Anyone in the middle of learning french?

[shamsia]

Bonjour shamsia!

Je suis québécoise et je parle français aussi.

Je vie couramment en Angleterre alors malheureusement je n'ai pas l'opportunité de le parlez souvent!

Bonjour Darque!

Je suis indienne et je comprends que vous parlez bien francais. But for the life of me I do not understand your second sentence & will get back to you shortly after I use the services of Google Translate ;D

 

[shamsia]

Ahaan! What will I do without Google?


Je suis heureuse de vous rencontrer Darque

 

[ddobro2]

Darque, tu veux dire que tu vie actuellement, non? Desolee, I just had to comment on that.

Bonjour shamsia!

Je suis québécoise et je parle français aussi.

Je vie couramment en Angleterre alors malheureusement je n'ai pas l'opportunité de le parlez souvent!

 

[Crillz]

Ummm, but I do not have a CSQ and most likely would not be moving to Quebec. Or maybe I missed something on that site?

Oh I am sorry, I assumed you were moving to Quebec! Yeah you need the CSQ for that.

 

[shamsia]

Oh I am sorry, I assumed you were moving to Quebec! Yeah you need the CSQ for that.

No problem!

 

[shamsia]

I speak french and It's my mother tongue. I speak Spanish and English too and medium portuguese

LOL @ medium portugese

Moi, so far, its low french ;D

 

[ddobro2]

honestly the only thing i know is that phrase that sounds like "todo bayn" (which i guess would be the equivalent of "ca va bien"). I bet I messed up that spelling of the portuguese big time but it was purely based on the phonetics. Beautiful language though.

LOL @ medium portugese

Moi, so far, its low french ;D

 

[CharlieD10]

Mmm...Tudo bem, you mean? Basically asks/answers "All is well".

Friend of mine is a professor of Gerontology Studies at a university in Oeiras, I cheated and asked her.

 

[ddobro2]

yes, that's what i meant. I like the sound of it too. but what in the world does portuguese have to do with gerontology?

Mmm...Tudo bem, you mean? Basically asks/answers "All is well".

Friend of mine is a professor of Gerontology Studies at a university in Oeiras, I cheated and asked her.

 

[CharlieD10]

Haaha, the professor is Portguese! Today's her birthday...omg...it's a good thing you bring that up, I better go wish her a happy one before it's over! ???

 

[medellinguy]

Bonjour shamsia!

Je suis québécoise et je parle français aussi.

Je vie couramment en Angleterre alors malheureusement je n'ai pas l'opportunité de le parlez souvent!

kinda lost your writing too...

 

[medellinguy]

yeah, wanted to learn portuguese from brazil, ze hot women there!!!

 

[Darque]

kinda lost your writing too...

lol, even though I was raised bilingual, I ever claimed my French was grammatically 'perfect'

I was born and raised to a French speaking only mother and bilingual father but grew up generally speaking English as I attended an English school. My mother and her side of the family are really the only people I still speak French with since I've been in the UK.

I have noticed that as the years have gone by, the more I was 'looking' for words and 'what I wanted to say' when trying to converse in French. I'm sure it will all come back to me when I move back... like riding a bike

On the other hand, my English vocabulary has significantly trebled whilst in the UK. Funny how moving to another country for so long slowly affects dialogue

 

[AllisonVSC]

From my job search I would say that learning and speaking French DOES have advantages outside of Quebec, at least here in Toronto. Employers needing bilingual (French-English, but some other combos as well) are advertising higher salaries than those seeking similar applicants without the two languages.

 

[Norse_Hordes]

Im an Albertan, but ive been living in China the last 3 years. Ive learned quite a bit of Mandarin during my time here and in western Canada it will be ALOT more useful then French. A couple of my friends are Frenchmen, plus ive got friends from French africa, and other french colonies.... But they all speak perfect english. So for me thier is no need to learn in China. Chinese is more useful here obviously. Western Canadians dont exactly look down upon quebecers but we wont study French just to communicate with a QB colleaue working western Canada. I was in BC and Alberta for a month this summer and heard way more Chinese then French. And I had plenty of chances to practice speaking Chinese too. You cant speak Mandarin to anybody who looks Chinese, as they may be from Hong Kong. Cantonese is way more difficult for english speakers than Mandarin, so learn that if you wanna learn an asian language.

Anyways, so if your in the land of Cowboys, pickup trucks, Oil workers (alberta ) your language troubles will be nil. Put an Eh at the end of a sentence and you'll be just fine!