Excuse me? Excusez-moi? Scusilo? Excuseme?

[Ben Kenobi]

C'est veuz dire, que mon francais, cest assez bon pour le Canada?

Eh bien, c'est tres bon au l'Ouest Canada.

I'll claim 1.5. English, plus I can read french, write it fairly well, but I can't speak it at all. Very hard for me to hear.

Smatterings of Russian, Spanish, and German.

[Tuberski]

Re: Excuse me? Excusez-moi? Scusilo? Excuseme?

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
How many languages do you speak?

here are the rules

1. count your native language
2. you must be able to hold a reasonable conversation, read the newspaper, and write a commentary on a newspaper article
3. 'learning' a language means not being able to do one of those
4. you must be currently learning the language - i know a smattering of and can understand some of it, but i am not currently learning it, so it doesnt count.
5. you cannot be learning more then a language at a time
5. vote

The question should be "how many languages are you fluent in?" not speak.

ACK!

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


Eh bien, c'est tres bon au l'Ouest Canada.

couple things:

"au" is a contraction of "a le". saying "au l'Ouest" is ridiculous

also, you should probably say "pour" Western Canada instead of "a" western canada

finally, the way to say Western Canada is "l'Ouest du Canada"

[Az]

English
Hebrew
Russian

also some french.

3.5, I guess.

[alva]

And one would probably start of with "et alors" or "donc" and finish with "qua", one can't finish a sentence without it.

[KrazyHorse]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Excuse me? Excusez-moi? Scusilo? Excuseme?

Originally posted by lord of the mark


C'est veuz dire, que mon francais, cest assez bon pour le Canada?

That's fine, except the expression is "ca veut dire", not c'est veuz dire.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by alva
And one would probably start of with "et alors" or "donc" and finish with "qua", one can't finish a sentence without it.

Not enough berets either.

[alva]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Excuse me? Excusez-moi? Scusilo? Excuseme?

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


That's fine, except the expression is "ca veut dire", not c'est veuz dire.

I'm glad you're not doing this on English posts too btw.

[KrazyHorse]

Re: Re: Excuse me? Excusez-moi? Scusilo? Excuseme?

Originally posted by lord of the mark

Donc, je ne suis pas certain le correct numbre des langues que je (scratches head for how to say should) repondre a ton question. (gad i mangled that and i know it)

put the nombre before the correct

use "dois" (I think that's the correct subjonctif form of doivre) for "should".

[KrazyHorse]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Excuse me? Excusez-moi? Scusilo? Excuseme?

Originally posted by alva

I'm glad you're not doing this on English posts too btw.

Half of it's for me. My french is getting bad, living in the US.

I spoke to the customs dude in french today just because I could.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

and finish with "qua", one can't finish a sentence without it.

with 'quoi' yeah its so hillarious, i put quoi at the end of half my sentences when i talk. also from the international student frenchies here at school ive picked up the 'eeeeeuuuuuuhhhhh' that you say whenever you are thinkng about what you are going to say next (america's uhhhhhh) so annoying that i love it.

[Ben Kenobi]

"pour"

"L'ouest du Canada."



That's what I wrote the first time, but it seemed too straightforward to be right.

[lord of the mark]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Excuse me? Excusez-moi? Scusilo? Excuseme?

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


That's fine, except the expression is "ca veut dire", not c'est veuz dire.

Ca VEUT dire, CA VEUT dire .....

Of course it not an expression i would see written much, but can remember High school french teachers saying.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia
is hear that learning a 3rd language is a lot easier then a second. is that true?

Not for me, i have a tendency to toss in a Hebrew word when speaking french, or vice versa, apparently both are stored in the same part of my brain. Of course im not very good in either, so that may account for it.


I once read a book by some linguist that emphasized using historical language relationships to make language learning easier - it was fascinating about the Scandinavian languages esp, also Dutch and German, and made me think learning a Scandinavian language wouldnt be too hard IF i took the time.


Also, oddly, I have a tendency to break into French on the rare occasions when I get drunk. Once i was with some guys from work and started babbling in mangled, school boy French. Quite embarrassing. But I spoke French better than I do sober, I think. Some loss of inhibitions, I think?

[KrazyHorse]

Not for me, i have a tendency to toss in a Hebrew word when speaking french, or vice versa

I have the same problem with German and Spanish.

I guess I have three language sections in my brain: English, French and everything else.