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)
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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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Learn some of the words from the song with the Word Map & Word Table below.
AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE
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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 | Light color | nm | It can also be an adjective meaning "Bright, light, clear". | ||
2 | LUNE | Moon | nf | --- | ||
... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
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.
A) True. A recording of the French folk song AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE holds the record for the oldest recorded human voice.
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….^^)
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
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