Frenchie to Frenchie

[Spiffor]

[Boris Godunov]

Ne vous sentez-vous pas désolé pour mon soufflé ?

[Spiffor]

Tu as cuisiné un soufflé ce soir Boris?

Si oui, désolé

[Boris Godunov]

Ah non, "soufflé" n'est pas le mot que j'ai voulu employer. J'ai voulu dire, "des fesses." Excusez-moi!

[Spiffor]

[PLATO]

Hey Ya'll!! Us uns down South want a downhome talkin' thread. Ya'll know...just bout Budweiser, NASCAR, and huntin'. Them damn Yankees keep startin' them yankee talkin' ones all th time!

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Not atrocious at all. We can understand what you mean, and the errors are either colloquialisms or typos. It clearly sounds that you aren't a native, but it's also clear that you have a pretty solid education in French

3 cheers for the New York City public schools, then.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia


Seigneur de la Marque, je suis ton père.

Je pense que le "DVD", c'est un nouveau vie pour etudier une langue etrangere. N'est pas? Mais quand M. Vader dit "l'empereur" je pense seulement de Napoleon Bonaparte.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by PLATO
Hey Ya'll!! Us uns down South want a downhome talkin' thread. Ya'll know...just bout Budweiser, NASCAR, and huntin'. Them damn Yankees keep startin' them yankee talkin' ones all th time!

That would be a boo coo fine thing, pal, and mercy buck ups for suggesting it.

[LDiCesare]

Je pense que le "DVD", c'est un nouveau vie pour etudier une langue etrangere. N'est pas? Mais quand M. Vader dit "l'empereur" je pense seulement de Napoleon Bonaparte.

Ouch. I don't get this one.
c'est un nouveau vie -> c'est une nouvelle vie, butI don't get what it means. It's a new way, a totally new way of learning? We'd say "c'est une revolution". ne nouvelle vie (a new life) doesn't make sense in French here.
N'est pas? -> N'est-ce pas? Actually, skipping all "isn't it" and translating them by nothing will often dwork well
Je pense seulement de -> not "de" but "a".

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by LDiCesare

Ouch. I don't get this one.
c'est un nouveau vie -> c'est une nouvelle vie, butI don't get what it means. It's a new way, a totally new way of learning? We'd say "c'est une revolution". ne nouvelle vie (a new life) doesn't make sense in French here.
N'est pas? -> N'est-ce pas? Actually, skipping all "isn't it" and translating them by nothing will often dwork well
Je pense seulement de -> not "de" but "a".

I meant a new way, and was thinking "via" of course vie in france is life. I also thought "mien" but im not sure what that means.

yup, should have been n'est ce pas. Its just a phrase that comes easily to my tongue (even in english) but i dont write it much.

[Spiffor]

LDi:
I think that LOTM meant "Ca change tout"

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Good
Most of my friends would have made more grammar errors than you (granted they have never made any effort for grammar, but still )

i try to pay lots of attention to grammar, but it means that I write really slowly. masc/fem I mostly get, but the rules about the accords, especially the obscure ones, I have forgotten, along with some conjugaison of certain verb tenses and also their utilization and when to use them.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

you know its funny, I found this site where they have swiss french - french translation, and I didnt notice until now, but I use a lot of swiss french words and pronounciations (especially pronounciations), even though I learned french in school in the US.

and the french teachers would always mark me off for it.

http://mapage.noos.fr/r.ferreol/langage/fr-ch.htm

interesting if you guys are into linguistics.

[Urban Ranger]

Remember people, no funny talks.