French language lessons. Mods please read it!

[Pekka]

Finnish is alreadyt accepted in Suomithreadis.. why don't you learn that and come there..

[Ming]

Originally posted by paiktis22
rah,

you said that all french posts should include an english translation. I'm afraid that at least for me and I'm sure for many others, this is way too much effort and will ultimately kill the thread which has started out nicely and is providing what we are looking for meaning french practice.
I'd ask that you reconsider. For me to try and write in french and then translating everything I wrote in english is really very very hard and tedius. I think for many others too.

Rah is correct... provide a translation or this thread is toast. The direction from the owners on this subject is very clear... If you can't deal with that, bummer. We are just enforcing the wishes of the owners of this site.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


Pourquoi faites-vous capitiliser le pronom "Je" en francais?

N'est-ce pas un anglicism?

Il pourrais que vous avez raison. Je doit admetre que j'oublier s'il faut ecrire le "j" en capital ou pas!
Donc j' imagine qu'il ne faut pas l'ecrire en capital?



Spiffor malheuresement j'ai win 98

[lord of the mark]

while translation to english would be great for me, there are of course folks here (other than the Francophones) for whom English is NOT their native language, and they must already do some mental translating to get to english. To have to deal with TWO foreign languages in each post might be an obstacle.

[rah]

Yeah, Bummer.

and paiktis22, don't push your luck.

[Ming]

Originally posted by lord of the mark
while translation to english would be great for me, there are of course folks here (other than the Francophones) for whom English is NOT their native language, and they must already do some mental translating to get to english. To have to deal with TWO foreign languages in each post might be an obstacle.

Then go practice on a French site...

Because this one doesn't look like it's going to last much longer.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Ming


Rah is correct... provide a translation or this thread is toast. The direction from the owners on this subject is very clear... If you can't deal with that, bummer. We are just enforcing the wishes of the owners of this site.

I'm sorry to hear that then. Providing a translation would be tedius and pointless. And would ultimately kill the thread. A pity because it started out very nicely....

[Ming]

Originally posted by paiktis22


I'm sorry to hear that then. Providing a translation would be tedius and pointless. And would ultimately kill the thread. A pity because it started out very nicely....

And I'm sorry too... the point is that you are currently breaking the rules... it's that simple. So translate or be shut down. The choice is yours.

[Bereta_Eder]

There is no choice I'm afraid. You can shut it down or leave it open for those willing to go through that drag... I think very few will but I may be wrong.

[Ben Kenobi]

Donc j' imagine qu'il ne faut pas l'ecrire en capital?

Mes professeurs captilisent le pronom "Je" au debut de la phrase.

(They capitalise I only at the beginning, and not the middle of the sentence)

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Très juste

MtG, in case you're wondering, I thought it was you who wrote LDiCesare's post, explaining in a flawless French that "merde" can be used as a replacement for "good luck", which is an ill-omen itself)

I've never gotten so much mileage from a one word post.

[Atahualpa]

Quelle bonne idea


AHHH I need such a thread real bad. I mean I dont even know whats "because" in french. I know it in spanisch but not in french and I studied french for 4 years and spanish just for one now. All this spanish has overriden my french.
I am in between two languages, because I have forgotten a lot of french and I still know not enough spanish. Terrible!

Of course I can read it all what you are writing here and I understand it and get the jokes, but I cant write it... Sólo español veut arrivé a mi mind :-) (I am ready for Europanto/Esperanto I guess :-D)

[Ben Kenobi]

I like to use Donc, but because is puisque.

There are plenty of ways to make that phrase.

[lord of the mark]

how about this

everyone who posts in french has to translate into another language, but not necessarily English. So if Paiktis wants to translate into Greek instead, thats ok.


Or how about we limit it still further. Since the site owners are a Greek and a Canadian, anything posted en francais (in French) must be translated into one of the other official languages of one of the owners' countries - that would be either English, or Greek

[Ben Kenobi]

Or someone can do a running translation of the untranslated French posts to English.