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Ah me too, I'm too much of a perfectionist. I'm always correcting people's french.
@ Justis You did the translation well. But UP's usage of the present tense when he said "les gens parlent trop vites" is correct iirc. (Though yours is correct as well, but if it was, he would have to have written the entire paragraph in the past tense)
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And dear god, it annoys the shit out of me when people overabuse 'moi' in French sentences.
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And dear god, it annoys the shit out of me when people overabuse 'moi' in French sentences.
Sandwich knows his french. Ugghhhh I can't stand that, especially because when you're actually speaking, you don't use "moi" that often. .__.
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En Juillet je suis allé en France pour deux semaine. Je trouve que parler la langue est assez facile, mais de comprendre est trop difficile. Les gens parlent trop vite pour moi.
J'ai demandé pour un club de golfe, et je l'ai fait bien. Le probleme est venu quand l'assistant á repondu. Je ne comprenais pas un mot qu'elle dit.
Fin.
Translation time! Although I haven't taken french since June...
"...The people speak (should be spoke?) very quickly to me....
No, as far as I'm aware, they still do. I wouldn't have said spoke were I using english. I guess I could have used l'imparfait and said "Les gens parlaient trop vite", as in the people were speaking too fast for me.
And to those saying they wish to correct me, please do. In French class we learned very narrow topics, and so outside of that I make it up by botching it together with no idea of whether I'm being gramatically correct. It may not be elegant, but it does the job. Usually.
I am keen to learn.
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En Juillet je suis allé en France pour deux semaines. Je trouve que parler la langue est assez facile, mais comprendre est très difficile. Le gens parlent trop vite pour moi.
J'ai demandé pour un club de golfe, et je l'ai fait bien. La probleme était quand l'assistant a repondu. Je ne comprenais pas un mot qu'elle a dit.
That's what I could correct, but I'm not a native french speak and I am still taking secondary level french, so I apologise if I have made any mistakes in correcting you. :>
(some vocab I wasn't sure with-- such as the correct word for golf club. I'm not sure if un club de golfe is the correct phrase)
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And I'm pretty sure club de golf is right. They definitely use the words club and golf, so it would make sense. I may have made up the e though XD.
And I don't know why I added the accent on the a when it's a form of avoir. But thanks, the rest makes sense to me. It's just the little additions that take it to the next level.
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Personally I'd have said "mais c'est très difficile de comprendre" though. Also in the last sentence, the imperfect isn't really needed because you're describing a single event in the past, rather than something that used to happen regularly.
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This. XD
I hated that sentence. Thanks.
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I also somewhat know Hakata-ben, which I was kinda forced to pick up since I'm in Fukuoka. :V
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Entonces mi orto idioma era espanol pero no lo se completo pero soy fluente :/. (So my other language is spanish but I don't know it completely but I'm very fluent)
Ich nehme erst jahre deutschklasse in die schule. (I am taking first year German Classes in School).
German has been a challenge for me mainly for conjugations DX
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But I fail at all other languages. I'm attempting Japanese independently, but it's hard.
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Why does everyone first learn the bad words? xD
Anyway, I really, really, really adore languages!
My native language is German and I take English in school for about seven years. For 3 years I also started learning french... which is a pity. -.- For example, in French it's "La table", so it's feminine. But in German you say "Der Tisch", which is masculine. But I got used to it.
Then I take Japanese lessons in Volkshochschule (Google says it's called Adult Education Center in English-speaking countrys... but in Germany non-adult people can go there too) for one and a half year, but I only have one lesson per week and the recesses between two courses are waaaay too long.
Next year I can choose either Spanish or Italian, but I think I'll take Spanish. (With that, I may stop going to physics!!!)
And some day I'll learn another language... like Swedish or something.
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Why does everyone first learn the bad words? xD
Anyway, I really, really, really adore languages!
My native language is German and I take English in school for about seven years. For 3 years I also started learning french... which is a pity. -.- For example, in French it's "La table", so it's feminine. But in German you say "Der Tisch", which is masculine. But I got used to it.
Then I take Japanese lessons in Volkshochschule (Google says it's called Adult Education Center in English-speaking countrys... but in Germany non-adult people can go there too) for one and a half year, but I only have one lesson per week and the recesses between two courses are waaaay too long.
Next year I can choose either Spanish or Italian, but I think I'll take Spanish. (With that, I may stop going to physics!!!)
And some day I'll learn another language... like Swedish or something.
I can help you learning some swedish. That last sentence will be
"Och någon så ska jag lära mig något annat språk... typ som svenska eller nånting."
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Not as hard as arabic, I'm sure of that.
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Personally, I would choose either Italian, Portuguese or Spanish. But must be because they are similar to Spanish, so they seem easy to me XP
In your case, maybe German? Since English is a Germanic language. No idea.
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Personally, I would choose either Italian, Portuguese or Spanish. But must be because they are similar to Spanish, so they seem easy to me XP
In your case, maybe German? Since English is a Germanic language. No idea.
I thought about taking Italian, French and Spanish, so I'll pick between those three. Not really interested in German though
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I'd suggest taking classes if available, since you'll level up much faster. If not, then you'll have to work ten times as much as the next guy if you wanna get good at learning it and NOT just end up thinking you're the shit because you picked up some phrases from anime like "omae wa mou shindeiru" or something.
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But I fail at all other languages. I'm attempting Japanese independently, but it's hard.
Oh man, I would love to learn Italian; it's such a nice language.
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I hate French.
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