My French Adventure: Reading Le Clezio's Desert Day 2 - October 7

It took me sometime to blog again about what I have been reading.  I am currently reading Nobel Prize winner, Le Clezio's 'Desert' - the French version of course, and I hope to finish the book real soon. 

Well, it's a very descriptive style of writing and the characters being described are still walking on the desert.  I think the main character in this novel by Le Clezio, is the desert herself! Here are my French words for the day -

1. franchir - to cross

Du livre:  Ils avaient franchi les montagnes par le pas de Maider.

Mon phrase: C'est impossible de franchir des Alpes.

2.  mortel - fatal

Du livre: Leurs visages portaient la marque du terrible soleil, du froid mortel des nuits.

Mon phrase: La fièvre de dengue peut être mortel si ce n'est pas traité tout de suite.

3.  longiligne - lanky

Du livre: Certains d'entre eux etaient d'un noir presque rouge, grands et longilignes.

Mon phrase: Le garcon longiligne est mon fils.

Reading Le Clezio's Desert Day 1 - September 29

I have been studying French since 2008 and I am now in the stage where I can read books and newspapers.  To help me retain some of the vocabulary, I am now reading a novel by Nobel Prize winner, J.M.G. Le Clezio, entitled 'Desert, and everyday, as I read two pages of it, I will take note of some of the vocabulary I've learned. 

Here are three words I've chosen today -

1.  grommeler - to grumble, to snort

 From the book -   ' Les chameaux grommelaient, éternuaient.'

My own sentence:  'Les gens grommelaient mais ils pouvaient fait rien à cause de peur des représailles.'

2. éternuer - to sneeze

My own sentence: 'Jéternue quand il y a des allergènes dans l'environnement.'

3.  durcir - to harden

From the book - 'La  sécheresse avait durci leurs lèvres et leur langue.'

My own sentence: 'La terre a durci à cause du sécheresse.'

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