My 20 year battle to become fluent in German is well documented within the blog, a battle that continues to both stretch me ... and create a lot of fun. However in a case of, in for a penny in for a Euro; myself and my family are having a bash at learning French.
This definitely has me on the back foot given that I was not allowed to continue with French at school, "not clever enough!" I was told, but to be fair even when I was doing it, my text book, "De Jour en Jour," remained literally and figuratively, very much a closed book. However working on Alex Dumas's assertion that English is basically French but wrongly pronounced, I'm having a bash, so ..... Regardez vous le espace*
Ok, any attempt to translate "watch this space" is going to be difficult, can anyone help?
funny stuff - do you need any software for that Mr youthblog?!
Hi Si,
at the moment I am learning via "Michel Thomas" French in the Now Reading section of the side bar ... and the BBC web site!
but its frustrating as I want to be able to courir before I can promenade
Zut alors, mon brave!
Je pense que c'est fantastique que tu veux parler en Francais. Peut'etre nous pouvions jouer "le scrabble" en francais en quelque jours/semaines??
Zut alours oui mes ami
Je pense que le scrabble en français ne fonctionnera pas.
idée amusante, il est
ou et la gare?
Ian
email me your address [simonhodgkins@yahoo.co.uk] & I'll send you over a disc or two - the joys of working for an educational publisher ;)
Scrabble DOES work in France (and Germany and Spain and Italy) but not US. And Si, any discounts as I need a quick crash course in Spanish and Italian ?
Ian, you do know you only need to know 'My helicopter is full of eels' to get by in France don't you ?
I thought your closing comment was encouraging us to look at your Renault People-carrier...
Nick, that reminds me of someone I once met who had been to France to buy a car, At a garage they asked to see some citroens BUT due to an error of pronunciation (and much to their confusion) were shown a succession of yellow cars.
stu p - just email me with some postal address details & what you want & I'm sure I can sort something out for you mon ami
Desole mon ami pour reponder trop tard.
C'estpossible dejouer Le scrabble en francais mais c'est tres difficile sur le Facebook! A la conference peut-etre!
You have very useful friends... Si - I'm going to Peru for the diocese in the summer - do they do Spanish discs too???
La gare EST pres du chateau