J'apprends le français

Votre pomplemousse est chat, oui?

J'avaiz les oiseaux dans mon qu'el que chose.

Beepster
J'avaiz les oiseaux dans mon qu'el que chose.

Comment sentent-ils?

Beagle
"omelete du fromage"

I believe that was "omelette au fromage" 

Parlay vous a hama hama is the pickup line I used as a teenager

Ça c'est bon Mesh! Je suis et swavay and deboner de tant de facons
 

Ciao tutti ( bon j'avoue ça commence mal mais :" salut tout le monde" c'est un peu lourd alors je préfère éviter ..)
C'est cool de vous voir vous amuser avec une langue que je connais pas trop mal...
Bon d'après moi le plus facile pour apprendre c'est d'avoir des parents francophones ,mais comme personne n'est parfait ,si c'est pas le cas ,le mieux c'est d'avoir une copine ou un copain francais quand on est ado...
Et si c'est toujours pas le cas ,là ça se gâte .....
Mais tout n'est pas perdu,comme c'est un forum de musiciens,les chansons sont un super moyen d'apprendre une langue, trouvez des chansons françaises qui vous plaisent ( les miennes sont super 😇😇), désolé ,c'était trop facile..) et apprenez les.
Personnellement ,c'est beaucoup comme ça que j'ai appris l'anglais .
Bon je traduirais pas ce post*
* I won't translate all that bull#*"..
Cheers.
Olivier.

Mitch_I
Here's a hint. Get a long list of false cognates and learn them. After that, your guesses about French words will be more reliable. Here are some examples:
 
"Chair" in French means "flesh" in English.
"Flèche" means "arrow."
"Actuel" means "current."
 
As far as pronunciation, most methods and teachers teach an artificial version of the pronunciation, which is really different from how French people really talk. If they're saying "Je ne sais pas" in four syllables, you'll have a hard time when you hear it in two syllables. (Same is true for English teaching BTW.)

That's why sites like FluentU are so helpful in learning a language. It features YouTube videos in the language you're learning, with interactive subtitles added. So you can watch things like commercials and news reports and read a translation. Biggest problem is learning in the classroom and feeling totally lost as soon as you hear a native speak. I was lucky to have spent some time in France as a kid though and picked up the general flow and pronunciation of the language, as well as many words that I never even saw the spelling of until years later.

Le (la?) chose qui est le plus dificile en Francais est toute les mot qui est feminin ou masculin.
 
On ne fait pas ca en Anglais.

I think I'm going to start reading billy's posts with a thiiiiiiick French/Cajun accent.
 
Would this be accurate Billy? I mean it would make sense whut wiff the "bayou" thing but I luuuurve that Cajun drawl.
 
In a totally manly and platonic way of course.
 
*nervously adjusts tie*
 
...
 
/is not wearing a tie

PS: IME the most comprehensible French accents are from Africa. Just very well enunciated and seemingly devoid of all the regional slang/colloquialisms Euro/Canucker/etc variants have built up.
 
I'm thinking because it's usually second language. Kind of like I can understand someone from India speaking English about a million times better than I can understand a Geordie or Cockney accent/dialect.
 
Meh... language fascinates me and I've been trying to compile a list of languages to learn before I kick it.
 
1) Well I could probably very easily get my conversational French up to speed and it's really the most immediately useful to me since it's Canada's official second language
 
2) I'm thinking Spanish because I can kind of already glean quite a bit of it from American TV/cinema and it's kind of similar to French (as far as I can tell but perhaps not as similar as Italian).
 
3) German. My stepmom's parents were from Germany (and my stepdad from Austria) so I already have a bit of a foundation there. It is supposedly a REALLY difficult language to become fully fluent in but it's also a gateway to other languages and if I can get my head around those other tongues (giggety) then it would be like a step up in linguistics profiency because then I want to....
 
4) Learn Cantonese and other eastern languages... which, if I managed to learn all that other stuff, would likely take me through to my eventual dirt nap.
 
 
 

Yes, French is a Romance language, like Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian. So if you learn one well, you have a big advantage learning one of the others. I'd suggest learning one really, really well before starting another one. Otherwise you can end up in confusion.
 
As far as the pain of learning the gender for every noun, it could be worse -- German and most other northern European languages have three. Just give up on the idea that the gender is related to the meaning of the word.

Wow... it's like right in the name.
 
Rome
 
Romance
 
Romanian
 
/is also an etymology buff
 

When I was a teenager I went to Turkey a few times and I made a friend out there about my own age. He spoke perfect English and he told me that he learned by renting American movies every weekend and following along with the Turkish subtitles. I think that's probably a great way to pick a language up. 
 
When I was a kid we had a few kid's TV shows that were European and dubbed (badly) into English. They should have just broadcast them with the subtitles, I'm sure the kids who watched them would end up learning. When I was 8 I watched an Austrian kid's TV adaptation of Heidi religiously because I had a crush on the girl who played her. If they'd broadcast it in its native German I'd probably speak German now. 

57Gregy
I know French toast.
And French kisses.
Unfortunately, I haven't had either in a while. 

Try some French fries instead.
 
HTH.