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[spirou]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

I'm also french and live in Strasbourg in France.
Only few people are able to speak french in the academic way, and I believe most of these persons are foreigners. With the sms's communication more and more people in France become unable to write or speak french correctly (not only the french academic language), I think that's a shame and that's not something we can pe proud of.

j'aime bien ton blouson, passes le moi" ^^

this sentence is grammatically correct but should be write it like this : J'aime bien ton blouson, passe le moi !" (there's no "s" at the end of passe)

roth, in french we only use implicit almost like english speaking people will use in their mother tongue and Japanese isa lot more implicit than french . Moreover do you know what "avide" means ? I think the word you should use is "espiègle" or a synonym or you should add words after it to explain which "avid side we should have".

Is this sentence from you or somebody else ?

Pour finir, le tout en français mes chers !!

There's a very important mistake, the way it's written it doesn't mean anything. Do you want to write : Pour finir le "tout" en français m'est cher ?

I hope i didn't make to much mistakes in english.

 

[akasuna no imax]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

i make this mistake only to show what don't do ^^...
and it don't takes "s" in the end 'cause it's an order

when you say
give it to me -> donne le moi (no "s")
or
eat -> mange (underlisten you eat -> tu mange, but no s .. cause an order ^^)

spirou > j'habite à mulhouse ^^ c'est fou comme c'est petit le web

 

[spirou]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

As far as i remember, even if it's an order there's the "s" at the end of "tu manges". It only disapears when it's in the imperative form without the subject.

Et c'est clair, le web est petit.

 

[akasuna no imax]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

yeah it's true, "tu manges" takes a 's' but "mange" doesn't take one..
i'm so happy to see grammatical french's rules are so easy

 

[Gold Knight]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

Haha, thanks spirou and roth!

Good luck with exams, Maggeus.  

 

[darklide]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

Yo guys
French is real easy
i can tell
Lol
I come from a country named maurirtius there, a teen like me has to know at least three languages...English, French and Creole(our mother tongue)
And i find french easier to speak than english

C'est vraiment facile comme sujet. Tu peux me croire

So if anyone needs help for french, just PM me and i will give my MSN, so i can help you

 

[roth]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

Pour finir, le tout en français mes chers !!

There's a very important mistake, the way it's written it doesn't mean anything. Do you want to write : Pour finir le "tout" en français m'est cher ?
I hope i didn't make to much mistakes in english.

Well it depend on what i mean, grammatically it is not that "french", but as a real "strasbourgeois" (suis né là-bas) u must understand it.
"Pour finir, le tout en français mes chers"
- Pour finir -> il n'y a rien a redire là dessus je pense.
- le "tout" -> le tout, tout le texte qui suit quoi
- "mes chers" -> le "mes" possessif, "mes chers" vous êtes mes chers à moi, donc possessif et non "m'est chers" .
Hope to be understable

 

[spirou]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

Now i understand but if you have written "Pour finir en français, mes chers" or "Pour conclure en français, mes chers" or even "Pour finir le tout en français, mes chers" i would have understand immediatelly.

 

[njt]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

wow I had no idea soooo many people spoke french here .
and back in the day when I took it at school, I thought "heh, when will I EVER use this?!" and thus my motivation was blah-. My French class in Kansas was really good but VERY hard. When I moved to Utah, I went from being a semi good speaker in my class, to best . Just goes to show that Hard= Good sometimes

 

[MaggeuS]

[Study] French

Okay, let's start with the : "i'm-new-with-french-i-want-to-go-to-paris-but-i-don't-want-to-look-like-an-idiot
-in-front-of-all-these-fuckin'-frenches".

Basical expressions :
"My name is [YOURNAME]" ---> "Mon nom est [YOURNAME]"
"I am [NUMBER] years old" ---> " J'ai [NUMBER] ans "
"I live in Paris for 6 years" ---> " Je vis à Paris depuis 6 ans "
"I like chocolate" ---> " J'aime le chocolat "
" Where is Disneyland ? " " In Marne-La-Vallée " ( don't tell me you never ask a french that if you went to Paris !! ) ---> " Où se trouve Disneyland ? " " A Marne-La-Vallée ".
" Where is the Eiffel tower ? " ---> "Où est la tour Eiffel ?"

When you want to go somewhere in Paris, the best way is to use the Underground or the RER ( it's the same ... ). When you want to ask a ticket, they always say : I don't understand English, or if they are really noob with English, " Je ne comprends pas " ( I don't understand ) OR " Je ne parle pas Anglais " ( I don't speak english ).
Just say : " Je veux un ticket ( pronounce : TIKé ) pour aller à [station you want to go] "
that means : " Je veux un ticket pour aller à [station] ".

Mmm i'll think about another expressions later... So i'll update it ( i'll try as often as i can ! )

 

[Zenith]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

French is really tough for me coz i cant figure out how to pronounce those words properly

 

[Omolara]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

French is not a very difficult language, if you wanna learn it. If you speak any roman language, it's pretty easy to get the pronunciation. It won't be completely right, but you may get the gist of it.

Vowel sounds:
a - ah as in father
i - ee as in peanut
u - oo as in
e - eugh
o - o

If you know japanese or spanish vowels they're all the same except for "e"

 

[bebong]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

Hmmm...mmmmmm French looks like very difficult man, all of the words are like hard to pronounciate for me!!! OMGzOMGz everything is sooo complicated.... But maybe after you try it is easy.... maybe??

 

[Akasun]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

French is my first language. English in my second. Although I seem to be better at English than French.

 

[Neofabien-sama]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

wouaw! pas de chance le francais est super dur a apprendre
moi jessai l'allemand... bah c'est encore pire...

 

[Omolara]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

French is my minor, but I took a brief break from it to begin learning Japanese. I'm going to be taking Elementary Japanese 2 and Advanced French Composition next semester. I must be crazy. I may take French literature instead if it seems to much for me.

 

[spactaa]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

I'm french, and I'm not that good at it lol.But it's quite hard I agree.
My english is wors (t.Then, my japanese is way worst.Finally I learned spanish for 5 years, and I can't make a correct sentence.If you got any questions...

 

[spactaa]

Re: French, Basical expressions :

Lol, yeah, Ratp (metro/underground/tuber) employees aren't that good in English indeed. Here in France, we usually begin English classes (or German) at 11/12.But in the same class the levels are very different, my pal here had the exact same professors, still he sucks really bad.

 

[Anax]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

For someone that had some French at high school (mandatory) and also took some French lessons (once a week for around a year) I really suck at speaking it, though I do understand a thing or two when reading it. Too bad the French don't have a neuter gender... Anyway, this post if here to provide some trivia!

The "vous de politesse" of the French was passed on to the Greeks as well, though I don't really know as of when. The Greek language has a documented history of some 3.500 years, so compared to that it's only recently that we acquired the "vous de politesse". In my very humble opinion it is hypocritic and should be used, as we completely lack the cultural background to justify its use. A common funny case stemming from this is talking to the Christian God or Jesus Christ (when praying) in the first person and to various priests of high status in the plural (vous de politesse)! Makes you wonder what society places higher...

Hope you found that interesting...

 

[Omolara]

Re: French : a hard langage [ Part 1, and more i hope ]

I never knew that about praying in French Anax. Wow. Maybe it can be justified since you are supposed to have a close personal relationship with God...I guess that works. heh