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Today I set out to write an intelligent and interesting post for the blog, but then saw this video (via Miss Expatria), and realised that anything I wrote could never compete with Capucine and her “popotamus that is allergic to magic”.

Not only is the story charming, but I’m simply jealous of the way someone her age gracefully dances through the pluperfect reflexive verbs (“ils s’étaient perdus”) and the literary narrative past tense (“il décida”). These are aspects of grammar I struggled with well into university years.  Oh, to be a native speaker!