joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5471 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German
| Message 25 of 54 30 January 2011 at 1:53pm | IP Logged |
Hey, nice to see you had fun in Geneva! Buttons is right, though, you are pretty impressive when it comes to language learning, and your French seems very good to me. You didn't make any mistake since last time, though if you want to say "it seemed to work OK", you'd probably say something slightly different, such as "J'ai l'impression que ça n'a pas mal marché", or "on dirait que..."
"plus ou moins bien" is literally "more or less well"
Also, although the Swiss (pardon, Vaudois) do speak with intonations, there aren't really any in standard French, only to express strong emotion or in questions (not everyone). So don't worry too much about it if you didn't speak exactly like people in Geneva. Personally I love the Vaudois accent though...
Edited by joanthemaid on 30 January 2011 at 1:54pm
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Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5610 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written)
| Message 26 of 54 01 February 2011 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
Joan: Thank you so much for helping me again! :) That sounds much more natural.
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Kinan Diglot Senior Member Syrian Arab Republic Joined 5567 days ago 234 posts - 279 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, English Studies: Russian, Spanish
| Message 27 of 54 01 February 2011 at 11:36pm | IP Logged |
The only Arabic country that makes decent movies is Egypt, but only old black and white movies are worth watching..I can't recommend you any though cos i don't watch them, but I can tell you my mother learned big part of Arabic from watching these movies.
Did you watch an Egyptian play called مدرسة المشاغبين ?
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Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5610 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written)
| Message 28 of 54 11 February 2011 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
Thanks Kinan I had never heard of it, will definitely check it out :)
My favourite movies that aren't Egyptian are
From Jordan: Captain Abu Raed / كابتن أبو رائد
From Lebanon: West Beirut / بيروت الغربية - Caramel / سكر بنات
From Israel and Palestine: Lemon Tree / شجرة ليمون - Ajami / عجمي
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staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5698 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written)
| Message 29 of 54 11 February 2011 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
Welcome in Belgium !!!
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Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5610 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written)
| Message 30 of 54 01 March 2011 at 4:19pm | IP Logged |
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strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5174 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written)
| Message 31 of 54 01 March 2011 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
أرجو أن عائلتك وأصدقائك سالما. كذلك، أنا فرح أن أعرف أنك لم تقفي تكتبين.
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Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5610 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written)
| Message 32 of 54 01 March 2011 at 8:04pm | IP Logged |
شكراً! كنت قلقة جداً. بعض الاصدقاء تقريبا يموتوا.. هم بخير الحمدلله
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