⚜️⚜️⚜️French Immersion⚜️⚜️⚜️

[TheMrBurns]

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.

 

[ashesatwork]

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.

 

[lacandy]

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...

 

[TheMrBurns]

gooood golly i Had to stop listening. fantastic.

Aw, thank you.

Tres bien! J’adore le francais! Je n’parle pas vein, mais he peuve lire et comprend come ci come ca

Bravo! You should record yourself saying it too though

 

[numeniusa]

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...

 

[TheMrBurns]

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...

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 !

 

[lacandy]

Aw, thank you.



Bravo! You should record yourself saying it too though

And autocorrect changed a lot of that! Damn it! I guess Apple doesn’t want me writing in French...

 

[TheMrBurns]

And autocorrect changed a lot of that! Damn it! I guess Apple doesn’t want me writing in French...

C'est la vie

 

[Sexybritches69]

Bonjour TheMrBurns

 

[TheMrBurns]

Bonjour TheMrBurns

Bonjour la belle

 

[janeyl]

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...

 

[TheMrBurns]

So someone once told me I could read this in French and it would sound sexy. Any guesses what I'm reading?

https://vocaroo.com/i/s0FuWPQWkwf8

 

[Phosphene]

Back of your shampoo bottle? Tresemme?

 

[Phosphene]

No, styling product maybe. Very sexy produit

 

[Polranny]

Tant pis!
That's French for aunt's gone to the lavatory!

 

[TheMrBurns]

Back of your shampoo bottle? Tresemme?

Ding ding ding... Will have to make it harder next time

 

[Deprived_in_AZ]

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. You sound very friendly though so I'm sure I have nothing to fear!

 

[Polranny]

Re Quebecois: plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

 

[TheMrBurns]

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. 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.

 

[Deprived_in_AZ]

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.

https://youtu.be/A7aKxslnrBQ

Nothing wrong with being unique. Keeps things interesting.

 

[Tedfkats]

Subscribed.

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!

 

[TheMrBurns]

Subscribed.

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!

Ça me fait plaisir!

 

[numeniusa]

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 !

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?

 

[TheMrBurns]

More random French. Can you guess what the hell I'm talking about?

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1YzKMW9S8h5

 

[TheMrBurns]

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.