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Paroles 5 EN – Jacques Brel with ‘Ne me quitte pas’

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Oh dear, poor old Jacques. A genius, passed away far too young, who wrote and performed his chansons struggling with life, drink and being Belgian. In the video accompanying this podcast he performs the deeply tragic chanson ‘Ne me quitte pas’ in his typical intense way, while the camera ruthlessly captures his desperation, moving in … Read more

Paroles 2: ‘Sur ma vie’ by Charles Aznavour (learn French words with a song)

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Before listening to the podcast above, please play the video below, while reading the lyrics in French and English underneath it. Let it play a couple of times and listen carefully to his pronunciation of the individual words. Once you know the song and its meaning, my commentary will be much more interesting. In the … Read more

Paroles 1:… ‘Paroles’ by Dalida (podcast)

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Before listening to the podcast, please watch the video below, while reading the lyrics in French and English underneath it. Once you know the song and its meaning, the lesson in the podcast will be much more interesting and effective.

In this first lesson, we will use a song with a fitting name: Paroles… words and promises. The singer is the Egyptian born Italian and nationalized French singer ‘Dalida’. She was enormously popular in the seventies but had a tragic life, ending in suicide in the mid-eighties. In this song we also hear the voice of Alain Delon, a very famous French actor born in 1935 who now lives in Switzerland. Smooth talker Alain is trying to seduce her, but she’s not having it. She knows that although he tries to woo her with romantic talk, it is just words and empty promises: paroles.

Paroles
Dalida, Alain Delon

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Selectra helps you set up your energy and internet contracts for free!

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Selectra compares energy suppliers, internet providers, mobile operators, insurers and banks to help you reduce your bills. This is all entirely free for you. Of course they get a commission for signing you up, but because they are such a big company, they can negotiate the best prices for you. Selectra is an excellent tool … Read more

Immogo back online

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  During one week – from 10-18 march 2021 – our site has been offline as a result of a big fire in the OVH Cloud server facility in Strassbourg. Fortunately, Immogo was not in the 25% of the servers that were entirely destroyed. We apologise for the inconvenience and hope that from now on … Read more

Yahoo adresses are often blocked

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Information requests of house hunters who use a @yahoo mail return address often do not make it to the seller. This is because the sellers Gmail account does not accept mail messages from Yahoo clients. There has been too much spam. Or maybe Gmail just wants to discourage people to use Yahoo (a monopolist can … Read more

Immogo now more than 5 million unique visitors

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Things have been going well at Immogo lately. More and more visitors are coming to our site. In the graph below you can see that after a leaner period  we are now returning to figures from our heydays, in 2015. This is mainly because we are investing heavily in our presence on social media. Many … Read more

Leggett brokers getting on my nerves

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Even though it clearly says on our website that professionals in real estate are not allowed to contact our sellers, every once in a while there are those who obviously don’t give a damn. Today, one of the infamous Leggett agents contacts three of my sellers with the same spiel: “Hello, Can I mandate your … Read more

Apartment 49 Travessa de Cedofeita, Porto, Portugal – the story of a rental failure

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     We rented an apartment on 49 Travessa de Cedofeita in Porto, Portugal, and lost a lot of money because the owner, MARCELO EDUARDO DE AGUIAR FERREIRA, refused to give our money back when we were forced to move out. What happened? Let me tell you. Bottom line, I think, is we were too optimistic. We thought … Read more