FSV #4: CE RÊVE BLEU (French Aladdin Theme Song) - French Cover Song

Learning new words through songs is one of the best ways to expand your vocabulary. Now, this may sound redundant, but Disney songs are great for learning any foreign language, including French. They are catchy and the accompanying videos really bring the meaning of the words to life. Hence, for this Vocabulary Set, we have chosen CE RÊVE BLEU (French Song Vocabulary, FSV #4), the French theme song of the ALADDIN Disney movie (the French “A Whole New World” song) Although the French version is not a direct translation of the original, it has a great variety of words that should be part of any beginner or novice French learner’s vocabulary.

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Table of Contents…

A) FSV #4 Video & Lyrics
B) Word List
*Trivia (Culture Note)
C) Review Question
D) Downloads
E) Sneak Peek Word

TRIVIA

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TRUE or FALSE? The Parisian (Metropolitan) French and Quebec French (Quebecois, Canadian French) languages have different accents, yet they are so similar that they both use the same French translation of the Aladdin Disney movie & theme song.

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A) FSV #4 Video & Lyrics

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B) Word List
Learn some of the words from the song with the Word Map & Word Table below.

A WORD TABLE is a table where each word is listed with its dictionary-look-up word (the form of the word that it is listed under in the dictionary), definition, grammatical parts of speech and other notes about the word.

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CE RÊVE BLEU
(Aladdin Theme Song in French)
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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
1	OFFRIR		To offer	vt-irr	---
...	...	...	...	...	...
3	SPLENDEURS	SPLENDEUR	Splendors	nfpl	---
...	...	...	...	...	...

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A WORD MAP is a visual diagram that organizes the words according to their relationship with each other. Words related to each other (ex: opposites, rhymes, similar conjugation patterns, etc…) are attached or connected to one another.

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CE RÊVE BLEU
(Aladdin Theme Song in French)
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Notes: 1) (* ) This is the translation of the conjugated verb.
2) Pink word boxes show the lyric vocabulary words.
3) Blue word boxes show Bonus words.
4) White word boxes attached to other word boxes (verbs, nouns, adjectives) show the various forms of the words they are attached to.
5) Bold font show dictionary-look-up words (The form of the word that it is listed under in the dictionary.)
6) Italics show feminine words.

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For a Sneak Peek of a vocabulary word from the next blog post song, A ON NE VIT QU’UNE FOIS (FSV #5) , check out the Sneak Peek below.

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TRIVIA (Culture Note)

Q) TRIVIA TRUE or FALSE? The Parisian (Metropolitan) French and Quebec French (Quebecois, Canadian French) languages have different accents, yet they are so similar that they both use the same French translation of the Aladdin Disney movie & theme song.

A: False. There are actually two French versions of the Aladdin Disney theme song. The one introduced in this blog post, CE RÊVE BLEU, is the version produced in France using the Parisian (Metropolitan) French language & artists. There is also a Quebec French (Quebecois, Canadian French) version of the Aladdin Disney theme song called UN NOUVEAU MONDE (video below) which was made in Quebec (Canada), featuring Quebec singers with different lyrics. The characteristics of Quebec language & culture are distinctly different from that of Parisian French, especially when it comes to movies & songs. Often times, movies & songs will be dubbed or translated with two different French versions, one with Quebec French (featuring Quebec actors & artists) and another with Parisian France.

For more on the differences between Parisian (Metropolitan) & Quebecois French…

Gives details about the language differences

Explains some of the history that made the languages evolve differently

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Compares the different versions of Disney songs (Article is in French)

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C) REVIEW QUESTION

Use the clues below to guess which word from the word list is the Review Word in the article blank & blank (1). Can you also guess the Bonus word in blank (a)?

CE RÊVE BLEU
(Aladdin Theme Song in French)
Review Question

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Review Word (1) means “Splendor” in the article and is used in its plural form in the song CE RÊVE BLEU (ALADDIN) .
Bonus Word (a) means “Odor, scent” and rhymes with Review Word (1).