Dr James Holden

European. Proustian, Lisztian, Nerd.

French language learner.

To listen to and support my podcast on Proust's work - @proustianpaths - click the link below.

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

I'm pleased to announce that my book podcast @proustianpaths is now available on YouTube!

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#Proust #MarcelProust

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[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

@YWHelp Hi. Is the road closure still in place on Rotherham Road S71 at Cundy Cross, or has road now reopened?

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

@YWHelp Ok, so road closure in place until the 4th Sept (this Monday)?

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

@YWHelp Hi. It's not the general planned work, I don't think. The road was shut this morning at Cundy Cross junction and your website says fixing a burst water main.

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

@YWHelp ///insuffler.vociférer.lançant

Cundy Cross road junction shut this morning.

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

You can find me here, writing and interacting in French.

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[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

@FrenchHist Liszt playing in the mid 1830s.

[France Culture @franceculture]

Le 25 janvier 1882 naissait Virginia Woolf, femme d’avant-garde et l’une des plus grandes auteures du XXe siècle.

[Chris Kempshall (Gone to Bluesky) @ChrisKempshall]

I can imagine, and understand, that these strike dates will be greeted with a fair amount of shock, surprise, and concern from students and their parents. £9k a year on university fees is a lot. So I want to explain just how much these institutions value students. 1/

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

#GRIS #NintendoSwitch

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

What an incredibly gorgeous game #GRIS is! #NintendoSwitch

[Racing Club de Lens @RCLens]

𝐍𝐨𝐮𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞́𝐞, 𝐦𝐞̂𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐫𝐞́𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 🤩

Transcendant, le Racing renverse le leader de @ligue1ubereats dans son antre au terme d'une partition de grande classe ! Le RCL signe un 9e succès consécutif à domicile 💪

@RCLens 3⃣-1⃣ @PSG_inside

#RCLPSG

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

"There's more of gravy than of grave about you."

The Muppet Christmas Carol really is a brilliant film. Layers of metafiction, great songs, genuinely funny but also deadly serious when needed.

#Christmas #ChristmasCarol #Muppets

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

Je viens de publier mon deuxième article sur Journaly, qui s'intitule "Mon jeu vidéo préféré".

#langtwit #LanguageLearning #French #journaly #BreathOfTheWild #Zelda

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

Cette semaine je me suis inscrit sur la platforme Journaly car j'ai envie d'écrire les textes plus longs en français. Donc, si vous utilisez Journaly vous pouvez me suivre (et me corriger) là-bas. (Je suis James_H).

#langtwt #LanguageLearning #journaly #french

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

Cette semaine je me suis inscrit sur la platforme Journaly car j'ai envie d'écrire les textes plus longs en français. Donc, si vous utilisez Journaly vous pouvez me suivre (et me corriger) là-bas. (Je suis James_H).

#langtwt #LanguageLearning #journaly #french

[Proustian Paths Podcast @proustianpaths]

It's 100 years to the day since the death of the French writer Marcel Proust.

What better day to start your own journey through his work... join your audio tour guide for a slow walk through "In Search of Lost Time" now.

#Proust100 #MarcelProust #Proust

https://t.co/TUanTXqtKD

[Guardian Books @GuardianBooks]

Reading Proust aloud: ‘How can it be that deeply flawed and terrible humans have the capacity to create?’ https://t.co/OsGEf8IhFG

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

It's #nationalreadabookday today so I thought I'd share the book I've finished reading this afternoon... La Quête d'Ewilan tome 1: D'un monde à l'autre by Pierre Bottero.

Fast-paced stort telling with good world-building.

#French #YAFiction #LanguageLearning #langtwt

[Dr James Holden @CulturalWriter]

I decided about a year ago that my objective in my language learning journey would be to be able to play Dungeons and Dragons in #French.

Well, on Tuesday I played my first session. Yes, it was very difficult, but I did it! So now the objective changes again.

#DnD #langtwt