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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:21 am
 


How does one learn the French language?


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:43 am
 


I would highly recommend going to Quebec and taking a french immersion language program....I don't know how old you are, if your are in school or whatever....

There is a government program, where the gov't will pay for you to go to Quebec (or other places) for part of a summer to learn french....They pay the tuition and all living expenses....you just need money for booze....heh

The link is here.

I went to Chicoutimi last year, had an awesome time, and learned a tonne of french. I highly recommend it!


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:18 am
 


You're from Canada and you didn't learn French at school?

I got an A for it at school.


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Yeah your best bet is to jstu move to an all French area of Quebec, the best way is to take away your English and force yourself to speak French, it wont take more than a few weeks or months to get basic conversation down.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:25 am
 


Easy. Just date a french girl. You'll learn french in no time :)


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:28 am
 


How to Shampoo in French

A reference guide

by Con Chapman

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Forget Iraq, Derrida, and Jerry Lewis. It’s time to turn our attention to the principal remaining obstacle to Franco-American understanding: French shampoo labels.

You know what I’m talking about. You’re in the shower at a beach or ski house, someone is knocking on the door for his or her turn, and you find that your hostess, worldly sophisticate that she is, has stocked the bathroom with hair-care products from the nation that thinks snails are snacks.

When told to Moussez, nettoyez et répétez, l’un quel est pour faire? (What is one to do?)

You, dear reader, are in luck. The author took two years of French in high school, and most of a semester in college. What follows is a handy reference guide that, if properly laminated, you can take into the shower with you to avoid using the conditioner before the shampoo and spending the rest of your getaway weekend looking like your hair was flattened down with walrus fat. Commençons (Let us begin) our deconstruction of la bouteille typique de shampooing (the typical shampoo bottle).

Un Système nettoyant ultra doux, spécialement conçu pour protéger la longévité et l’éclat des cheveux colorés,” begins the tiny text on the back of a leading brand of shampoo Français.

French thinkers are systematic, and their approach to shampooing is no exception. This introductory phrase, literally translated, means that the shampoo you are about to use is part of an ultra-sweet cleaning system that is specially conceived for old protégées who eat pastries on colored horses. So far, so good.

The shampoo reconstructs damaged horses through the capillaries of the tiger, making the two animals stick together and thereby “revitalizing” them. (To put it mildly!)

Restores horses’ health and makes them smart. More of the same self-promotion. As anyone who has ever tried to read Proust knows, the French like to repeat themselves.

As with the English language, really important stuff in French is written in capital letters. Translation: “EMPLOYEES: Apply to the wet horses and make delicate massive cats. Good rinsing. Repeat with the needy.”

Here’s where things get tricky. After instructing us to wash various nonhuman creatures, the narrator tells us that he is opposed to the use of shampoo on animals. How can we reconcile this knotty contradiction? For that, one must use conditioner, which, as every schoolgirl knows, straightens out snarls and tangles. Let’s go to la bouteille typique de crème de la rinse:

Après le shampooing, frictionnez les cheveux et le cuir chevelu avec une petite quantité du produit—étalez dans les cheveux à l’aide d’un peigne. Laissez agir pendant 5 minutes. Rincez abondamment.”

Meaning: “After shampooing, rub your horse and its hairy leather with a little produce. Using a paintbrush, put the horse in its stall. Let him wear your necklace for five minutes. Then rinse him abundantly.”

Why do we do this? Because the conditioner contains des extraits purs de pollen d’abeillebee pollen. It is better for the horse to be shampooed indoors than to be outside and risk the painful swelling, or even death, that can come with a bee sting.

Voila! Nous comprenons! (We understand!)

What is meilleur de tout, or “best of all,” is that French beauty products are, as our shampoo bottle tells us, assez doux pour l’utilisation quotidienne” gentle enough to be used by boring people.

I hear one of them banging on the bathroom door right now.

www.theatlantic.com . . ..


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:32 am
 


GreatBriton GreatBriton:
You're from Canada and you didn't learn French at school?

I got an A for it at school.


There is a huge difference in getting an A in french class and learning to speak french....

Lots of french teachers in Ontario can't even speak french fluently.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 11:52 am
 


VitaminC VitaminC:
GreatBriton GreatBriton:
You're from Canada and you didn't learn French at school?

I got an A for it at school.


There is a huge difference in getting an A in french class and learning to speak french....

Lots of french teachers in Ontario can't even speak french fluently.


Same thing in Quebec. I had 98% average in English but when I started working in Ottawa, that's when I really learned it well. But learning is an ongoing project. I still learn as I go.

Go to my webpage...I started giving some quick lessons..... :wink:


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 12:07 pm
 


hmm you could go to Quebec for about 2 weeks.. speak only english... after you start to slowly starve to death.. you'll learn very quickly.. n'est pas


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:12 pm
 


Je atempte la imersion pour media fracais, mais Je ne pas requier la francais.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:37 pm
 


read the other side of the cereal box R=UP


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:24 pm
 


VitaminC VitaminC:
I went to Chicoutimi last year, had an awesome time, and learned a tonne of french. I highly recommend it!


You came to Chicouts for Explore? That's awesome. That's where I live. I originally came up here to spruce up my French as well, been here ever since. LOL.





PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:26 pm
 


Someones going for a necro-medal.





PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:28 pm
 


Vit C's been gone for over a year,dont think he will respond but then again....stranger things have happened here. :lol:


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:59 pm
 


but zig, youre also responding to the necropost..

doesnt that make you a necro, too ???

so the answer is to get a french girlfriend who doesnt speak english..

then you learn.. :)


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