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#1 2012-01-29 17:55:22
- imsosuperswell1
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I am learning French
And I am very excited. Here is some words I know.
Salut! Comment vas tu, j'ai joyeux! Vous joyeux trop?
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#2 2012-01-29 17:56:05
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Re: I am learning French
Cool, but I'm not exactly sure that it belongs here.
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#3 2012-01-29 17:56:33
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Re: I am learning French
Belongs in Other Languages.
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#4 2012-01-29 17:57:46
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Re: I am learning French
Oh ok I wasn't sure if it went here either, mods move it to where it belongs.
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#5 2012-01-29 17:59:25
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Re: I am learning French
imsosuperswell1 wrote:
Oh ok I wasn't sure if it went here either, mods move it to where it belongs.
Already in the process of moving.
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#6 2012-01-29 18:30:42
Re: I am learning French
Nope, I'm pretty sure it belongs here - it's something you're exploring outside of Scratch. 
Of course, I'm going to check with the Scratch Team, but I'm mostly certain. As to French - I know French rather well! It's quite useful. Most people only know words like "salade" and "crème sûre" because of bilingual packaging. 
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#8 2012-01-29 18:34:00
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Re: I am learning French
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Nope, I'm pretty sure it belongs here - it's something you're exploring outside of Scratch.
Oh, okay. I would have thought it might fit more in Reading/Playing, but okay.
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#9 2012-01-29 18:44:50
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Re: I am learning French
Thanks for clearing that up. I know about 20-40 words. Its very fun, maybe when I become very fluent I will go learn some dutch but for now I will stick with this.
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#10 2012-01-29 18:49:10
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Re: I am learning French
I have conversations in my meagre French with my sister
Always ends somewhere up somewhere wierd
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I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello!
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#12 2012-01-29 19:03:08
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Re: I am learning French
Nice! I know French already, being Canadian and having a great memory and such, but I wish you luck.
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#13 2012-01-29 19:43:39
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Re: I am learning French
imsosuperswell1 wrote:
And I am very excited. Here is some words I know.
Salut! Comment vas tu, j'ai joyeux! Vous joyeux trop?
You're getting there
Although I am Canadian and speak french, and the "joyeux" part doesn't make sense.
But keep practicing
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#15 2012-01-30 18:24:30
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Re: I am learning French
I've been learning French for about 2 and a half years now. We have to take it for GCSE, too ;-;
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#16 2012-01-30 18:33:13
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Re: I am learning French
I'm learning Mandarin in school.
Ni hao!
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#17 2012-01-30 19:07:14
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Re: I am learning French
Joyeux = Happy in french. Excuse my french.
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#19 2012-01-30 20:12:57
Re: I am learning French
Salut! Comment vas tu, j'ai joyeux! Vous joyeux trop?
Hi! How are you, I have happy! You happy too much?
Uh... Doesn't quite make sense.
Shouldn't it be je suis joyeux?
French is a fun and easy language to learn, especially if you go to France.
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#20 2012-01-30 20:57:28
Re: I am learning French
kayybee wrote:
French is a fun and easy language to learn, especially if you go to France.
I wouldn't say it's "easy" - the pronoun usage always boggles me, and I *think* they have a few more tenses than we do.
For example, "I was placing them there when I talked to them" becomes "Je les y mettais quand je leur ai parlé" - which, when you translate it word-for-word, means "I them there was placing when I to them have talked."
But if you learn it through immersion (rather than learning each grammar rule) things become a lot simpler.
Also, your first sentence should be something like: "Salut! Comment ça va? Je suis joyeux!" I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "vous joyeux trop;" literally, that means "you" (plural or respectful - in which case you wouldn't have adressed them as 'tu' in the first place) "happy too much?"
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#21 2012-01-30 21:21:17
Re: I am learning French
coolstuff wrote:
kayybee wrote:
French is a fun and easy language to learn, especially if you go to France.
I wouldn't say it's "easy" - the pronoun usage always boggles me, and I *think* they have a few more tenses than we do.
For example, "I was placing them there when I talked to them" becomes "Je les y mettais quand je leur ai parlé" - which, when you translate it word-for-word, means "I them there was placing when I to them have talked."
But if you learn it through immersion (rather than learning each grammar rule) things become a lot simpler.
Also, your first sentence should be something like: "Salut! Comment ça va? Je suis joyeux!" I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "vous joyeux trop;" literally, that means "you" (plural or respectful - in which case you wouldn't have adressed them as 'tu' in the first place) "happy too much?"
Maybe he thought you were overflowing on happiness and wanted to check.
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#22 2012-01-30 21:24:20
Re: I am learning French
luiysia wrote:
coolstuff wrote:
kayybee wrote:
French is a fun and easy language to learn, especially if you go to France.
I wouldn't say it's "easy" - the pronoun usage always boggles me, and I *think* they have a few more tenses than we do.
For example, "I was placing them there when I talked to them" becomes "Je les y mettais quand je leur ai parlé" - which, when you translate it word-for-word, means "I them there was placing when I to them have talked."
But if you learn it through immersion (rather than learning each grammar rule) things become a lot simpler.
Also, your first sentence should be something like: "Salut! Comment ça va? Je suis joyeux!" I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "vous joyeux trop;" literally, that means "you" (plural or respectful - in which case you wouldn't have adressed them as 'tu' in the first place) "happy too much?"Maybe he thought you were overflowing on happiness and wanted to check.
But - while "you happy too much" makes sense in gangsta English - it doesn't make sense in French. You could say "es-tu trop joyeux," if that were the case.
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#23 2012-01-30 21:24:32
Re: I am learning French
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I'm learning Mandarin in school.
Ni hao!
Cool! I learned what the words are in spoken language because I am Chinese, but I've gone to Chinese school for over 5 years and I still read/write at a 1-2nd grade level (dictionaries are your friend, I recommend the Xinhua with English Translation), mostly because I don't pay attention in class (once I got a 33% on a midterm, I still passed because you don't need to pass a grade, you just have to pay for the class). It's pretty fun, though, because they also have calligraphy and drawing classes and stuff like that.
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#24 2012-01-30 21:59:06
Re: I am learning French
coolstuff wrote:
kayybee wrote:
French is a fun and easy language to learn, especially if you go to France.
I wouldn't say it's "easy"...
Well, it's surely much easier than a language without latin characters such as chinese or arabic...
it helps if you speak latin or any other romance language.
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