h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Oui, c'est un possibilit'e mais on peut constuire un skatingrink ici, non?

Yes, thats possible but we could construct a skating rink here, no?

J'ai comphrends le francais mais je pense que 'skating rink' = patinoire ou quelque chose comme ca

Oui, c;est vrai...

*note to self - make sure learn french before exams!*

Une patinoire it is...

Hi Opti, Lou and kat...

I will try to post on a more regular basis in the future... even if it's only one post a day it will still be something...

kat... yep.. ask away.. no problem... between the three of us we should be able to come up with some answers... that will help with my mondays tutoring as well as then i will have something to start the lesson with [i'm very good at improvising but it's always better to have something ready..] as i could look at some of the subjects/queries we've dealt with and elaborate from there... It's what i've done this week... well, ok it was from something i printed from the BBCi French pages [which i will add the links to on the Help Desk page soon]... there were only around ten short sentences on it but we got a good two hours lesson out of it... hehe..
I'm doing quite a lot of research on how to teach French at the moment... so any interesting findings, you guys will be the first to know about it...

I also had a try at the online translation from Google... Asked it to translate my space in French... the results were more than disappointing, even their mistakes were not consistent... Would that be an idea for an h2g2 kind of French lesson?!... I could point out the mistakes and explain how it would come out if the Google's French version was translated in English and how different/incomprehensible my space would be after that... I might have to not name Google though..
So, yes?!... no?!... I could do the work offline [and quicker] as i managed to find the link for the Guidepost which allows us to write an entry in GuideMl offline [link to be posted asap if needed].. Shame that only PC owners can download it, not sure if the local libraries would agree with downloading programs on their computers unfortunately...

Anyway, that was my first posting to this page for today [2:56am on the clock]... not exactly about French but then again there were some references about it....

Talk soon everyone...

loup

Merci beaucoup Loup, Lou and Opti. I have just received the outline of the course yesterday and I have a book to get but luckily I will not have to have it for the first lesson wich will give me time to order it from our local WH Smitths.

Opti and Lou ice skating, I have done my leg in.


Kat

Hi Kat...

What's the title of the book you will be using for your French course?!.. I've got a few books and was wondering if i've got that one... would be handy if it was as then we could help you even more efficiently...

Talk soon...

loup

Thank you Loup for your very kind help.

The book for the course is called Facon de parle 1.

Thank you


Kat

ok quick translation of the book is 'way of speak' ok loup is going to tell you the actual one i bet

fancy us all being online at the same time

My textbook was Tricolore... written by someone's parent at my school, a teachers mum or something

It was very very old

J'ai eu trois cours de francais ce jour
I had three lessons of french today
I know thats dodgy french, but still

Lou

I think I may know that book that you have told us about Lou what is pictured on the front?

Oh and Lou why aren't you on msn?

Erm, I'm not sure... there were 5 of them that I used

And then "Au Point" for year 12, and now "Boule De Suif" for my year 13 literature text

oooo, am I not on MSN? That would explain why people arent talking to me!
*checks*

Oh, brother must have turned off auto login

*signs in*

crikey ... I don't think I used as many as 5

Au point sounds familiar but not the one you are presently using

Nope you weren't on msn .... but I'm glad that you came online to talk to me

None of these books are in my collection...



Never mind... I'm sure we will cope somehow...

Oh and, i've managed to make my PC even more poorly than usual... memory problem somewhere [the PC's one not mine...] which doesn't allow me to be more than half an hour online without freezing... Still better than yesteday as then it was just five minutes []...

But i will still pop in as much as i can...

Now, to make my posting as French related as possible, just a little point: today is aujourd'hui... ce jour would be more this day... though it was easy to understand what was meant there... so it's

Talk soon everyone...

loup

Bonjour Loup, Lou, Opti comment allez vouz?

Ce jour Je will be having my Francois lessons at 13:00.



Kat

Bonjour Mademoiselle Opti

Bonjour Mademoiselle Lou

Bonjour Monsieur Loup

Je m'appelle Katrine

Je suis ecossaise

Je habite Grays




Kat

Bonjour!

Tes lessons de francais, ca va?

Hi!

How were your french lessons?

Bonjour Lou

Moi lessons were tres bien.

Merci beacoup


Kat

Fantastique!

Salut tout le monde,

Just droppin' by to say, 'Salut' (as the more astute among you will already have noticed, )

I'm a brit living in France, happy to talk about all things French or France-related, . I'm gonna subscribe to this main page, and probly over at the Language thing, too.

Regarding your use of 'ce jour', jedi, In most cases where English uses 'today', French will use >>Aujourd'hui<<. I know it's a b***er to remember how to spell, , but that's the word.

One tip on remembering where the apostrophe goes: think if it as >>on-the-day-of today<<, where 'on-the-day-of' is all one word. It's just the last bit that is tagged on.

Or is that just complicating matters?

Alors, n'hesitez pas à me poser des questions (punctual replies not promised, but efforts will be made, )

a+

Cool!

Btw, pls dont forget to translate... that last bit of French Connections post meant "dont hesistate to ask me any questions", if my french is not completely terrible (I hope not...a2 exams soon!!!!)


Lou