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Randaconda posted:What about Cajun French That's where the flavor is.
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bike tory posted:This has actually popped up on my Facebook and that isn't actually the full video. The egg does end up getting smashed Why?
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Jul 26, 2019 01:20
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They couldn't make it any bigger.
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Jul 26, 2019 01:21
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for the record france is chill and awesome as hell and if they act like an rear end hole to you, everyone acts like an rear end hole to you because guess what, you are also an rear end hole
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Jul 26, 2019 01:27
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The number of excellent potential thread titles that have come up and been ignored while the current terrible thread title stands is an embarrassment.
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Jul 26, 2019 01:29
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I lived in France for two years and some of the people I met there I count among my very best friends. On the whole, though, I think I left with less tolerance for French society than when I arrived.
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Jul 26, 2019 01:35
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bike tory posted:This has actually popped up on my Facebook and that isn't actually the full video. The egg does end up getting smashed Thank you. That was going to keep me up all night wondering.
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A bunch of my peace corps friends who learned French in Africa have been asked by French people, "why do you speak French like a black person," so that's the best accent to have. Paris is maybe the biggest tourist destination in the world, so I can understand if locals are a little fed up with people who don't speak French at the end of the day. What that dude said about needing to say please and thank you is definitely why people come back saying how great Paris was except for all the Parisians. If you want a chill vacation, spend one or two days max in Paris and then go literally anywhere else in France. Driving and biking both kick rear end in France because they're all way better at driving than Americans and super courteous to cyclists and pedestrians.
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Jul 26, 2019 01:50
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This one's still good advice.
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Jul 26, 2019 01:58
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S'il vous plaît is one of less than a dozen French phrases I know. I'm ready to go to France
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Mauser posted:A bunch of my peace corps friends who learned French in Africa have been asked by French people, "why do you speak French like a black person," so that's the best accent to have. African accents in general just sound badass.
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Jul 26, 2019 02:22
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Elysiume posted:S'il vous plaît is one of less than a dozen French phrases I know. I'm ready to go to France I don't remember much, but I can drat well tell people le poisson est sur la table. Let's go!
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Jul 26, 2019 02:23
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Bertrand Hustle posted:African accents in general just sound badass. West African French is also super easy for an American ear compared to French French and everybody is your friend using the informal tu instead of vous, outside of government meetings.
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My speaking French in France story is actually the opposite of many of those here: On my backpacking world tour about 15 years ago, I was in the youth hostel in Paris, and I was negotiating the particularly complicated ways of this hostel, (where the bathrooms were, what time was breakfast, what I had to do etc.), in my half remembered year 12 French. Whilst I am dealing with the woman at the desk, from behind me comes a loud, American accented, native speed English yell of "Hey, I'm in room 325, we need new towels can you tell us where to find them?" And the woman at the desk, looks up from helping me, and answers in perfect English. She had been patiently allowing me to muddle through in my pidgin French, (slowing down and using easier words when/if I didn't understand), when all the while she could have just as easily spoken to me in English. Because I am a pretentious arsehole, I thanked her for letting me practice my language skills. As to restaurants/shops/people outside, most people were polite/understanding enough, and would also let me muddle through trying to scrape up the few words I knew. As a penance for that boring useless story have some slightly funny pictures:   
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Jul 26, 2019 02:45
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JoelJoel posted:This, but québécois French. Is there any way to learn this short of immersion? Passable enough if I ever go to France but mainly to piss off English speaking only Canadians at LAX.
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Tony Snark posted:Is there any way to learn this short of immersion? Passable enough if I ever go to France but mainly to piss off English speaking only Canadians at LAX. Speak every fourth word in English and you're half way to both Quebecois french and Canadian Punjabi
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bike tory posted:This has actually popped up on my Facebook and that isn't actually the full video. The egg does end up getting smashed Smashmouth, you had one job
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Captain Jesus posted:A receptionist in a camp in Bretagne refused to speak english to us even though it was later revealed she spoke it. She even snickered something along the lines of "you came to France speaking no french". Before that I thought the stories about smug frenchies like that were a myth! I went to Paris and at one point ordered a hot chocolate in what I thought was decent, or at least recognizable French. I was handed a croque monsieur. My wife saw the look on my face and told the guy "No, he ordered a hot chocolate! "  She loves telling that story.
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BrigadierSensible posted:She had been patiently allowing me to muddle through in my pidgin French, (slowing down and using easier words when/if I didn't understand), when all the while she could have just as easily spoken to me in English. Because I am a pretentious arsehole, I thanked her for letting me practice my language skills. I've noticed this a lot in Spain. Waiters in particular will politely listen to people attempt to place their orders in Spanish, and ask all the right prompting questions in Spanish, then at the end, repeat the person's order back to them in English, just to be sure there were no miscommunications. As for the French: my mother is French, but speaks perfect English. When we're in France and people ask for directions to a place they've hideously mispronounced, she corrects their pronunciation, and if they don't attempt to pronounce it correctly, she won't give them directions ("No, sorry, never heard of the No-der Dayme cathedral"). But put in the tiniest amount of effort, and she's happy to be super helpful.
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Jul 26, 2019 03:15
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JoelJoel posted:This, but québécois French. Watch the show A Very Secret Service (Aux le Service du France). They have some Quebecois separatists come over and the French can't understand them at all. They Quebecois get so pissed at their condescension that they storm out and go to Algeria to train as terrorists. It's really a pretty funny show. The accents of Americans and Quebecois are so pronounced even I could tell them from the French.
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Elysiume posted:S'il vous plaît is one of less than a dozen French phrases I know. I'm ready to go to France I heard she wrote some decent poems before sticking her head in an oven.
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Lady Disdain posted:As for the French: my mother is French, but speaks perfect English. Man, can you imagine if somebody had posted in here "My mother's a true American, and when a foreigner tries to talk to her with less-than-perfect pronunciation, she politely corrects them until they're speaking correctly, at which point she will help them. Of course, if they don't say it right, she tells them to gently caress off." 
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Jul 26, 2019 03:23
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I saw My Cousin Vinnie in French in Montreal on opening night on a school trip. The audience was loving HOWLING at the French/NY accent, which I guess is a thing? Blew our Anglophone minds. e. I still remember the two minutes of interrupted laughter after the "two yutes" line, but in French: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vp1t6yBpSM&t=3695s Dillbag has a new favorite as of 03:49 on Jul 26, 2019 |
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Jul 26, 2019 03:43
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John Lee posted:Man, can you imagine if somebody had posted in here "My mother's a true American, and when a foreigner tries to talk to her with less-than-perfect pronunciation, she politely corrects them until they're speaking correctly, at which point she will help them. Of course, if they don't say it right, she tells them to gently caress off." Things are only rude when Americans do it, keep up
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Jul 26, 2019 03:52
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Sorry about your lovely mom dude.
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FreeMars posted:On French chat, I proposed to my now wife in Paris and I speak a little French so we got by ok. The only time we got the stereotypical french snootiness was 2hen my wife ordered a hamburger. The waiter was insulted and yelling at here about us coming all the way to France for a burger. ...was there a hamburger on the menu? Because that piece of information might help determine who the jerk was here. Measly Twerp posted:How do you say "verry well, I'll butcher your mother tongue then" in French? How old were the people you were talking to? My experience in Bulgaria was that everyone was friendly enough, but if you didn't know Bulgarian you had to speak to people who went to school before about 1990 in Russian, and people who went to school after about 1990 in English.
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Jul 26, 2019 04:04
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mods, change my name to Beerepoot
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Jul 26, 2019 04:06
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Change mine to Beerepoot McKinley.
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Jul 26, 2019 04:32
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actually make mine Fanny Beerepoot, that's a better name
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Elysiume posted:S'il vous plaît is one of less than a dozen French phrases I know. I'm ready to go to France The only thing you need to know how to say is "Je sais manger le verre; cela ne me fait pas mal.".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hrUGFhsXo
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ultrafilter posted:The only thing you need to know how to say is "Je sais manger le verre; cela ne me fait pas mal.".  That was one of the links I included on babby's first homepage back in '95.eta: "Je peut manger," I think Hirayuki has a new favorite as of 05:27 on Jul 26, 2019 |
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:...was there a hamburger on the menu? Because that piece of information might help determine who the jerk was here. Yes, there was a burger on the menu. When my wife asked what he suggested, he said the ravioli. We were both pretty sure that was Italian, but were not prepared to die on that particular hill.
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Jul 26, 2019 05:22
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If it was made there then it's French
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Samuringa posted:If it was made there then it's French Unless it's from the Raviol region of Italy, it's simply a type of pasta comprising a filling enveloped in thin pasta dough.
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Samuringa posted:If it was made there then it's French It wouldn't that also apply to the hamburger on the menu?  All I remember about French class is watching the episode of The Simpsons when Bart goes to France. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUSGPubsxcM
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ante posted:Unless it's from the Raviol region of Italy, it's simply a type of pasta comprising a filling enveloped in thin pasta dough. "Sparkling Hot Pocket"
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