Teach me your language I teach you mine

[BerlinRocks]

Thank you BerlinRocks! So like Imparfait but with no -s, I'll try to remember!

heu... no no no... this is just for the first person "je" at the first group
the rest is different... do you want the conjugaison?
(i feel so dumb, now!doh:

 

[evisu donna]

you've been listening to too much nelly furtado

Yeah, apparently

 

[stersita]

heu... no no no... this is just for the first person "je" at the first group
the rest is different... do you want the conjugaison?
(i feel so dumb, now!doh:

Yeah please! And also, do you guys say "si" instead of "oui" sometimes? Because I saw a movie in French today at school, and I swear they said it

 

[BerlinRocks]

^yes we say "si" sometimes... often, even... like you...
i'm tired and lazy to do the passé simple conjugaison this evening so i'll do it later... ok?

 

[stersita]

Oh it's ok! If it's difficult don't bother

 

[hell]

oh i would love to speak french. my mother speaks it perfectly because she worked for a french company so she had to speak it the whole day more than ten years long. and i don't speak a word french. i only learn Latin , Ancient Greek and english at school.

so can someone answer my easy question please ...

what is " that is ..." in french ? and how do i pronounce it thank you much...

 

[em 692]

Originally Posted by stersita:
Yeah please! And also, do you guys say "si" instead of "oui" sometimes? Because I saw a movie in French today at school, and I swear they said it

isn't ''si'' used when there is a question that the answer "yes" could mean yes as in yes or yes as in no (Berlin, can you confirm this?)...but i can't think of an example, of course

 

[stersita]

^Yes as in yes or yes as in no OK!

 

[em 692]

^ okay, i think it should make sense with an example...if i could think of one...maybe i can't think of one b/c i am wrong maybe if i had my french book, but i don't...

 

[stersita]

^ Don't worry, maybe some French speaker can help you

 

[gexi]

si is in answer to a negative question. like if you're disagreeing and saying but yes! like "didn't you understand?" "yes, i did!" "tu n'as pas compris?" "si!/mais si!"

 

[stersita]

^ Ohhhh ok I get it now

 

[BerlinRocks]

oh i would love to speak french. my mother speaks it perfectly because she worked for a french company so she had to speak it the whole day more than ten years long. and i don't speak a word french. i only learn Latin , Ancient Greek and english at school.

so can someone answer my easy question please ...

what is " that is ..." in french ? and how do i pronounce it thank you much...

i need a complete sentence...
for instance in "(...)that is the question..." it means "(...)telle est la question"... or more familiar "c'est la question"...

for the pronouciation, i don't know how to write it for a deutsch-speaker (eventhough i learnt german for 5yrs!)

 

[evisu donna]

Can you say this in French:
"C'est aussi grand que les Pays-Bas entiers, pour te donner une impression"
The last part is literally translated from Dutch so it might sound weird

And this? "Les régions limitrophes avec Rhône-Alpes sont..."
I know 'pays limitrophe' exists but I don't know how to say this...

 

[evisu donna]

Another question

Can you say this:
"Seulement une partie de la région Rhône-Alpes est située dans les Alpes. Et aussi le Massif Central n’est située que dans trois départements de Rhône-Alpes"
That last part is probably wrong, but I don't really know where to put the 'ne...que' because it's different that with 'ne...pas' right?

 

[Lyla19]

German -

Hello - Hallo
Love - Liebe
Fashion - Mode
Cool - Kool
Smile - Hahaha, I forgot, this one.

French
Hello- Salut
Love - Amour
Fashion - Vouge
Smile - Forgot this too.

 

[hell]

Berlinrocks thank you that helps me a lot.


and Lyla19 cool means kool in german ? i don't think so. we say "kühl" if the weather is cool and we say cool like everyone if a thing is cool.
and for smile we say lächeln .

 

[FashionJunkie]

in french fashion is mode and en vogue it's an expression that means fashionable.

Can someone explain to me the correct pronounciation of either? I heard both ee-ther and i-ther. Do you use both?

oh and smile is sourire

 

[sleepingbeauty13]

Can someone explain to me the correct pronounciation of either? I heard both ee-ther and i-ther. Do you use both?

Both pronunciations are correct, ee-ther is more common in American English and i-ther is more common in British English, but both are accepted as correct.

 

[FashionJunkie]

Oh thanks!!!