2018/03/29 22:09:53
Vilovilo
Beepster
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.

La chose la plus difficile en francais ,ce sont sont tous ces mots qui sont au masculin ou au féminin ,on ne fait pas ça en anglais,
I think it is what you meant ....
True your language is more straightforward but my guitar is " ma guitare" she is a girl and my amp is " mon ampli" he is a man( normal for this testoteronic tool ... )
Well I admit that we need ten pages to say what could be told in three words ,but it is fun to play around with ideas and feelings and I admit I like to speak french though I imagine it is a nightmare to learn it if you didn't approached it in an affective way.
Again good fun and a little bit of pride to see you all muse around with french....
Cheers.
2018/03/29 22:21:24
Beepster
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.
 
 
 
2018/03/29 22:41:26
Beepster
Vilovilo
Beepster
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.

La chose la plus difficile en francais ,ce sont sont tous ces mots qui sont au masculin ou au féminin ,on ne fait pas ça en anglais,
I think it is what you meant ....
True your language is more straightforward but my guitar is " ma guitare" she is a girl and my amp is " mon ampli" he is a man( normal for this testoteronic tool ... )
Well I admit that we need ten pages to say what could be told in three words ,but it is fun to play around with ideas and feelings and I admit I like to speak french though I imagine it is a nightmare to learn it if you didn't approached it in an affective way.
Again good fun and a little bit of pride to see you all muse around with french....
Cheers.



Well, French is one of the romance languages is it not? I just rejected it when I was young because I was raised in an English speaking household until I became school aged and then they dropped me into a full French Catholic school... and I had NO freaking clue what was being said. I did pick it up but it was a real problem for a little 4-7 year old Beepster. Then they tossed me into "French Immersion" public school which was better but all the history and geography was in French... which again caused problems (and we still weren't speaking French in the home either).
 
FINALLY I got tossed into full on anglo public school but by that time I pretty much thought every adult around me was a complete bungling idiot.
 
And they really were.
2018/03/29 23:45:06
Mitch_I
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.
2018/03/30 00:12:02
Beepster
Huh, didn't know Romanian was a part of that group of dialects but yeah... I kind of glean Italian and (to a lesser extent) Portuguese because of my rudimentary Frenchiness.
 
That's kind of cool. Don't know when, how or where I might be exposed to enough Romanian to catch the basic drift but now I'm going to try to seperate it from the slavic/germanic languages... if I can actually know when/if I'm actually listening to Romanian.
 
How about Hungarian?
2018/03/30 00:14:09
Beepster
Wow... it's like right in the name.
 
Rome
 
Romance
 
Romanian
 
/is also an etymology buff
 
2018/03/30 01:18:21
57Gregy
I know French toast.
And French kisses.
Unfortunately, I haven't had either in a while. 
2018/03/30 13:54:42
sharke
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. 
2018/03/30 14:21:05
bayoubill
Beeps you clearly haven't knowledge of the Sanchez brothers of which I closely resemble Guillermo Sanchez. I repeat
the name Sanchez . I Am clearly of Bapu decent
 
2018/03/30 15:23:52
Mesh
57Gregy
I know French toast.
And French kisses.
Unfortunately, I haven't had either in a while. 


Try some French fries instead.
 
HTH. 
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