A Conversation for The H2G2 French Language Help Desk
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Lou, (Listy) Not around too much, don't be offended if I don't reply.. I'LL TRY! Posted Sep 16, 2003
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
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Reality Manipulator Posted Sep 18, 2003
17:23 18/09/03
Bonjour French Connection
Bonjour Lou
Bonjour Opti
Bonjour Loup
D'ou etes-vous(pl)?
Where are you from?
Je suis de Grays Thurrock in South East Essex.
I am from Grays Thurrock in South East Essex.
Kat
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Sep 19, 2003
Bonjour Kat
hello kat
Je m'apelle opti et j'habite pres d'oxford en Angleterre
I am called opti and i live near Oxford in England
beaucoup des h2g2ers habitent en Angleterre aussi par exemple Je
lots of h2g2ers live in England too for example i
pense que Lou habite pres de Londre en Angleterre
think that Lou lives near to London in England
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Reality Manipulator Posted Sep 23, 2003
Bonjour monsieur loup
Bonjour mademoiselle opi
Bonjour mademoiselle lou
D'ou etes-vous, monsieur loup, madamemoiselle opi, mademoiselle lou?
Je suis de Grays-Thurrock, Essex.
please tell me what does et nous, nous sommes de corse. C'est une belle ile aussi mean?
Kat
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Reality Manipulator Posted Sep 23, 2003
Merci beaucoup Opti for your help.
Kat
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Sep 24, 2003
d'accord 'et nous, nous sommes de corse, c'est une bonne ile aussi' est
ok 'and you, you are of course, its a good island'
basically i think you meant that but you'll need loup to tell you whether i'm right or not... its a long time since i did french
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Sep 24, 2003
whats thats ok in french? ok i may have swallowed a third of a french dictionary lol but i can't remember that one
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Loup Dargent Posted Sep 24, 2003
"of course" is unfortunately not "de corse" but is "bien sur"....
"de corse" would be translated as "of/from corsica"... like Napoleon in a way...
Oh and as you might have noticed i'm [kinda] back <./>online</.>...
Don't know for how long though... and i won't say here what happened with my PC as the laughter from the lurkers would make it impossible to hear what we are saying...
Je suis de France mais j'habite Southend-sur-Mer....
[I am from france but i live in Southend-on-Sea...]
Got some interesting stuff from my tutoring last monday...
Will post some relatively soon...
I've used some of the links i'm supposed to add to the HelpDesk page and we had some interesting surprises... Considering that they are BBC links, a lot of translations were not up to scratch...
But, if that provides us with some stuff for discussions on here that's a good thing in a way...
The main point being that if mistakes are made by the BBC writers in their French course pages, then nobody should worry about making mistakes on here... and, as i said before [or i think i said] any clarification/question is welcome... It helps all of us and that includes [i hope] the lurkers...
Does anyone want more French nursery songs [in French]?!... I'll try to find back the website i surfed a while ago if anyone is interested....
all the best everyone...
Talk soon... a bientot [see you soon]...
loup
Oh, i almost forgot: 
for everyone's efforts...
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Loup Dargent Posted Sep 24, 2003
Au fait, on dit "okay" aussi en France... mais "d'accord" est mieux...
[By the way, we say "okay" as well in France... but "d'accord" is better...]
Now, having said that, i'm not sure if we spell it "ok" or "okay"... and that was in my days [as in: quite a long time ago 
]...
A bientot [see you soon]...
loup
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Reality Manipulator Posted Sep 25, 2003
Bonjour monsieur loup
Bonjour mademoiselle Opti
Comment alez vous?
Merci beaucoup loup, si vous plait Francais nursery rhymes.
Mademoiselle Kat
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rcurls Posted Oct 3, 2003
Salut
I want to join in please! O level French followed by many years singing in French (we're talking the likes of Verlaine, not terribly appropriate for today but still...). So I understand a lot but am terribly nervous about using it myself.
Comme Mmelle Kat, je suis ecossaise. (It's the Auld Alliance, alive and kicking!)
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Reality Manipulator Posted Oct 4, 2003
Merci beaucoup Rcurls, Je suis only starting to apprendre Francais. Je avec had only two lessons, so far.
Bien tout
Kat
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Reality Manipulator Posted Oct 4, 2003
Merci beaucoup Rcurls, Je suis only starting to apprendre Francais. Je avec had only two lessons, so far.
Bien tout
Kat
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Oct 5, 2003
Ok I know I'm picky but I thought I'd try and help you out with what you wanted to say in french (hope thats ok with you).
Merci beaucoup Rcurls, Je recemment commencer apprendre le francais. J'ai seulement deux cours a ce moment.
Thanks Rcurls, I recently started learning french. I've only had two french lessons at the moment.
Anyway I'm not much better than you as loup can see. oh are you the kat adie in the media?
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Reality Manipulator Posted Oct 5, 2003
Merci beaucoup Opti for your very kind help and assistance. Loup has not been here for a while.
Kat
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Reality Manipulator Posted Oct 5, 2003
Opti I used to be a type of Kate Adie, I used to travel alot but that was over 8 years ago, travelling from Ayrshire to Southampton on my own. Since then I have led a very quite life.
Kat
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The French Connection Posted Oct 5, 2003
Hi all,
I think a good way to say what you wanted in French would be, 'Je suis débutant(e) en français. Je n'ai eu que 2 leçons.
although if you don't fancy that past tense, you use:
'Blah, blah... - 2 leçons seulement.'
Bonne soirée à tous
a+
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Reality Manipulator Posted Oct 5, 2003
Merci Beaucoup The French Connection using the wprd debutante sounds very sophisticated.
Kat
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Opticalillusion- media mynx life would be boring without hiccups Posted Oct 6, 2003
Je suis heureux
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