J'ai voulu des discussions en Francais pour toujours - et voila, il et ici! Mon famille et moi sont faire le vacances au France autrefois 2005. Tout le monde avons besoin de practicer le Francais avant partons pour France. Qu'est-ce que tu penses de mon Francais? Comme ci comma ca? Il a ete environ dix ans depuis que j'ai pris les classes françaises.
Mais - Je triche en employant http://babelfish.altavista.com/ maintnent
Sean c'est bien, je me suis permis quelques corrections qui, je l'espère, te seront utiles pour t'aider à progresser:
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Sean Kelly à dit dans le message #1 : J'ai voulu des discussions en français depuis toujours - et voila, ça y est ! Ma famille et moi partons en vacances en France en 2005 (note: je pense avoir compris que tu allais partir cette année en France). Tout le monde a besoin de pratiquer le français avant de partir pour la France. Qu'est-ce que tu penses de mon français? Comme ci comme ça? Il s'est passé environ dix ans depuis que j'ai suivi des cours de français .
Voila, that was my first sentence in French. I can understand a lot while reading, but I am finding it difficult to write and speak. I am learning a little every day by listening and reading on BBC languages website. Unfortunately, those tutorials are to get a working knowledge of French; they are not proper step by step learning sessions. Does anyone know any good detailed online tutorials that use sound (so that I can learn the proper pronounciation as well)?
M.
p.s. Is 'mes' plural for 'ma'? And is 'mon' used for inanimate objects while 'ma' is used for people, for example, 'mon sac' vs. 'ma cherie'? Also, then why is 'mon Dieu' used instead of 'ma Dieu'?
"Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."—J. E. Littlewood.
French is my mother langage so I never felt the necessity to find some tutorials in french - right now I have no idea about how to help you for that.
By the way, it is: "Bonjour mes amis" (you forgot "mes")
mes is indifferently plural for "mon" or "ma" (masculine and feminine)
There is not a word for inanimate subjects and another word for animate ones; it is only related to the gender of the word (chérie is feminine, hence "ma" before, "sac" is masculine, hence "mon" is required). Well in fact it is a little bit more complicated, since you should say "mon amie" even though "amie" is feminine (with a "e" at the end of it). French is a difficult langage for foreigners to learn, because of those complexities, and even us french people may not command all those subtleties sometimes.
Don't worry, it is already commendable to make such an effort to learn it. Keep it up.
Merci JY. Thank you for the corrections. I will most likely be posting often in this thread to show my progress. The reason I started with French is that the vocabulary is very close to English, so it is quite easy to read and understand. My Romans teacher suggested that Latin be learned first to get a hold of all the Romance languages, but Latin is too hard to learn by yourself. Plus I find French much more smooth and beautiful to speak, even though figuring out the pronounciation is a pain sometimes.
M.
"Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."—J. E. Littlewood.
French is my mother langage so I never felt the necessity to find some tutorials in french - right now I have no idea about how to help you for that.
By the way, it is: "Bonjour mes amis" (you forgot "mes"
mes is indifferently plural for "mon" or "ma" (masculine and feminine)
There is not a word for inanimate subjects and another word for animate ones; it is only related to the gender of the word (chérie is feminine, hence "ma" before, "sac" is masculine, hence "mon" is required). Well in fact it is a little bit more complicated, since you should say "mon amie" even though "amie" is feminine (with a "e" at the end of it). French is a difficult langage for foreigners to learn, because of those complexities, and even us french people may not command all those subtleties sometimes.
Don't worry, it is already commendable to make such an effort to learn it. Keep it up.
Help me out here.
I went on the Internet (heck, I am always on the Internet ) and I found out that you can use 'mon ami' (instead of mon amie) to refer to male friends, and same with 'mon cheri' (if a girl is referring to her boyfriend or close male friend). Is that right too?
Also, I just used 'bonjour amis' by literally translating from English 'Hello friends'. Is it compulsory in French to use the pronoun ('mes') in such phrases?
Also, today I accidentally called one of my friends 'mon petite ami', and had to immediately correct myself. Man was it weird.
Actually, I find this masculine vs. feminine usage quite familiar, since almost all Indian languages employ similar grammatical rules.
M.
"Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."—J. E. Littlewood.
About 2500 words in english come from the french. Even though some of them are now "false friends" to us french people (example: eventually suggests "possibly" to us, while its meaning is rather "at the end of it"), there is indeed a very good reason why you feel that the two langages are close to each other.
Well generally you have to use a word before a noun in french.
"Petit" or "petite" added to ami means boy / girlfriend in the sense of "fiancé" (another french word). I know it is sometimes weird.
Oh, I just thought that my usage of 'petite' should have been 'petit'. I don't want to tell my friend what a mistake I made. Even he didn't know about that usage, and he took French in Junior High school. It would be very embarassing.
So what would you say in French if you wanted to say, 'My little friend, yada yada yada'?
M.
"Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."—J. E. Littlewood.
JY told me not to use petit or petite with ami because it means fiance.
JY, I know there is a very close relation between English and French. Not only both were heavily influenced by Latin (French much more since Gaul was ruled by Romans much longer than they ruled that dreary island ), but the English royalty heavily used French language and French culture during the middle ages.
M.
"Every positive integer is one of Ramanujan's personal friends."—J. E. Littlewood.
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