# Teaching myself French

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-myself-french/274897>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 15, 2004, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-myself-french/274897 "2004-11-15T18:16:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-myself-french/274897/21 "2004-11-17T04:56:58Z")

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There’s always the [Foreign Legion](http://www.foreignlegionlife.com/) …

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**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-myself-french/274897/22 "2004-11-17T05:43:17Z")

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Mon cher **xgxlx** , don’t you remember that I speak French? And that I’m majoring in it? I can’t give you lessons or anything, but I am always willing to help you with grammar/pronunciation/_des choses de ce genre_.

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**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-myself-french/274897/23 "2004-11-17T05:49:32Z")

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Can’t believe this hasn’t popped in yet:

Lay Down Rifle

Hold Up Hands

French lesson now complete 😛

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**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2004, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teaching-myself-french/274897/24 "2004-11-17T06:17:40Z")

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**flickster** , it probably hadn’t “popped in yet” because

1. it’s a stereotype
2. it’s a tired, old, uncreative stereotype
3. we Dopers are better than that–if we’re going to stereotype, we’re at least going to be unconventional, dammit.

Anyway, not to be all junior mod, but **Middlecase** got a [mild warning](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5492393&postcount=10) for a similar thing in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=286482&highlight=surrender). Just sayin’…

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