FRENCH Thread 2

Did you want me to teach basic French?

go ahead and teach french jedichick... no one else is and theres bound to be others who would wamt to learn

Well I guess we'll start with the very basics:

One rule in french is that you don't pronounce the T's D's and S's at the end or middle of the word.

Bonjour-Hello (formal or informal)
Salut-Hello (informal)
Comment ca-va?-How are you?(informal)
Comment tallez vous?-How are you?-(formal)
J'ai-I am
bien-good
pas mal-not bad
mauvais-terrible
et tu?-and you (informal)
et vous?-and you (formal)
Je'mepple-My name is or I am called
Tu t'apple comment-What is your name (informal)
Salut-Goodbye (informal)
Au revoir-see you later

With French you have formal and informal ways of saying things like other foreign languages.
The formal way to say things you use the "Vous" form and for informal you use the "Tu" form. I will teach you guys how to


conjugate the different verbs probably in the next few lessons. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

i have a question... why does there have to be formal and nonformal words.... why do they have to make different lanuages so difficult... lol

Formal is for people older than you. and informal is for people the same age or younger. And for the last question i'm not exactly sure lol

why thank you for clearing that up.... what else is tehre to know

You know what I never got french I don't think I ever will it really confuses me and I start saying german.

That's how i am with French and Spanish because to me they're similar.

I guess the next lesson could be how to order different foods:

J'ai voudrais-I would like...
S'il vous plait-please (formal)
J'ai Prends-I want

Restaurant Foods:

les frites-French fries
un salad-salad
un hamburger-hamburger
un croque monsieur-ham and cheese
les escargot-snails
un coca-cola
de l'eau au mineral-mineral water
un cafe- coffee

How to ask how much
c'est fait combien?-how much is it


if you have any questions feel free to ask and i'll post the next lesson soon.

this shall become useful.... i like to eat food....... yummy.... lol

Hey, I just wanted to make a few corrections There aren't many mistakes but just rectify the few there are

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Comment tallez vous?-How are you?-(formal)

That might just be a typo, but it's "Comment allez vous", not Comment tallez vous

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J'ai-I am

"J'ai is actually I have, not I am. I am would be "Je suis"

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et tu?-and you (informal)

The correct term for "And you" would be Et toi, though "tu" is also used to say "you" in french, just not for that term, so it wasn't all wrong

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Je'mepple-My name is or I am called

Might be typo again, but the correct term is Je m'appelle

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Tu t'apple comment-What is your name (informal)

Once again, possibly typo. Tu t'appelles comment? is the way it's written

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J'ai voudrais-I would like...

This one is Je voudrais. "Je" is "I". When saying "J'ai", it means "I have", like I mentionned earlier

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J'ai Prends-I want

"I want" is actually Je veux. The verb "Prendre" is actually "To take", so to use that verb when ordering some food, you would have to sais "Je vais prendre" which is "I will take". It can also be used for telling someone later on what someone has taken by saying "J'ai pris" which is "I took"



Now for the food, it's mostly the 'Les' and 'des' problem, which is normal. Both are words used, but 'les' is more to show something, like for example "Regarde les chandails" which is "Look at those shirts". 'Des' would used in a context like in this case, ordering food.


So "Les frites" becomes "Des frites" when asking for it. The complete sentence would be "Je voudrais des frites". Same goes for "Des escargots" instead of "Les escargots".

Another particularity in french is that we have genders for every word. Salad, (which is 'Salade' in french) for example, is a feminine word. So it would be "Une salade" instead of "un salad".

Some words can be used both in the feminine and masculine form when they are adjectives, but nouns only have one gender. And, while in English you'll mostly use 'the' in front of a word, we also have feminine and masculine for that.

The easiest example is 'Il' and 'Elle' which are 'He' and 'She'.

Also, 'Un', which is masculine, will become 'Une' in the feminine form.

Un -> Une
Le -> La
Son -> Sa



Another small mistake

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de l'eau au mineral-mineral water

It's "De l'eau minérale", not 'De l'eau au minéral'. Trust me, you wouldn't want to drink that XD


And the last one

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c'est fait combien?-how much is it

It's actually "C'est combien? and not 'C'est fait combien?'. The verb 'Faire' is 'To do'.


So that's pretty much it lol

lol... thanks for clearing up those mistakes.. im sure Taylore didnt do it on purpose... well its a good thing that you where checking this forum then.

I messaged jedichick with a bunch of corrections earlier and i am glad they are cleared up now

since you know more than i then you can teach

Taylore you can still teach it... just check up on everything before you post it... im sure that some of it was just spelling corrections

I didn't mean to offend anyone

Neither did I lol I just wanted to make those corrections because obviously, if people want to learn a new language they have to learn it right.

I dont think that Taylore is offend by it... dont worry about it guys

lol Babel fish wasn't exactly right indeed XD but there are a few mistakes in your sentences


It would be 'J'adore jouer au basket' instead of 'J'adore joue le basket'

Then, it's 'J'aime lire' instead of 'J'aime le lire', since the word 'to' when you say like 'to read' in english doesn't exist in french. The verb just comes after the subject.

and then I'm not sure if what you meant is 'I don't like foot'? because if that's it, the correct way of saying it is 'Je n'aime pas le foot'.

Hello,
I saw the language section, and thought that I might be of use. French was on the list, but there was no topic. I'm going to open one.

I'm Bi-lingual, French and English, so if you have any questions at all concerning french, then I'll try my best to answer them.

Thank you,
Shadow

I would be glad to help.

Je voudrais is on of the most important and useful fraises of Frence it means I would like that way you could piont at the item in question =D

You have already seen most of what I know im only at Junor France sudent at school (iv'e only been learning it for 2 years)
but

Je regarde is - watching
so Je regarde la tele- is im goin to watch t.v
and Retrouve is meet up with so
Je retrouve la mere- I'm goin to meet up with my Mum!

*raises hand*

Er... actually, 'je regarde la tele' is I'm watching the tv. Je vais regarder la tele is I'm going to watch the tv. Same with 'Je retrouve ma mere'. *needs to switch over the international keyboard so she can do accents*

Is there anyone who might be able to help me with some basic phrases I might need for working at a hotel? I from time to time have French speaking guests; I think it's our close proximity to Quebec. I have a super small amount of French. It's kind of funny, though, because I will say, "Ici," when they ask where to sign, or say "merci," and then they'll always without fail start speaking in rapid French to me and I panic.

Anyway, if anyone is able and willing to help, pronunciations would be good too. If you happen to know IPA, I for the most part understand that. Just let me know.

I would like to learn some very specific phrases for work. We have quite a few French speaking guests.

"My French is very limited."
"What is your name?"
"What is your address?"
"What is your phone number?"
"Would you like smoking or non smoking?"
"Would you like one bed or two?"
"May I see the method of payment you would like to use?"
"Please sign here at the bottom."
"This is your room number. You are on the [ground, 1st, 2nd, 3rd] floor."
"The elevator is down this hall."
"Enjoy your stay."

It would just faciliate things a lot better if I could learn these commonly to always used phrases.

Well, in order:

"Mon français est très limité."
"Quel est votre nom?"
"Quel est votre address?"
"Quel est votre numero de téléphone?"
"Désiriez-vous [...] fumeur ou non-fumeur?" (here, you need a noun. For example, if your talking about a table, just insert 'une table')
"Désiriez-vous un lit ou deux?"
"Puis-je voir votre method de paiement?" (I'm not sure if this is the correct way of saying it, but they should get the gist.)
"Signez ici, s'il vous plaît, en bas de la feuille."
"Ceci est le numero de votre chambre. Vous êtes sur le [rez-de-chaussé] / [première/deuxième/troisième] étage."
"L'ascenceur (sp) est par là.' (Not sure how to say 'down this hall', so I replaced it with 'over there'.)

Hope this is okay...

Thank you. You are positively faboulous!! *huggles* My co-worker laughed at me. She thinks I'm obsessive.

Oh and, it's un chambre, correct? Or is it une? I can never remember the masculine and feminine of different words.

I can't remember the masculin or feminin for anything, but apparently there's the ending of the word that tells you - for some, anyway... (It's way easier to tell in spanish...)

What's the point of masculin/feminin words anyway? That's one reason why french class annoys me

I agree with you Doro. It just annoys me to no end. Like that boy in french class in 6e I think. He said un fille et une garçcon...