Plan langues (1)

As part of this blog's goals – namely that of getting the whole world in contact with unknown languages – I suggest that you watch the video below. It's one of the numerous sketches written and played by Manu Thoreau for a programme named Faux Contact, a spoof based on the official Contact, a didactic program about road-traffic safety. Manu Thoreau imitated (and also exaggerated) Commandant De Nève's (the presenter) way of talking.

In the following extract, he explains in a pseudo (because full of unexisting words or words that don't make sense here) Walloon language how to place a spare wheel…



There's also a scene in a pseudo (because full of French near-words and absolutely ungrammatical) Flemish dialect…



Don't laugh: lots of French-speaking Belgians talk like that in Dutch and think they're doing it properly! (Morons.)

François Duval Is Talking To Us

When "sportive" car drivers can't control their car, everything goes pear-shaped. That's precisely what happened to our "champion" François Duval who, for no reasons, tries to explain what happened.

Click here to watch it. (I found this link on our English unit's blog, Germ@Namur, more precisely here. Note also that I've finally discovered the proper way to make links… After 99 blog posts…)

But why is he doing it in English? But why is he doing it in English? It's totally useless: not a single English-speaking person would be able to understand him. It would have been better that he speaks in French, and then to be subtitled in English…

But wait, who says that car champions like him are intelligent…?

Prison Bièsse

Parodies over Prison Break were predictable. But I admit that parodies in wallon de Liège was rather unexpected… For those of you who can't understand this peculiar dialect, well, try to learn it to understand the subtleties of it!

Star Wars in… Walloon?!?

Ah! YouTube! Never out of silly things like these famous scenes, dubbed in Walloon! It seems awkward, but this is a perfect translation of the original text—even if it's a little bit more humorous, but don't forget that the Walloon are cheerful and like laughing.
Scene I (from: Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back): I am your father = Dji so to pa


Here's an approximative transcription of the Walloon text:

Vador : Tu n'pou nin vayer vôye. Ni m'tchouk nîn. Dji'n vou nîn t'maquer. Luke, tu n'séé nîn co t'es un'as. Ti c'mînce to juss' ) save si-k-ti pou fê. Dimîn avou mi, et d'ja termin'rai ta formatiauuu. Et quand on s'ra tous les deu, (??????), et ce s'ra un'pay, del' nouvel galaxie.

Luke : Soula t'est pou'l'rovî !

Vador : Si seulmînt tu (???) lé nwèr côté del'fwess. Obi-Wan ni t'a rîn dit de c'qu'il est arrivé à ton poupa.

Luke : Ah d'ji'l'sais bien… Vo l'avez maqué to dreu…

Vador : Nauu. D'ji seu t'poupa.

Luke : Noo. Nauu. C'est nîn possip' ! C'est-s-t'une boûûte !

Vador : Puiske d'ji te'l'dis, d'ji va nîn fé l'bièss !

Luke : Noooo ! Nooooooooooooooon!

Vador : Luke, ti peux pitter l'emp'reur fou, il sééé bîn. C'est-s-crie. Va avou mi, et nous s'rons les plus fwèr di vîn l'galaxie… Comme i poupa et son p'tit gamîn.


Scene II (from Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope):


I'm gonna try and transcribe it, and put the original (English) version with it (so that you understand it…) later on (takes time, you know).

PS. It seems that I will not be able to post a picture and a comment on it: Blogger refuses so. Curious… I guess you gonna have to wait.