Ch 6 · Lesson 22

Song: Frère Jacques

Play it, read along word by word, then answer the questions. Every word is at your level - the song page teaches the few that are new.

Play the song and read along - tap any word you don't know. Then answer the questions underneath and the lesson completes itself.

Frère Jacques

Brother James

Lyrics

Jacques, Jacques,

- ? - ?

matines ! matines !

Din din . Din din .

New words in this song

Comprehension drill

3 questions on what you just read. Get one wrong and the story will show you where it says otherwise.

Words anonymous, 18th century, first printed around 1780; the melody is older still and 2014 archival research attributes it to Jean-Philippe Rameau (d. 1764). Transcribed from Girard's Rondes populaires enfantines, a 19th-century Paris songbook. Source text. Translation ours.

Open the full song page for the background to the song.

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