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    im trying to learn french, could the people who know french well on this forum help me learn it.
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    i find the most important point is when saying Merci Beaucoup thank you alot, make sure you dont say: merci Beau cul - thank you beautiful (3 letter slang word for buttocks)

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    What do you want to learn? Vocabulary? Grammar? Or sentence construction?

    I assume this is written french you speak about, as oral would be impossible to teach you through the net.
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    Unless we agree on a phonetic alphabet.
    A moins que nous ne nous mettons d'accord sur un alphabet phonetique.

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    quoi je ne comprende pas? JE NE SAIS PAS
    tu comprede, je suis stupide
    SO dessa what do you need

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    je suis la ping pong and le Chat est orange are sure fire winners

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    Learned this from a cartoon long time ago...

    Qui ola coupe de fromage. Is that right?
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    just a practice space.
    so anyone that knows french, we can have an entire french conversation in here.
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    bonjour

    comment allezvous?
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    *thinks back to GCSE French*

    Tres Bien, Merci.

    I am Awful at french, which doesnt help me being that im in Paris until monday, Luckly My Girlfriend can speak french so i leave the Lingo to her
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    You could get a french childrens book and a dictionary, but french is a very complex language and it will not be sufficient, especially the grammar can be a pain. There is a huge difference between understanding french and speaking it, good luck

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    Enchante Frag.

    Je m'appelle Desmond
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    Bonjour Desmond ca va?

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    oui ca va, tu aimes le MTW




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    Ca va Bein

    comment allez-vous?
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    Je deteste mtv, c'est la raison le monde est

    oh MTW oui je t'aime MTW




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    Quote Originally Posted by [b
    Quote[/b] (dessa14 @ July 22 2004,06:44)]Ca va Bein

    comment allez-vous?
    edited for making a fool of myselve




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    i have been taught that way.
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    And you are right and me wrong Been a while for me as well, when I am in france it all comes back, reading is no problem at all but when I have to speak

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    If anybody here speaks Spanish, could you please teach me how to say the following:

    I am sorry. I did not realize she was your sister.

    Thanks in advance, that will be a really big help on my next trip to Mexico.

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    kinda funny.
    thanks,
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    Why are you trying to learn in dessa? Just out of interest?

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    Only way to learn it is to pick up the basics (like some simple words and sentence structure) then go and work there for a few months. Even if you think you have learnt it fluently without going there you will find that you can't really follow what's going on unless you have a while to aclimatise to it.

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    Je suis tres mal a la francaise. Je deteste le francais dans ma l'ecole.
    See? I can't even spell it, much less talk it. I guess this was why I failed my last two years of it in school ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by [b
    Cita[/b] (Goofball @ Jul. 22 2004,17:50)]If anybody here speaks Spanish, could you please teach me how to say the following:

    I am sorry. I did not realize she was your sister.

    Thanks in advance, that will be a really big help on my next trip to Mexico.

    Lo siento, no supe ella era tu hermana.

    I actually said, I'm sorry I did not know she was your sister.

    The spanish word realizar actually means something is becoming comepleted. Watch out for false cognates they will trip you up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by [b
    Quote[/b] (mercian billman @ July 24 2004,19:46)]
    Quote Originally Posted by [b
    Quote[/b] (Goofball @ Jul. 22 2004,17:50)]If anybody here speaks Spanish, could you please teach me how to say the following:

    I am sorry. I did not realize she was your sister.

    Thanks in advance, that will be a really big help on my next trip to Mexico.

    Lo siento, no supe ella era tu hermana.

    I actually said, I'm sorry I did not know she was your sister.

    The spanish word realizar actually means something is becoming comepleted. Watch out for false cognates they will trip you up.
    Wow, should memorise that one...


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