if i sent you stuff to translate? I mean I don't know how I'd repay you, it would just be a massive massive favour!! :-) xx
I can proofread if you want, you have the prices on the proofreading page of the blog.
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Anonymous asked :
Merci! And again, you French sure know how to make stellar bread!
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