You have the privilege of visiting your husband’s family in France during All Saints Day. You are already very excited about being in France, finally meeting his family, and being able to use your French language skills first-hand! Now, you are going to celebrate an authentic French holiday with the entire French side of his family-in France! You are not sure exactly what to expect, but your husband’s mother explains in French that you should dress nicely, get a lot of sleep the night before, and be prepared to talk a lot in French! Oh yeah, she also mentioned something in French you think you might have misunderstood. She told you in French they have a long list of family that has passed away with whom they want to visit. Did you understand that right?
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7 Responses to “Culture Class Lesson #4 - Your Husband Never Mentioned Meeting That Side of the French Family!”
Wednesday at 6:30 pm
How does your family celebrate either All Saints Day or the Day of the Dead?
Wednesday at 9:59 pm
My family doesn’t do anything special, but the celebration here is similar to that on France. People often visit the cemeteries and bring flowers to the dead.
Thursday at 1:26 am
Remind our audience, where is “here”?
(really it could be anywhere or maybe overthere … ? )
Thursday at 1:55 am
Here is Spain, of course! Where else?
Thursday at 2:56 am
I have seen pictures in the newspaper of how one Latin American country celebrates the Day of the Dead: they wear costumes of skeletons and vampires. It looks like how the Americans celebrate Halloween on the night of October 31st. People dress up as witches, skeletons, vampires and a whole lot of other things, but the mood is very different. It started out as a fun activity for children, but now the adults get into it more than the children. The costumes that I enjoyed seeing the most were a man wearing a disposable diaper, a man dressed up in a gay S&M costume, and a man wearing a male Hawaiian hula dancer’s attire which has no underwear. Quand il fait du vent, on voit les fesses.
Do people in France dress up in costumes?
Friday at 1:22 am
Lol Munia! Of course, I should have known! Nos vemos!
Friday at 1:29 am
Hi Careyxxx
They do even though carnival lost our interest or at least where I am from (Strasbourg). Halloween took over and adults celebrate it mainly in restaurants or bars where special evening are organized and many people are dressed up.
I also remember when I was “au collège” (which is junior high) we use to go to class around carnival dressed up just for fun.
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