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Non, non, non et non! 

Understanding negatives is essential but it will become easy for you once you have played a few of the following games. The more you play,the more you learn!

The negatives Jigsaw Memory Spelling Word Web

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A perfect example of the use of one of the negatives, “ne ... rien”

 Listen to “Non, je ne regrette rien” !

 “Non, je ne regrette rien”is a French song written in 1956 which is best known through the recording made by French singer Edith Piaf in 10 November 1960. Its title translates literally as "No, I regret nothing", but is more often rendered simply as "No regrets". It was composed by Charles dumont, and its lyrics, describing the singer's defiant attitude towards the past, were written by Michel Vaucaire. Critic Steve Huey likens the song to Frank Sinatra's similarly unrepentant “My Way”,which was written in 1968.

Piaf dedicated her recording of the song to the French Foreign Legion. At the time of the recording, France was engaged in a military conflict, the Algerian War of Independence (1956–1962), and the Legion— who had backed a temporary putsch by the French military against the civilian leadership of Algeria— adopted the song when their resistance was broken in April 1961, singing it as they were ordered at gunpoint aboard evacuation vehicles. The song remains popular with the Legion, and is sung when they are on parade.

In the United Kingdom, the song was at one time associated with the former Conservative Party Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont, who is famously said to have sung it in the bath on the night of the country's withdrawal from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992— an event known as “Black Wednesday”. Lamont later quoted the song's title to sum up his political career.

 ( From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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