Do you know the songs of the composer Poulenc? Are his songs suitable for leaning some french? What other songwriters are good for learning french i.e. that write songs with a lot of words?
Okay so I'm wondering how I would say my ethnicity in French. Let's say my ancestors are from antarctica. In English I would say I'm part black-antarctican, part white-antarctican, and part Chinese-antarctican.
This way basically shows your race but also your ethnicity, if that makes sense. Because if I just said I'm Chinese it might make people think I have recent ancestry from China, when I'm actually centuries removed from China. We are all antarcticans who've lived here for centuries and share a culture/language but we're different races and slightly different cultures and group histories. So in English the hyphen can denote this. Think African-American, French-Canadian, Afro-Cuban.
Obviously the hyphen can also mean that you have recent ties to that area, but if you're discussing already established diasporas people just understand. If I mention French-Canadians everyone know I mean Canadians with centuries-old French Heritage, not French people with canadian citizenship. That's actually super super complicated when you write it out lol.
Is there a way to talk about ethnicity in this way in French? Like could I say je suis chinoise-antarctique or would that sound weird? I'm Canadian for context but I'm learning metropolitan French. Any input is welcome!
Merci beaucoup!
ÉDIT: WE ARE NOT FROM ANTARCTICA THAT WAS AN EXAMPLE TO SHOW THE STRUCTURE!!
Pour donner un peu de contexte, c’est une princesse qui est très gentille mais elle n’a pas l’habitude des choses ordinaires. Moi je demande ça pour éviter de mal utiliser ou de mal interpréter le mot
On est bien d'accord que cette expression "on est dans de beaux/sales draps" veut dire qu'on est coincés, qu'on est au pétrin... bref que la situation est difficuile ou compliqué
Mais si je remplace "de" par "des", ça nous donne quelque chose comme "on est dans des beaux draps/draps sales"
ça change le sens de la phrase ? genre ça veut dire qu'on est littérallment dans des draps bien beaux esthétiquement parlant ?