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Well, I'm new here so I want to greet everyone:

HI EVERYONE !...

As you can see on my little biography, I'm french (so I apologize in advance for all the mistakes...) .

Guillaume

Bienvenidos and have fun posting.

Howdy G.P.

bonjour

Very good yerssot! lol I only understand a bit in reading,a bit more when it's spoken and suck at writing!

Don't worry, It'll be OK. I'll improve my english.It's important nowadays...

you only fail when you stop trying

I couldn't agree more

unfortunatly, it's not my quote

ok, but seeing that you use it to enhance your wisdom (or madness ? ), it's great

oh! definitly madness

welcome to the forums G.P., hope you pass your high school diploma thing. gl.

Welcome and hi
The only phrases I know in French are (NO SPELLING!):
Je m'appelle Estelle (my RL name)
Je sui nourvouz (I'm nervous)
Je ne veux pas travallier (from the song) (I don't wanna work)
Oui
Bonjour

Thanks. These sentences are absolutely right , except 'I'm nervous ' => Je suis nerveuse
As you said, the spelling doesn't matter... I'm really impressed (I couldn't say the same in greek, for example). I only "speak" french & english and "understand" german & italian

The most amazing thing with the song which includes the lyrics "Je ne veux pas travailler..." is that the band isn't even french.

I think I can't realize but it seems that french is a not so easy language to learn...

Thanks everyone for your welcoming me kindly !

the problem is with the gender of the words: le and la I think

To determine the gender ?

and to remember it later on

Don't worry...There are still buds of mine who make gender mistakes (after 14 years of learning-The shame of it !)

There are even, Yerssot, words that have a different gender depending on whether they are singular or not.

Ex: Amour (love) => masculine & singular
Amours => feminine & plural

then we haven't even started talking about the adjectives

Yeah but it's like german, you know, when you have understnd the gender, the number and how do substantives work, the adjectives are a piece of cake...well, ok, let's just slightly easier

ah, but I can't speak german well either

german is hard. french is hard. why arent all languages simple...like english

All latin (i think thats how it said in english) laguages are difficult to learn. To many variables in the verbs, genders , words that are writen the same way but pronounced differently mean many different things! lol the lits goes on.

oh, but english is easy ... for brits

I have the problem that my language has pieces of french and english in it, so you think ... hmm, should be the same word in french: NOPE! is not!

lol English is easy yers! Its very simple! The same thing happens to me in spanish, its like same words are so similar that you assume others are 2! Well nope! Same goes for italian!

lol well the easiest language I know is ancient japanese

so, we all agree that every language is difficult?

I think portuguese is easy! started speaking without going to school!!!

the basics then

lol i conjugated (sp) verbs! before starting school!

You just have to get the knack... When you learn 2 or 3 different languages, learn other become easier (I studied latin too)
Obviously I hope I won't have to learn a dozen languages...

What makes all languages difficult is the fact that they reflect people's mind. (So when you look at some languages, you may think that this is a nation of fools...maybe I am )

the more you learn the more annoying it gets

lol had to learn french, english and german in school and engish was the easiest. german was cool but since i dont really see any german movies and dont use the language i kinda forgot about it. And ,no offence G.P., but never liked french. english is easier because of the movies. it helps. i knew english way before i started learning in school.

if you watch french movies all the time, french is easier, you're right on that one kes

I watch tv series in french sometimes but i'm not learning it anymore. Havent been for 4years! Thats why i say i understand it ok. dont speak it very well because i dont like making the accent.

accent? which accent?

french accent. pronounce the words like they do. funny i can tell the difference, no matter how good the accent is, from the portuguese and other forgneirs (sp),lets say, speaking english for exemple. its very distinct (sp).

Don't worry , I'm broad minded




He's right. Yesterday evening I watched two french movies while I was reading the thread named "Crushes". I've easily understood

Kes, Maybe if you wasn't obliged to learn french or if you had a crush with a french guy (who knows ?), you may have liked it... (Same thing could be told about every other language...)

doubt you can have a crush on a british guy

I've always wondered how the foreigners considered the french accent ...

It must be awful !*frightened* what tv series ?

Very snob! lol just kiding. yeh maybe if i didn't have to leearn it, or if my teachers hadn't been so lame!

Their not french. Its m6, the channel, you guys should use subtitles! basacly the x-files! i'm such a fan i even watch it in french! lol

i like brits! i think the english language is best in its natural form! just like portuguese from portugal is better than from brazil!

kes said that, not me

what did i say?

watching/watched french series

well american series with french actors doing the voices! I used to watch an german series actually i think its from austria, Rex! a police dog. i think that was is name.

Sorry, yerssot, it's a quoting lapse

Kes, the foreign TV series subtitled are rather rare, nowadays...
You can only find them on the cable/satellite networks.

One of my buds recently told me that in France, we've got one of the best system of french-acctors-doing-the-voices. I don't know if it can reassure you ...

lol yeh all over europe that is done! i think people are just to lazy to read the subtitles! but yeh french aren't that bad! just lame to see it like that. they tried that here, the station got trashed by the public. the problem is the jokes. you have to change them and well thats lame!

That's what makes you very brave (to watch tv series in french ) on M6 (and I'm not kidding)

lol not brave! an x-files fanatic! the funny thing is i got the episodes on tape

yes, there's a serie named Rex
we always subtitle things here

I think thats the way it should be done. I think people shouldn't mass with the original!

yeah, a lot of jokes get lost otherwise
I never read the subtitles, I just hear what they say, much better

me to!

...But on some other channels we can choose whether we want to watch it in french, subtitled, or in the original language...That's pretty cool

which channels are that?

lucky you

lots of channels in france?

How many channels do you get yers?

have no idea! our tv can get 35, but we have more channels though, so haen't counted them

In the noos network you can choose the channels you want, I 've 45 (including 12 international channels & some useless ones). But there are 108 channels among which you can choose (including packs of 4,5,or 6 cinema channels)

are the cinema channels any good?

Yeah, it's alright

My cable gets like 50! Blah! It does have a really good movie channel. I mean recent movies though they repeated quite a bit!

english is my first language. what is french for ... hmm then? see, its unnecessary.

with foxtel you get about 5 or 6 movie channels,3 music channels, a few cartoons and a few doco channels. something likr 4 sports channels, a few pay per view...

I'm glad to see that many people here understand french ( and use it a little ) I want especially to thank all of you, who have made an effort to speak some sentences in french, although it is not their mother tongue...
Hello Corran, and thank you !

woohoo! that would be (I hope) too!

Kinda late to comment on that... but:
They are right? Really? Woha, I typed the spelling in random!
The same in Greek, hmm, "My name is Stella" is "To onoma mou ine Stella" or "Me lene Stella". See, now you know something

It isn't French? Really?

No, it is an easy language to learn. Easier than German, at least

stella artois?

Stella Artois ????



What ?

Merveilleusement. (Marvellously)

Kes, I wanna really thank you for your warm welcome and your wonderful efforts to speak my own language.

Ps: that makes sense!

beer!!!

Yeah, I understood, but i mean why is this beer here ?

because it gets into everything?

almost kes

Moi aussi

Here comes the sad moment : as I told you at the beginning of the post, I have an exam coming (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday), so I have to work on it a little.
*sad*I'll be back on wednesday... I'll miss you all

See you soon !

Guillaume

hey! I have exams too, but I'm still here!

Oh gonna miss you G.P. Hey dont listen to yers is a bad influence!
Did I actually get any of that right?

Oh ok. It is a mistake. It changes the pronounciation of the word. But if it's just that it wasn't so bad!

Cool, all prefer Stella Artois! Keep up the advertising

"My home is where my stella is"

Your home is where your Stella ios brewed.

that's another way to put it

they actually say it in italian, but I'm not sure about the writing

frenchie