{"id":18767,"date":"2013-01-23T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=18767"},"modified":"2013-01-23T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T19:48:23","slug":"are-you-fluent-in-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/are-you-fluent-in-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Fluent in French?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re fluent in French, holla at me in the comments, because I&#8217;d love to get a good translation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madeinjoaillerie.fr\/2013\/01\/le-collier-a-secret-juana-de-wendy-brandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Made in Joaillerie&#8217;s post on my ruby-and-gold Juana peekaboo skull locket<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18768\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/thursday-book-club-juana-la-loca\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18768\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18768   \" alt=\"Front view.\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Juana_Heart_pink_M__50079_std.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Juana_Heart_pink_M__50079_std.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Juana_Heart_pink_M__50079_std-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Juana_Heart_pink_M__50079_std-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18768\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front view. Click to read about my inspiration.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;ve already used <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/search-engine-self-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poodle Translate<\/a> so I get the gist of the story, but those computerized results aren&#8217;t very elegant.\u00a0 I&#8217;m unusually interested in getting a smoother translation of the entire post because I feel Made in Joaillerie really gets me: Even without Poodle Translate, my limited knowledge of French was enough for me to understand the first words: &#8220;Toujours fascin\u00e9 par l\u2019univers <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/fou\" target=\"_blank\">fou<\/a> de Wendy Brandes &#8230;&#8221; Yes, I do have a crazy universe! I also like the way my locket&#8217;s hidden Juana skull is described as romantic, Gothic and alien. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18769\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Juana-Peekaboo-Skull-Necklace-%252d-Ruby\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18769\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18769\" alt=\"Juana_Heart_pink_A1__79399_zoom\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Juana_Heart_pink_A1__79399_zoom.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Juana_Heart_pink_A1__79399_zoom.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Juana_Heart_pink_A1__79399_zoom-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Juana_Heart_pink_A1__79399_zoom-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the locket. Click to see on my website.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">It&#8217;s so nice to be understood. Thanks, Made in Joaillerie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madeinjoaillerie.fr\/2013\/01\/le-collier-a-secret-juana-de-wendy-brandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK HERE FOR THE STORY<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/demicouture.ca\/2013\/01\/22\/loving-geek-chic-rings-including-a-hashtag-one-by-wendy-brandes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Demi Couture for blogging about my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes diffusion line<\/a>, including my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=Hashtag-Ring\" target=\"_blank\">hashtag ring<\/a>. No translation needed there!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED TO ADD: See the translation from &#8220;G&#8221; in the comments. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re fluent in French, holla at me in the comments, because I&#8217;d love to get a good translation of Made in Joaillerie&#8217;s post on my ruby-and-gold Juana peekaboo skull locket! Of course, I&#8217;ve already used Poodle Translate so I get the gist of the story, but those computerized results aren&#8217;t very elegant.\u00a0 I&#8217;m unusually&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/are-you-fluent-in-french\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,44,43,13,575],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blogs-and-bloggers","8":"category-lockets","9":"category-my-designs","10":"category-necklaces","11":"category-skulls","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18767"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18788,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18767\/revisions\/18788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}