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teach me french
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tamtam92 said:
welcome kate. i hope that you will learn french. it's a difficult enough language, but really beautiful alll the same... something about the richness and english.
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J'apprends le français //plutôt dans le sens d'une vérité générale, sans insister (ex: à l'école, je fais des maths, et j'apprends le français). <->I learn
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Je suis en train d'apprendre le français //Insiste sur le fait que l'on est en cours d'apprentissage, sous-entendu, "chouette ! bientôt je saurai le parler !".<->I'm learning
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bonsoir!!
ive been doin french 4 2yearz lol ,its kewl and 1 day i'll go 2 france, im goin 2 new caledonia next year 2 learn mor french
ive been doin french 4 2yearz lol ,its kewl and 1 day i'll go 2 france, im goin 2 new caledonia next year 2 learn mor french
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Un salut un peu rapide pour Tamtam car je dois retourner a mon travail dans peu de temps. Pour nous amis anglophones qui souhaitent se familiariser avec notre belle langue :
Listen to French internet radios on a daily basis mostly to gain a phonetical familiarization with our sounds. As you can also watch the news in French via TV5.org. the visual exposure will help you associate certain words with the events presented on their videos.
However because grammar is so essential in French, I would recommend you each get a basic French grammar book in order to help you start structuring casual simple sentences. The rest is a matter of absorbing vocabulary. Once you know basic sentence structures such as position of the subject, verb and complement, you can learn to position your words in the interrogative and negative forms.
Start to learn "vital" verbs such as to be, to have, to do. Remember also that French becomes complicated as we do have genders and the gender declinaison will affect the adjective which qualifies the noun. Always learn your new noun with its article giving you the gender of the noun.
Learn the conjugaison of those "vital" verbs at the present tense first. Some I gave you are irregular verbs(many of our verbs will deviate from their spelling at the infinitive mode and it is a matter of memorizing the right conjugaison and modified spelling).
For starters : (my keyboard does not reproduce accents either)
To be : etre.
Je suis, I am
Tu es, you are (familiar form to be used with a younger person or someone you are closely acquainted with)
Il est, elle est, he is, she is
Nous sommes, we are
Vous etes, you are ( polite form and also plural form when referring to several "you")
Ils sont, elles sont, they are (note that we differenciate the they according to their gender).
Once you have memorized that conjugaison, you can proceed to composing your first sentences :
Je suis americain. (that is if "je" is a male). It will become " Je suis americaine" if "je" is a female. We mark the feminine gender by adding an "e" at the end of the adjective. The plural is marked by adding an "s".
Let's see how you can manage by filling the blanks in this exercise with "americain" or "americains" or "americaines":
Je (feminine) suis...........
Nous sommes (masculine).........
Ils sont............
Elles sont...........
Tu es (feminine).........
Vous etes (polite form addressed to a male).........
Elle est.........
Il est............
I gave that exercise as an example of the types of grammatical exercises you will need to work on when you select a book. Do not be discouraged. Start with something easy and study at your pace.
If you are interested only in learning some basic simple expressions, TamTam and I can gather for you casual sentences. We can only give you an approximate of how "it sounds" as our only mode of communication is written. Writting them in french phonetics would not be helpful to you unless you are familiar with our phonetical code of sounds and are already familiar with the sound each sign represents. Plus some sounds are non existant in English. Such as our "r" and our "u". Those two are particularly difficult for native anglophones to reproduce as we pronounce them.
You would have to see the position of my lips when I say "u" for example. The position of the tongue is crucial to pronounce our "harsh" "r" and is totaly different from the way its tip "curles up" in the English "r".
I have to go for now. Aurevoir a tout le monde et a bientot.
PS : TamTam...c'est super de rencontrer une autre francaise. J'espere qu'on pourra papoter un peu quand j'aurai plus de temps.
Listen to French internet radios on a daily basis mostly to gain a phonetical familiarization with our sounds. As you can also watch the news in French via TV5.org. the visual exposure will help you associate certain words with the events presented on their videos.
However because grammar is so essential in French, I would recommend you each get a basic French grammar book in order to help you start structuring casual simple sentences. The rest is a matter of absorbing vocabulary. Once you know basic sentence structures such as position of the subject, verb and complement, you can learn to position your words in the interrogative and negative forms.
Start to learn "vital" verbs such as to be, to have, to do. Remember also that French becomes complicated as we do have genders and the gender declinaison will affect the adjective which qualifies the noun. Always learn your new noun with its article giving you the gender of the noun.
Learn the conjugaison of those "vital" verbs at the present tense first. Some I gave you are irregular verbs(many of our verbs will deviate from their spelling at the infinitive mode and it is a matter of memorizing the right conjugaison and modified spelling).
For starters : (my keyboard does not reproduce accents either)
To be : etre.
Je suis, I am
Tu es, you are (familiar form to be used with a younger person or someone you are closely acquainted with)
Il est, elle est, he is, she is
Nous sommes, we are
Vous etes, you are ( polite form and also plural form when referring to several "you")
Ils sont, elles sont, they are (note that we differenciate the they according to their gender).
Once you have memorized that conjugaison, you can proceed to composing your first sentences :
Je suis americain. (that is if "je" is a male). It will become " Je suis americaine" if "je" is a female. We mark the feminine gender by adding an "e" at the end of the adjective. The plural is marked by adding an "s".
Let's see how you can manage by filling the blanks in this exercise with "americain" or "americains" or "americaines":
Je (feminine) suis...........
Nous sommes (masculine).........
Ils sont............
Elles sont...........
Tu es (feminine).........
Vous etes (polite form addressed to a male).........
Elle est.........
Il est............
I gave that exercise as an example of the types of grammatical exercises you will need to work on when you select a book. Do not be discouraged. Start with something easy and study at your pace.
If you are interested only in learning some basic simple expressions, TamTam and I can gather for you casual sentences. We can only give you an approximate of how "it sounds" as our only mode of communication is written. Writting them in french phonetics would not be helpful to you unless you are familiar with our phonetical code of sounds and are already familiar with the sound each sign represents. Plus some sounds are non existant in English. Such as our "r" and our "u". Those two are particularly difficult for native anglophones to reproduce as we pronounce them.
You would have to see the position of my lips when I say "u" for example. The position of the tongue is crucial to pronounce our "harsh" "r" and is totaly different from the way its tip "curles up" in the English "r".
I have to go for now. Aurevoir a tout le monde et a bientot.
PS : TamTam...c'est super de rencontrer une autre francaise. J'espere qu'on pourra papoter un peu quand j'aurai plus de temps.
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No, it's pronounced like cat. Cat, hat, bad, cap, sap, tap, shack, rack, it's all the same sound that americans at least pronounce the way a french person would pronounce the vowel 'éa'.
Looking in the phonetic transcribtions in the dictionnary, the closest equivilence of a french 'a' is found in the words 'calm, bard, card,'
This isn't quite correct, it will lead to what I was saying before - lazy americans saying 'Tew' and not 'tu'. It's not a difthong nor two vowels. Make the 'e' vowel of the beginning of the 'ew' and with the lips make at the same time the 'w' part.
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Je ne sais pas- i dont know
Je nay say pa- my best way to type pronounciation
Oui- yes
P- Wee
Non- no
P- sounds like it looks
Moi Aussi- Me to
P- Mwhasee
Je nay say pa- my best way to type pronounciation
Oui- yes
P- Wee
Non- no
P- sounds like it looks
Moi Aussi- Me to
P- Mwhasee
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