AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE (French Song Vocabulary, FSV #2) is a slow & easy song for French beginners to learn. This French children’s lullaby is catchy and a great way to start expanding your vocabulary. It has been sung for centuries and also holds a surprising Guinness World Record for being high-tech of its own era. (*Post updated Mar 3, 2020)
Feature image altered from Image by benchyb/Deposit Photos
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- A) FSV #2 Video & Lyrics
- B) Word List 1
- *Trivia & More
- C) Review Question
- D) Downloads
- E) Sneak Peek Word
Au Clair de la Lune’s Guiness world record…???
TRUE or FALSE?
A recording of this French children’s song AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE holds the record for the oldest recorded human voice.
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[su_icon icon=”icon: youtube-play” background=”#2FA0CA” size=”32″ shape_size=”15″ text_size=”26″ color=”#ffffff” ]A) FSV #2 Video & Lyrics[/su_icon]
Watch the music video and see if you can fill in the Video Word Blanks below.
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AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE
Video Word Blanks
Au (1) ____ de la (2) ____ , mon ami Pierrot.
(3)_____ – moi ta (4)_____. Pour (5)_____ un mot.
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Learn some of the words from the song with the Word Map & Word Table below.
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AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE
Word Table Preview
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Notes: 1) Scroll horizontally, if all table columns are not visible. 2) LINK* This column shows the DICTIONARY-LOOK-UP word & a link to an online dictionary entry. 3) (* ) This is the translation of the conjugated verb.
| # | WORD | LINK* | DEFINITION | GRAMMAR | NOTES | |
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| 1 | CLAIR | [su_icon icon="icon: external-link-square" background="#aa1801" size="12" shape_size="4" color="#ffffff" margin="0px 5px 0px 0px" url="http://www.wordreference.com/fren/clair"][/su_icon] | Light color | nm | It can also be an adjective meaning "Bright, light, clear". | |
| 2 | LUNE | [su_icon icon="icon: external-link-square" background="#aa1801" size="12" shape_size="4" color="#ffffff" margin="0px 5px 0px 0px" url="http://www.wordreference.com/fren/lune"][/su_icon] | Moon | nf | --- | |
| ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
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Q) True or False? A recording of the French folk song AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE holds the record for the oldest recorded human voice.
Photo: www.guinnessworldrecords.com
A) True. A recording of the French folk song AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE holds the record for the oldest recorded human voice.
Article by Merrill Fabry, Photo: Universal History Archive/Getty Images
Recently in 2008, researchers in Paris have discovered a recording of the French folk song AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE which dates even farther back to 1860. The ten-second fragment of this French song recorded by inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville (France) used a phonautograph (shown in picture) to make the oldest recorded human voice. (If anybody is surprised by this, I’m with you. I grew up back when we learned that the first human voice recording was of “Mary Had a Little Lamb” by Thomas Edison in 1877. So this was a total eye-opener for me! You learn something new everyday….^^)
[su_icon icon=”icon: star” background=”#2FA0CA” size=”32″ shape_size=”15″ text_size=”26″ color=”#ffffff” ]C) REVIEW QUESTION [/su_icon]
Use the clues below to guess which word from the word list is the Review Word in the article & blank (1). Can you also guess the Bonus word in blank (a)?
AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE
Review Question
Article by HIBAPRESS
- Review Word (1) means “Bright” and completes the blank in the article.
- Bonus Word (a) means “Dark” and is the opposite of Review Word (1).
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AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE
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FVV#24 BRÛLE 
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[su_icon icon=”icon: binoculars” background=”#2FA0CA” size=”32″ shape_size=”15″ text_size=”26″ color=”#ffffff” ]E) Sneak Peek Word [/su_icon]
Here is a sneak peek of a vocabulary word from the next FSV blog post song TOP 50 FRENCH VERBS PART 1 (FSV #3). Can you guess the vocabulary word in the blank?
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Sneak Peek Word
Article by Margaux Baralon of Europe 1
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