Teach me your language I teach you mine

[Party.in.Paris]

I know it can be confusing but..
embrasser = to kiss
and to hug = faire un câlin

 

[kellyisazebra]

Dutch
olifant - elephant
pinguin - penguin
dieren - animals
dierentuin - zoo (literally, animal yard)

I know French and Spanish too but I don't speak either fluently lol.

 

[yourbestfriend]

french help!

if anyone here knows at the moment...

I'm having some second thoughts about having the (a + article defini)

Do these make sense?

Ma mere va au centre commercial.
Mon frere va au campus.

something just doesnt seem right having... va+au together
Thanks in advance

 

[BerlinRocks]

^everything is good...

 

[BerlinRocks]

and wanted to add.... if people don't understand about the prépositions

à + le = au
à + la = à la
à + l' = à l'...

de + le = du
de + la = de la
de + l' = de l'...

I go to the market = Je vais au marché
I'm coming back from the market = Je rentre/reviens du marché

I go to the pool = Je vais à la piscine.

I gave my ... to the enemy = J'ai donné mon .... à l'ennemi.

Please, do not make the same mistake french do i.e :
à is the preposition for the destination
de is the préposition for the provenance

ex :
I gave this cake to Mark = J'ai donné ce gâteau à Mark
This Mark's cake = C'est le gâteau de Mark

I'm going to Paris = Je vais à Paris
I come from Paris = Je viens de Paris


+++++
Do not write : a (for à)!!!
a = has
à = to


omg, i must sound like a teacher.... but hey, the title of the thread is "teach me..."
I hope I didn't do mistakes... lol

 

[yourbestfriend]

Thanks Berlin!

 

[kellyisazebra]

Yeah, yourbestfriend that's right. We just learned that in French class two days ago! Hahah.

 

[lyght]

hawaiian

yes/no - 'ae/'a'ole
thank you very much - mahalo nui loa
good morning - aloha kakahiaka
take care - malama pono
i love you - aloha au ia 'oe
flower - pua
down/up - i lalo/i luna
moon - mahina
beautiful/pretty - nani
i'm sorry - e kala mai ia'u
finished - pau

(..been dancing hula for over 20 years now, so i've picked up a few things )

i'll add more if anyone is interested

 

[christina126]

^me! Those are great

 

[Ceptuouse]

I really need to learn French, I got such a bad mark for it...C+ I guess its better than my C-

 

[xtine888]

hawaiian

yes/no - 'ae/'a'ole
thank you very much - mahalo nui loa
good morning - aloha kakahiaka
take care - malama pono
i love you - aloha au ia 'oe
flower - pua
down/up - i lalo/i luna
moon - mahina
beautiful/pretty - nani
i'm sorry - e kala mai ia'u
finished - pau

(..been dancing hula for over 20 years now, so i've picked up a few things )

i'll add more if anyone is interested

^ you're very good! I've lived in Hawaii for all my life (and I'm 20 years old now) and know less Hawaiian than you, lol.

anyway, wanted to add some more:

local resident - kama'aina
teacher - kumu
priest - kahuna
family - ohana
delicious - ono
help/cooperation - kokua
woman/girl - wahine
man/boy - kane
How are you? - Pehea 'oe?

Someone help me learn Cantonese. I can understand most of it, but I have the crappiest time pronouncing it. Everyone always laughs at me whenever I order dim sum or something, cause I sound so American, lol. Plus, I'm going to Hong Kong this upcoming summer, I need to get better! LOL

I love learning new languages. Thanks to everyone for posting here

 

[BerlinRocks]

I really need to learn French, I got such a bad mark for it...C+ I guess its better than my C-

you need to read french books or magzines. when reading Vogue Paris try to read an article and pay attention to the syntax etc. when you don't understand a word or sentence come there and we'll translate it and explain it... or come there to make your homeworks... everyone is doing it, there
French is pretty difficult (esp. for anglo-saxons...) but if you know your grammar very good... and have some voc. it's gonna be ok...
Grammar is very important in french... but pretty difficult, i know.
i'll support & help you...

 

[Ceptuouse]

thankyou so so much im going to think of a plan how I can learn it the best possible way over the weekend.

 

[xmodel citizen]

Yay, I got a 100% on my semester exam in Spanish! Now I only need to learn like 10 verb tenses

 

[dizzytacks]

wow, i really like this thread, at one point in my life i wanted to be a linguist!

 

[BabyJ]

I went through 7 pages of this thread and saw no Greek. Pretty shocking!

Let's start with the basics:

Hello: Gia sou
How are you: Ti kanies (to someone your age) Ti Kaniete (someone older than you)
Fashion: Moda, Styl
Cool: Oria (more like nice) crio (cool as in cold)
You: Esy, Esi
Happy New Year: Kali Xrono
Happy Birthday/Name Day or any thing you celebrate: Xrona Polla

Anything else you wanna know just ask!

 

[Ceptuouse]

ok, im starting my revision for everything a week on monday, and as BerlinRocks said, im going to focus on grammar, thats what the teacher told me Im bad at then ill do vocab later, or along with

 

[FashionJunkie]

^ JR1, how's my favorite boy in the WHOLE world!!! Good luck with your revision!!!

BabyJ you speak greek? I had no clue!!!

 

[Amelia]

Could somebody, please help me with that short thing? I just can't translate it right, just in general. And please, dont' care about the details, I can't catch up the whole thing

"Tandem de choc: depuis le debut des annees 90, Inez et Vinoodh bousculent la photo de mode, cote revues (mags titles, not important...), cote campagnes (still...) et expos (exhibitions, right? le Guggenheim de New York ou la Hayward Gallery a Londres les ont exposes. Comme la place Vendome, qui a mis a l'honneur plein air le portfolio (...)"

thanks in advance

 

[Pashen'ka]

^

Shocking tandem: since the 90s, Inez & Vinoodh are in fashion photography: in mags, advertisements, and exhibitions; Guggenheim Museum in NYC and Hayward Gallery in London exposed their photographs. As did Place Vendome, where they were honoured with an open-air exhibition (not sure about this last phrase, but imho that should be the sense of it)