Spinchäeb Ape Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4468 days ago 146 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, German
| Message 1 of 5 27 October 2012 at 4:27am | IP Logged |
I've been studying French via various home courses. I haven't been at it all that long, but I'm making progress. I've been building my vocabulary and doing my best to read up on the grammar. Today instead of relying on the courses I've put on my computer, I decided to see if I could apply what I knew. Instead of doing a specific lesson from a book or recording or computer program, I just tried to use some of what I've learned in sentences I made up myself. I did my best to make them correct. Perhaps someone would be willing to look at them to see if they are. They're dirt simple. Like I say, I'm new to this language. Here are the sentences:
Je marche a la bas.
Les hommes marchent avec la fille.
Marchez-vous avec moi ?
Je voudrais marcher avec toi.
Marches avec moi, s'il te plaît.
Je vois une belle femme. (Ne sûr pas c'est correct.) Elle est gentil.
Notre chaise est bon.
Je voudrais promener dans le parc avec la femme. (Ne sûr pas c'est correct.)
Demain je promène dans le parc avec la belle femme. (??)
L'homme et la femme promènent ensemble dans le parc.
Promenez-vous demain avec la femme ?
Aujourd’hui je achète une tronçonneuse.
Regardez-vous mon ordinateur, sil vous plaît.
Est-ce que le livre est bon ?
En la Suisse on parle allemand et français et italien.
Cet homme veut acheter un livre.
Edited by Spinchäeb Ape on 27 October 2012 at 4:28am
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Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5379 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian
| Message 2 of 5 27 October 2012 at 5:46am | IP Logged |
I recommend www.lang-8.com. That's exactly what that site is for.
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Spinchäeb Ape Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4468 days ago 146 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, German
| Message 3 of 5 27 October 2012 at 6:27am | IP Logged |
Arekkusu wrote:
I recommend www.lang-8.com. That's exactly what that site is for. |
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I checked out that site. It's a great concept. I'm going to use it. Thanks.
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Michel1020 Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5015 days ago 365 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 4 of 5 27 October 2012 at 10:09am | IP Logged |
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Je marche là-bas. Correcte mais on dira : J'y vais. Eventuellement : J'y vais à pieds.
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Marche avec moi, s'il te plaît. (impératif)
Elle est gentille.
Notre chaise est bonne.
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Aujourd’hui j'achète une tronçonneuse.
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Regardez mon ordinateur, s'il vous plaît.
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Regardez-vous mon ordinateur ?
Spinchäeb Ape wrote:
En la Suisse on parle allemand et français et italien.
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En Suisse on parle allemand, français et italien.
Edited by Michel1020 on 27 October 2012 at 10:10am
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shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4442 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French
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I find this very useful. French is not as difficult as some languages. You can be off a
bit and still present the proper context.
Usually a noun is preceded by an article le, la or les. But for place names like in
France you say "en France" and to Paris: "à Paris" without the article.
And then there is the pronoun for you which can be "tu" or "vous" when it is singular.
When you are talking to a stranger or someone of respect you'd use "vous" even when it is
just 1 person. To a close friend you'd use "tu".
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