I took 3 and a half years of French in high school, and by the end, I was lucky if I could put an entire sentence together without using my "cheat book". Now, a few years later, it comes to me once in a while, but that's about it.
LikuI, am the Somberlain.Join Date: 2003-01-10Member: 12128Members
<!--QuoteBegin-RuBy+Jun 16 2005, 05:03 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RuBy @ Jun 16 2005, 05:03 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> That said, French is not nearly as phonetic as English which itself is not great either. For example the following suffixes all sound exactly the same:
-é -ée -er -ez -ai -ait -ais -aient
Talk about confusing. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Sweet.
Does anyone else find the sounding of French to remind them of colors melting/diarrhea/ugliness?
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<!--QuoteBegin-Liku+Jun 16 2005, 07:24 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Liku @ Jun 16 2005, 07:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Does anyone else find the sounding of French to remind them of colors melting/diarrhea/ugliness? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> When over-emphasized, yes!
Sounds like they're coughing up what they ate last weekend...
<!--QuoteBegin-Breakthrough+Jun 16 2005, 08:51 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Breakthrough @ Jun 16 2005, 08:51 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Liku+Jun 16 2005, 07:24 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Liku @ Jun 16 2005, 07:24 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Does anyone else find the sounding of French to remind them of colors melting/diarrhea/ugliness? <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> When over-emphasized, yes!
Sounds like they're coughing up what they ate last weekend... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> I prefer the sound of Russian myself. It can either sound very nice or very harsh (more powerful than 'harsh'). Maybe it's just the a sounds that tend to denote feminine nouns and adjectives, just like in Latin and German.
Я - ya А - aah О - aeh
(depending on stress)
красивая krasivaya (female inflected form of 'beautiful')
девочка -- красивая (the girl is beautiful) Devochka (is) beautiful
Of course, it's also really hard (at least it was for me, at first) to say a basic hello... Здравствуйте zdravstvuytye (transliterated) z-drast-voot-yeh (pronouced - One of the few inconsistent phonetic pronoucation thingies)
[you might notice a few dropped/changed letters in there]
It's actually pretty easy to learn, once you get passed the whole 6 cases and 33 letters (which look incredibly different in many cases when written instead of typed (kind of like how a cursive Q looks like a 2), and the whole ь changing the meaning of words thing.
[Being in the fact it's incredibly consistent with its rules and there's no present tense use of "to be" (is) and there's no "the" or "a" required. That, and there's basically word order with basic sentences.]
Women tend to like French more than other languages for some strange reason. The only reason guys took French at my high school was to go to class with those girls <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> . Stupid <a href='http://www.aneki.com/languages.html' target='_blank'>French</a> (beware o' pop-ups).
I'm not even quite sure how I got on this topic, as there's little Russian anyone uses aside from bolshevik (someone might try to note comrade...but that's, coincidently enough, French in origin), and its original meaning was just relaying the fact it was the majority party <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
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-é
-ée
-er
-ez
-ai
-ait
-ais
-aient
Talk about confusing. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Sweet.
Does anyone else find the sounding of French to remind them of colors melting/diarrhea/ugliness?
When over-emphasized, yes!
Sounds like they're coughing up what they ate last weekend...
When over-emphasized, yes!
Sounds like they're coughing up what they ate last weekend... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I prefer the sound of Russian myself. It can either sound very nice or very harsh (more powerful than 'harsh'). Maybe it's just the a sounds that tend to denote feminine nouns and adjectives, just like in Latin and German.
Я - ya
А - aah
О - aeh
(depending on stress)
красивая
krasivaya (female inflected form of 'beautiful')
девочка -- красивая (the girl is beautiful)
Devochka (is) beautiful
Of course, it's also really hard (at least it was for me, at first) to say a basic hello...
Здравствуйте
zdravstvuytye (transliterated)
z-drast-voot-yeh (pronouced - One of the few inconsistent phonetic pronoucation thingies)
[you might notice a few dropped/changed letters in there]
It's actually pretty easy to learn, once you get passed the whole 6 cases and 33 letters (which look incredibly different in many cases when written instead of typed (kind of like how a cursive Q looks like a 2), and the whole ь changing the meaning of words thing.
[Being in the fact it's incredibly consistent with its rules and there's no present tense use of "to be" (is) and there's no "the" or "a" required. That, and there's basically word order with basic sentences.]
Women tend to like French more than other languages for some strange reason. The only reason guys took French at my high school was to go to class with those girls <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> . Stupid <a href='http://www.aneki.com/languages.html' target='_blank'>French</a> (beware o' pop-ups).
I'm not even quite sure how I got on this topic, as there's little Russian anyone uses aside from bolshevik (someone might try to note comrade...but that's, coincidently enough, French in origin), and its original meaning was just relaying the fact it was the majority party <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .