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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5754 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes  Studies: French | Message 25 of 119 27 August 2012 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
I bet this is a sentence that gets said rarely in life - I love Montreal! Loving the offqc.com link - quite the labour of love. I am hoping to work up to understanding Québec television though the vocabulary is still way beyond me and the speed of delivery is light-years beyond me, but I can see this site being a really helpful link. I am working though the video clips, including this one which in comparison with the English language version deals with the age-old distinction between a big (fat?) Russian and a nasty clown. un gros russe a nasty clown Edited by Spanky on 27 August 2012 at 4:18pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5754 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 26 of 119 27 August 2012 at 4:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Continuing with L'Affaire du coffret - this particular mystery has remained
unsolved for far too long. Now at episode trois. L'affaire du coffret - à la boulangerie No problem understanding the French language material, but something was said in English which defies comprehension as far as I am concerned: "... and I don't like pain au chocolat." How is this even possible? Edited by Spanky on 27 August 2012 at 4:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5005 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 27 of 119 27 August 2012 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
This reminds me of my Italian book which teaches you how to say I don't want to eat pasta today. I struggle to think of a situation in which that would be useful. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5007 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 28 of 119 27 August 2012 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
This highlights the urgent need for a "you guys crack me up" button here on Htlal. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5754 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 29 of 119 30 August 2012 at 8:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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Merci songlines, now if only I could étudie as much as I niaise,
perhaps I would be further along. (picked up niaiser from the OffQC website: OffQC.com - niaiser Fluent French Now I have begun working chronologically through the fluentfrenchnow.com website recommended by another poster in an unrelated thread – starting with the following: FFN - words ending in ``-ée`` FFN - learning French through translations (of Grisham of all things) (I believe I caught a typo in the last one - “un cachemar” in the sample French translation should be “un cauchemar” – nightmare. French.about.com FAC - mot du jour: farfelu (I was certain that when the site said the translation included « scatty » they had made a ginormous mistake (I was thinking animal scat), but it turns out I was just being a bit farfelu FAC - ignorer (a wicked faux amis) Comparative and superlative adverbs, or as the French might say, in an attempt to say it better or the best: adverbes comparatifs et superlatifs FAC - compartives are less good than superlatives L’affaire du coffret (Episode 4 - “C’est la police!) L'affaire du coffret Il y a un phrase « c’est guignol qui va commencer » - je me demande ce que ça veut dire? Edited by Spanky on 30 August 2012 at 8:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5754 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 30 of 119 31 August 2012 at 3:29am | IP Logged | |||||
oops, should have been "...une phrase..." rather than "...un phrase Google Translate informs me that this means “Is bellcrank will start“ which does not sound entirely correct. I expect that this relates either to a puppet show in general or to the historical Guignol puppet, though I am not inclined to look too deeply into this (honestly, puppets creep me out more than les mimes). Edited by Spanky on 31 August 2012 at 3:39am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5754 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 31 of 119 31 August 2012 at 3:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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L’affaire du coffret - Episode 5. Le journaliste étranger goes somewhere to get some work done, and instead takes une bière - been there before.
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| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5754 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 32 of 119 31 August 2012 at 3:40am | IP Logged | |||||
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Fluent French Now
FFN - se faire Article on the pronominal verb “se faire”, both as a reflexive and non-reflexive verb. Reflexive: Je me suis fait une salade. (I made myself a salad.) which for me at this point is at best something of hypothetical use only. Non-reflexive is a bit more of a struggle. I understand: Elle s’est fait demander son permis de conduire. (She was asked for her driver’s licence.) but Ils se sont fait manger pour [par??] les moustiques. (They were devoured by the mosquitoes.) (seems awkward, though preferable than having to say : Je me suis fait manger par le moustiques). The following definitively feels wrong, or failing that, constitutes yet more proof of the malicious nature of the language: Je me suis fait voler la voiture. (My car was stolen.) It seems this should read “I was stolen by my car” – a Maserati could probably do something like that, but not a regular car as far as I know) or “I made myself steal my car.” (My current, transient thought: verbs unpleasant and unnecessary for me and my life. For a gradual step toward my promise of no oral speech if no comfort with French within 18 months, at some point no more verbs in my life, then no more stinking prepositions, then the nouns, et cetera. Eventually just unemployed conjunctions. But for now, verbs necessary.) Accordingly, I will be going back to the basics and blitzing through les verbes, to review what I already know or should know and to finally learn what I should have learned previously. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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