Theatre , Speaking , Talking with Strangers and making new friends
most everywhere I go. ... I know why French Fries were named " French Fries ", and yet have
nothing to do with France .
I really enjoy, but do not make
any claims about my ability level for these things:Reading (and
sometimes speaking ) French , baking , synthetic inorganic
chemistry , TeX , writing , not getting too stressed out about
life, being good to myself and healthy.
Writing , reading , speaking (even though I feel
like I'm going to pass out or vomit when I start - at least for
public speaking, that is), typing (88 WPM 100% Accuracy is my best
so far, trying to do even better). I do well with Western horseback
riding as well, and am decent with my French .
by eocin
This is a test written to know how well you know France, the french speaking communities. ...
by madame_lapine
Hi! And welcome to my Super French Test. This test isn't meant to be totally serious, and it isn't all encompassing at all.
I have a lot of differe... ...
by capella66
Find out if you could survive in a French-speaking country. ...
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Change that.
by okellelala
Just about everyone in the United States has to pass at least four years of English classes, but that doesn't mean they can lay claim to true eruditio... ...
by LuckyNinja
bilingual) while being an anglophone not
able to speak french is on par with being a war criminal.
Nevertheless, we have to serve french-speaking customers (some
insist on speaking french ONLY when you know damned well they can
speak/read/write french because it's their 'right' to be served in
by bob986
To
accommodate English-speaking Loyalists in Quebec, the
Constitutional Act of 1791 divided the province into
French-speaking Lower Canada and English-speaking Upper Canada,
granting each their own elected Legislative Assembly.
by Wanderlust31
) Is it really that hard for you to believe
that there are people out there who don't understand French... even
a little bit? Let's do a thought experiment. Suppose you're abroad
somewhere, in a non-French speaking region, e.g. the German
speaking part of Switzerland.
by leakycauldron
I DON'T KNOW FRENCH. I have had no exposure to
French. Not at school. Not in books. I don't listen to French songs
nor does anyone speak to me in French. But, according to my
friends, I was speaking FRENCH.
Comment by botticelli2100
new French words like that", luckily I was speaking to a French
teacher who is specialized (i.e. wrote his doctoral on it) in
French "argot" (slang or jargon) etc - and he liked the word right
away, and many other French people too - because it's a combo and
also onomatopoeic - however, the French
Comment by Gematria
But, no
matter what attitude the French government takes, it's likely to be
completely replaced by the standard in 20 years, simply because its
users don't see the point in speaking it anymore, and will raise
children who don't speak it.
Comment by cuteysayswhat
)OffensivenessGenerallyThe word "cunt" is generally
regarded in English-speaking countries as unsuitable in normal
public discourse. ... argued that Shakespeare intends to suggest that she has
misheard "foot" as "foutre" (French, "fuck") and "coun" as "con"
(French "cunt", also used to mean "idiot").
Comment by fadetoashv22
Speaking at the LAGB's 25th anniversary
celebrations in 1984, R. ... the Association for French Language Studies,
founded in 1981, and the annual Welsh Syntax Seminars dating from
1992) or language families (e.
Comment by dflksdj
"General Kutuzov," said Bolkonski, speaking
French and stressing the last syllable of the general's name like a
Frenchman, "has been pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp.
Comment by
also the French nègre, which has also
been used pejoratively (but also positively as in Négritude),
derived from negro (the ordinary French word ... when speaking
in his own voice in his autobiographical Life on the Mississippi.
In the United Kingdom and other parts of the English-speaking
world,
Comment by iamjareth
assignment in France, would you take French
citizenship? ... I know a lot
of "English speaking" people with US high school diplomas who
wouldn't be able to pass that if it were strictly enforced.I would
still like to see a citation for residents (not visitors) for
speaking foreign languages.