AK_Thug AMish Posted September 28, 2004 Report Share Posted September 28, 2004 Seeing so many French topics, I thought it would be useful to find out who can speak French at what levels I am currently in French 5 at high school, with only 3 other people in my class (eHurldler being one of them). It is also the IB French class, so I have a nice big final exam in May to look forward to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilHurdle Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 would technically living in a bilingual country and taken preliminary french count as years of learning? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufinwe Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 (I am fluent in French ... have been learning French for ...... 26 years now and still learning things everyday ... Here to help anybody who needs it ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 As I understood the poll, you must be raised in that language as well (i.e. live in that language your everyday life). I was raised in French, so it's kind of my first language and the one I can use uncounsciously without thinking in another language.Well, so... For me, I said (deeply) fluent. I hope so.Note : It is also probable that my failling English also counts, though I wouldn't call it English anymore but Frenglish : I wasn't raised in that language, but my first 6 years I have lived mostly in English (except with my family and sometimes at school). I use that Frenglish uncounsciously, as if it were some language that I learned seperately. I tried some experiment (counting in that language). If you can count equations in some other language, it is said that it is deeply marked in your mind. For French, I have no doubt, but then I tried English and asked myself 40 times 40... I ended up saying naturally 1600 (pronounced sixteen hundred)... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akya Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I'm fluent in french as well, being born in french province, having parents who also speak french. But I can say I also have a tendency to mix english and french. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorian Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I've been doing French for a couple of years now but I'm still not very good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Japanese is way easier than French (Nihongo wa furansugo yori yasashii desu!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeru Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 I speak four languages but unfortunately French is not one of them. I'd love to learn it someday, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaas Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Officially I started learning French in school when I was 10-years-old, until I was 18-years-old, so that's 8 years. In reality I learned it since I was born since my dad was partly raised francophone (though he never spoke French to me, being a Flemish regionalist) and since I live in Belgium where 40% speaks French. Add to that that foreigners often think we all speak French in Belgium and that the Flemish use quite a lot of French words (we say salut if we say goodbye for example) I had my education since I was born.But that doesn't mean I speak French fluently. Never been a great student in that area, so I'm only fairly good at speaking it and mediocre at writing. But I can read and understand French very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkAngelBGE Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Well have been learning it for 6 years now, since I was 12. Mediocre at writing and good at speaking. Beginner at understanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaas Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Lol, how can you be a beginner at understanding if you're good at speaking? Atleast in my case in can speak it fairly well because I've listened to French a lot (tv, radio, on holiday, family), that's how I learned it. Just sounds strange the other way around, a bit artificial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufinwe Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 (Add to that that foreigners often think we all speak French in Belgium hence the American French Fries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkAngelBGE Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Lol, dunno, but it's probably my lack of knowledge of superior vocabulary?If I speak myself I use more or less plain French and then I am alright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufinwe Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 (it is the contrary for me ... I understand German better than I speak ... Wöllen sie einen Hunt für Weinachten? (I don't think this is even correct!!!!)But I sometimes watch ZDF on cable and I quite understand what the whole thing is about ... but I couldn't repeat what they just said ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaas Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Yeah when I was in South-Tirol this summer I could understand the people quite well, but speaking German was impossible. I've never learned it in school, I only know it from tourists here, tv/radio or holidays.Yeah the vocabulary can be a problem. It's not that hard for me since I hear French all the time and the Flemish use many French words, but I can imagine it's hard for a German native speaker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 In Japanese, my weak point is listening. I can read quite well for an official beginner as I am, and wrinting and speaking isn't so difficult. But listening is quite a pain, especially in anime, where they only speak casual, and there is a really great difference between casual and polite in Japanese. But it seems I'm not so bad.And vocabulary is indeed, and always, the problem, since when you got the trick to know your grammar (this is so easy in Japanese), you can say about anything. But you need the words...«Me de mienai! Mimi de kikoenai! Otetsudai itashimase! Otetsudai itashimase!» ( I can't see with my eyes, I can't hear with my ears! Please help me! Please help me!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK_Thug AMish Posted September 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Listening is probably the hardest, since those darn French speak so fast! Hopefully if I get to go to France this summer I could work on that.Around here, Frenglish is called Franglais All the kids at my school are horrible at it, I've been improving since I can normally describe words I do not know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted September 29, 2004 Report Share Posted September 29, 2004 Franglais and Frenglish... Only the French and English words for that mix. I myself is quite used to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akya Posted September 30, 2004 Report Share Posted September 30, 2004 me too I guess it's good when you control two languages and the people you talk to also know those two language. Then, when you don't remember a word in one language, you use the other. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_08 Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Lol!Don't know French a'tall, only Texan and a bit of Spanish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted October 1, 2004 Report Share Posted October 1, 2004 Puedo hablar un poco tambien! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion_13 Posted October 4, 2004 Report Share Posted October 4, 2004 Well I started learning french in year 5 and have learned it each year (in year 7 I only did it for 2 weeks)since then (I am in year 9 now) and easily get the same test scores and sometimes even beat the person who is french and grew up in france. Apperantly the part of my brain which learns languages is extra good or something but I still dont know enugh to do alot. I am restricted to what I have been taught. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufinwe Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 (@ Red_08 ... is Texan, at last, recognized as a language on its own? Back on Topic, I am really surprised that they still learn French in Australia. I once read an article saying that French is now overtaken by Chinese or Japanese in Aussie schools ... A pity for me, but I can clearly understand why ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 There are 60 people in my Japanese class!!!!!!! I wanted to be alone... Seems it's not possible. (And I live in Montreal... I wonder in Vancouver!!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted November 4, 2004 Report Share Posted November 4, 2004 Yeah, i don't speak French and by that i mean, i don't know any. I know how to say yes and that is about it. I only know English (American English) and some Spanish being a Califonian. As a matter of fact, i just went into these forums to see if any Spanish speakers could help me with my Spanish homework. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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