I jst signed up for French lessons! w00t w00t! :)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A friend had a merkin teacher who loved to enunciate. She would say things like, “Je sweee FAT - eeeeeee - GAY!” and wonder why the class cracked up.
It’s a beautiful language and I wished I remembered more of it (I spoke it fluently as a child.)

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Sunspace and I were talkin about this last night. I said the most of the French I remembered was swearing! I had this sweet little French lady in college but BOY! could she chew you up one side and down the other.:smiley:

Funny thing the most of the ASL I remember is swearing as well…
:o

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I’m presently taking some culinary classes from a woman who seems to know what she’s doing, but when she answered a question in class about herbes de provence, she replied, “oh, those are herbs that are from the provinces.” She has mangled practically every French cooking term, including:

buerre = bear
pincage = pink-age
fines herbes = fines (rhymes with pines) herbies

It’s like fingernails on the chalkboard of my soul.

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Thanks, everyone. I’m looking forward to visiting Montréal sometime soon. eunoia, the first couple of times I read your post, I thought it said drunk-tank. I was scratching my head why you wanted to put me in jail… :slight_smile:

mgadam, I’ll work on it. Wish I still knew the beautiful Quebecoise* I met in Banff, but that was 9 years ago. Or the beautiful French intern who sat in the cubicle next to me at work this spring, but I was too old… <sigh> And I’ll try not to lick the potatoes. <raised eyebrow>.

matt_mcl, I now can’t get Pépé le Pew out of my mind. le mew… le mew… le mmmrrrowww!.

And I gather from Krisfer that you haven’t lived until someone’s sworn at you in ASL…

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Chefguy, wasn’t there some British TV show that had a family of would-be upwardly-mobiles named Bucket (pron. bouquet)? OTOH, my dad always said “murky buckets” for merci beaucoup …as a joke.

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I found the WGBH filmed series, French in Action, to be extremely helpful in understanding conversational French. The Princeton professor who hosts it uses the immersion theory of language teaching, and you can’t beat it for learning the proper pronunciation. I believe any largish library will carry the whole series.

The story is kind of fun and the films of Paris are a joy.

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Thanks, pugluvr. I’ll look them up.

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We used to refer to it as “Flesh In Action”. Man, that Mireille was HOT!, and was blessed with a charming disregard for undies.

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Salut! Je m’apelle Blackeyes. Je suis un eleve de francais. Ca va?

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After the immersion, some heavy drinking!

We may use profanities instead of obscenities, but getting sloshed is pretty well universal. :wink:

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Salut! Je m’appelle Sunspace. Je suis élève à l’Alliance Française en Toronto. :slight_smile:

Chefguy, I’ll definitely look that series up.

And eunoia , I don’t drink alcohol, but thanks anyways. :slight_smile:

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Et ça va, Blackeyes. Ça va bien!

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Ill hay tray shode oh gord wee? I can’t figure this one out.

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Il est tres chaud aujourd’hui. = It is very hot today… :slight_smile:

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Oui ca va, merci.

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For some extra fun, tell your french teacher

jai une fetishe, attache moi…

I’m not sure of spelling but I’m pretty sure that’s right

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What does that mean?

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I have a fetish (BTW, in French it is spelled fétiche), tie me up.

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:eek:

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Keeping up Appearances.

http://www.bbcamerica.com/genre/comedy_games/keeping_up_appearances/keeping_up_appearances.jsp