⚜️⚜️⚜️French Immersion⚜️⚜️⚜️

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⚜️⚜️⚜️French Immersion⚜️⚜️⚜️

To celebrate my 2,000th post I am starting my own thread in which I will immerse you in the French language. First with a lesson on how to speak it. Then with an aimless ramble about random French things. So to get things started:

Lesson 1: How to say "Hello, my name is", "Pleased to meet you.", "How are you?" and "I'm well, thank you."

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1nBF7oQQbBk

And a ramble about the 16th century French poet Pierre de Ronsard:

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1gwxSdBwaTA

Enjoy.
 
To celebrate my 2,000th post I am starting my own thread in which I will immerse you in the French language. First with a lesson on how to speak it. Then with an aimless ramble about random French things. So to get things started:

Lesson 1: How to say "Hello, my name is", "Pleased to meet you.", "How are you?" and "I'm well, thank you."

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1nBF7oQQbBk

And a ramble about the 16th century French poet Pierre de Ronsard:

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1gwxSdBwaTA

Enjoy.

gooood golly i Had to stop listening. fantastic.
 
Tres bien! J’adore le francais! Je n’parle pas bein, mais je peuve lire et comprend come ci come ca :)



EDIT to fix the autocorrects that my stupid phone made...
 
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French is one of those impossibly sexy languages. I understand it more than I can express myself in it, but it's a joy to hear.

A French lady once told me not to cycle on a particular road because it was dangerous, and directed me on a better route. Which doesn't sound sexy, but...

:devil:
 
French is one of those impossibly sexy languages. I understand it more than I can express myself in it, but it's a joy to hear.

A French lady once told me not to cycle on a particular road because it was dangerous, and directed me on a better route. Which doesn't sound sexy, but...

:devil:

Oh dear, I spend a lot of time on the phone speaking in French... So I guess to you I'd be a phone sex operator... I'll add it to my résumé ! :devil:
 
Speaking French to me is like Eric Morecombe playing the piano...I know the words but am not necessarily speaking them in the right order...:D
 
Alors, bon soir monsieur, je m'appelle Dee..... well not really but you can call me that. I learned in my travels that people in France will eagerly help you out and speak English when they realize that you're from out of town.. I remember hacking my way through Normandy with my high school French and being so proud of myself for getting it out in a way that I thought was damn near perfect, and then the guy turned to Mr Dee and spoke almost accent free English with him. Made me feel like an idiot! Haha! The Quebecois, however, will stick with French and not give an inch. We popped across the border a few times while living up in northern New England, and it was always, uhm, interesting. :D You sound very friendly though so I'm sure I have nothing to fear!
 
Alors, bon soir monsieur, je m'appelle Dee..... well not really but you can call me that. I learned in my travels that people in France will eagerly help you out and speak English when they realize that you're from out of town.. I remember hacking my way through Normandy with my high school French and being so proud of myself for getting it out in a way that I thought was damn near perfect, and then the guy turned to Mr Dee and spoke almost accent free English with him. Made me feel like an idiot! Haha! The Quebecois, however, will stick with French and not give an inch. We popped across the border a few times while living up in northern New England, and it was always, uhm, interesting. :D You sound very friendly though so I'm sure I have nothing to fear!

It's hard to explain Québec... But basically: "Qu'importe l'échantillon, le nombre de cons reste stable.". I used to live in the Townships so used to go to Vermont all the time.
 
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I used to be 100% bilingual. This will bring some good memories, provide a good refresher, and perhaps a voice recording or two.

Merci M. Burns!
 
Oh dear, I spend a lot of time on the phone speaking in French... So I guess to you I'd be a phone sex operator... I'll add it to my résumé ! :devil:

Depends what you were saying... Well, partially ;)

Can you tell us about different nationality's native French? I mean the French spoken in France, Canada, Belgium and so on - is it really different? Are there any difficulties in understanding each other?
 
Depends what you were saying... Well, partially ;)

Can you tell us about different nationality's native French? I mean the French spoken in France, Canada, Belgium and so on - is it really different? Are there any difficulties in understanding each other?

That is a very long story to tell. I will make part of it my ramble on Friday;) But, long story short, it's a lot more than national, there are many different dialects spoken in each country and that's beyond differences in word usage: in Quebec we say "se brosser les dents" in France they say "se laver les dents.". But I have met people who speak different dialects of French who can't understand each other... I had to translate from French to French in French.
 
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