Gallowglass
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Salute mes copains
Mais mon Francais est merde! |
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phil777
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Location: Montreal, Québec
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| Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| Dans ce cas, t'aurai mieux faire d'écrire : Mais mon français, c'est de la merde. (translates into : but my french, it is crap) =P |
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pree10shun
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| I understand but my french is broken |
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rmgh
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Location: Scotland
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| Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| Ok je parle mieux maintenent. N'hésites pas de me parles si tu veut. |
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Dingo7
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Parlez Vous Francais?...
I think that means "take your shirt off" ?
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rmgh
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NZaspiegirl016
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Age: 17
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Location: Somewhere in Aspergian New Zealand
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Bonjour, les gens. Je m'appelle Teri, j'ai 16 ans et j'ai parle francais pour environ 2 ans et demi.
@Dingo7: That (If you're talking about what you said) means "Do you speak French?"
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sMeow
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Age: 16
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Location: France
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Miaou. :> Que c'est moche comme onomatopée... c'est mieux en anglais... ;>
"Je parle Français depuis deux ans et demi" aurait été correct ;p
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phil777
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Je sais pas, on a un chat qui s'appelle Clovis, et il miaule vraiment en faisant mia-ou!
En japonais, c'est nyah! :3 |
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sMeow
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Yep, mais miaou, c'est pas très beau... Meow. :3
En Thaï, ça fait un équilibre, Miaw, c'est encore mieux. :>
Exact pour le chat Japonais, c'est de la que vient le Nyan Cat. ;>
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jc6chan
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Location: Waterloo, ON, Canada
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| Bonjour, je parle couramment l'anglais et le cantonais. Cantonais est un dialecte de chinois (J'étais né a Hong Kong). J'ai commencé d'apprendre le francais quand j'ai eu 9 ans. Le francais est mon troisième langue. |
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sMeow
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To say "I was born", it's better to say "Je suis né".
To say "I begun to learn French", it's "à apprendre le Français", not "d'apprendre le Français". I don't know if there's a real rule about that...
You must also say "quand j'avais 9 ans" or "quand j'étais âgé de 9 ans". Rules about... tenses ? in French may be hard to understand sometimes, I think... :/
Also, "Français" is masculine, but "Langue" is feminine, don't fall right into the trap ; so it's "ma troisième langue". :>
Sinon, c'est bien 
Mon frère a étudié le chinois l'année. Je crois qu'il a arrêté, car il n'avait plus le temps d'apprendre une nouvelle langue. Peut-être que j'essaierais d'apprendre cette langue aussi un jour ; pour l'instant, j'apprends le japonais. Je trouve les langues composées d'idéogrammes fascinantes.
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jc6chan
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Location: Waterloo, ON, Canada
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| sMeow wrote: | To say "I was born", it's better to say "Je suis né".
To say "I begun to learn French", it's "à apprendre le Français", not "d'apprendre le Français". I don't know if there's a real rule about that...
You must also say "quand j'avais 9 ans" or "quand j'étais âgé de 9 ans". Rules about... tenses ? in French may be hard to understand sometimes, I think... :/
Also, "Français" is masculine, but "Langue" is feminine, don't fall right into the trap ; so it's "ma troisième langue". :>
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Thanks for the tips!! 
As you can see, french is my third language but I am definitely not trilingual. I have little sense of how the grammar works. I live in Ontario, Canada. Unless you are in a french immersion curriculum at school, there is a good chance that someone who lives in Ontario do not even know the basics of french, just some random words (and I'm not even including immigrants from foreign countries who never learned french).
I see that you live in France so I would be quite surprised if you didn't know the french language really well LOL!! |
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phil777
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Actually, there are french speaking ontarians near the border with Quebec. ^.^; And well, besides that, there is supposed to be a french community in Manitoba as well near Winnipeg. The fact that french is also considered as an official language in Canada is basically because there's often a few francophone communities throughout the country (yes, even as far as BC, except the percentage is pretty low) and there are rules for teaching french in every province. =/
Basically, just keep in mind that french only has two genders, male and female, the neutral "it" is usually excluded or replaced by "il" (which is male, even then =/ )
Let's just say that speaking french pretty much opens up most of Europe to you though, because even if you don't speak spanish or catalan, the common roots are latin, so a few words generally filter through. The same can be said with english though, since we do share quite a number of words.
Odd anecdote, the verb "to toast" originally came from Old french and was taken by the English, yet it is not uncommon today to hear someone they want a "toast" (as in "je me fais une toast"). |
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jc6chan
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Location: Waterloo, ON, Canada
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Yes, there are French speaking communities across Canada, but they are really few in most provinces. Also, the core French curriculum is really easy, which can be a bad thing if you want to learn french. I guess thats why they have french immersion.
About genders, its weird how everytime a francophone happens to learn a new word that is a noun, they will need to learn, along with the word itself, the gender. But I guess there are some basic rules such as, words that end in -tion or -elle are always feminine (not sure if there are any exceptions). |
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