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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 07:48 AM Aug 2019

Holy crap: I just came up with this French sentence on demand

"Ma belle-mère a acheté ces chaussures ici la semaine dernière, mais ils n'étaient pas disponibles. On devait les livrer ce semaine."

("ces" because I'm holding out a receipt.)

Amazing what some immersion will do. Even just a month ago I was pointing at things and grunting to make myself understood.

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Holy crap: I just came up with this French sentence on demand (Original Post) Recursion Aug 2019 OP
Where did you do your immersion? Sanity Claws Aug 2019 #1
We moved to Paris Recursion Aug 2019 #2
Wonderful Sanity Claws Aug 2019 #4
If you do, be ready for a really interesting dialect kedrys Aug 2019 #3
Thanks for the input Sanity Claws Aug 2019 #5
C'est si bon!!! elleng Aug 2019 #6

Sanity Claws

(21,822 posts)
1. Where did you do your immersion?
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 07:51 AM
Aug 2019

I have thought about doing it Quebec City or Montreal for two weeks. I thought it might be far less expensive and easier to adjust to than somewhere in France.

kedrys

(7,678 posts)
3. If you do, be ready for a really interesting dialect
Wed Aug 21, 2019, 08:10 AM
Aug 2019

A lot of it is French the way it was spoken in the 1700s.

True story: I attended university in the US and took a French class for an easy A. The prof, an American from Kansas who spoke absolutely flawless French, told me about coming to Montreal after graduating from La Sorbonne and being completely bewildered for about a week from the dialect. She mentioned this to her profs when she returned to France, and they snickered and thought it was hilarious - they knew full well we don’t speak international French.

That said, a friend from NC with three years of college French under her belt had little trouble getting by when she came to visit.

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