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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4680 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 25 of 70 08 January 2013 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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In that case it would be an implied comparison: "Is she always as amusing (as this/as she is right now)?"
In English, I myself probably wouldn't actually write "Is she always as amusing?" without anything further, because it doesn't really sound grammatically correct, though I might say it in conversation if I'm not being careful. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4680 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 26 of 70 08 January 2013 at 4:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A better English translation might be "Is she always THIS amusing?"
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| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4674 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 27 of 70 08 January 2013 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
A-ha. I guess it's the same thing in French (hopefully a native or more advanced student will confirm it). Thank you, geoffw :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 28 of 70 08 January 2013 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Awesome log :-) I'm looking forward to reading it till december
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| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4674 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 29 of 70 09 January 2013 at 1:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Glad you like it, Cavesa :-)
Assimil: Did lessons 36 and 37. New words: ouvreur (usher), ronfler (to snore), pourboire (tip), dormir vs s'endormir (to sleep vs to fall asleep). I also took dictation from lesson 6 (#7 is a revision unit, so it doesn't have any recording). I'm becoming a big fan of dictations. Today I noticed that facile and difficile always have a trailing `e', even in their masculine form. Also: un livre vs une livre (a book vs a pound). I found a few wordlists:A nice thing about the first two lists is that the words are grouped in categories. They are pretty basic words and I understand almost all of them, but if I want my conversation to be more interesting that that of a 4-year old child, I should make sure that they are part of my active vocabulary. Time to use an SRS? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5400 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh | Message 30 of 70 09 January 2013 at 1:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have no better explantion to offer : "Est-elle toujours aussi amusante (qu'en ce moment) ?" Nice log by the way ! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4680 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 31 of 70 09 January 2013 at 3:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not to suggest you shouldn't learn these words, especially if you dream of speaking like a native one day, but I really wouldn't worry too much about it. The life of a four-year-old is very different from the life of an adult, and the commonly-needed vocabulary of an adult is not simply an expansion on the commonly-used vocabulary of a small child, especially depending on the context you're discussing. I say learn whatever words you like, but don't expect this list to be the key to conversational proficiency. For example, while an American English-speaking child will definitely have good control over words like bellybutton, potty, and pee-pee, it's extraordinarily unlikely that you'd need these words, even passively, in a job interview. They're fairly unlikely to pop up at the bar / pub, either. (In fact, my computer automatically corrected "potty" to say "potter," thinking it was a mistake and not in the dictionary, even though it's one of the most common words used by 2- and 3-year-olds.) An interesting side effect of this difference shows up for people like me (with my German) who learn a language as a child, stop using it for years, and then try to pick it up again as adults. Not only did I not learn all the vocabulary my peers were learning as adolescents and young adults, but a good bit of my core vocabulary that I had mastered became far less useful, so that even after shaking of the rust, what used to classify me as a fluent and proficient speaker left me, at first, unable to express the simplest of "grown-up" sentences. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4674 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 32 of 70 10 January 2013 at 11:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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Heh, you're right, geoffw.
I didn't know the work `potty' in English; and now that I do, I don't think I'll use it that often. Merci par la confirmation, akkadboy. Assimil: Did lesson 38, which introduces the futur tense, and took dictation from #8. Dictations keep helping me to notice details: - Unlike in English, `adresse' is written with a single `d'. - `Pas grand-chose de bon'. Why `grand' and not `grande'? Now that I think of it, why `grand-mère' and not `grande-mère'? French in Action: I watched episode #6. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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