At least you can read english, the comic might be a little confusing otherwise.

Welcome.

Everyone starts from zero, so you don't have to worry or apologize. You seem to be doing well already (especially if you've been a longtime fan of the comic)!
If you want, I can give you help or tips to use. I don't know much french myself, but I'll offer what I can.

Welcome to the forums!

Merci ^^

I understand what you mean.
I don't really have problems to understand or to read but when I am speaking or writing I always afraid to use a wrong word or to say something clumsy. ^^'

Definitely agreed, speaking and writing is a lot harder than hearing/reading, at least in my experience.

Quick notes, pals:
pityful: When adding -ful or -ed to words that end in -y, the y is replaced with an i (pitiful, pitied). Though, if you're adding -ing, the y stays a y (pitying - this one confused me for a while).

foreighn->foreign


(I fail at formatting.)

-- Edited by LadyTwilight at 02:24, 2009-02-10

Oops..."pitiful"...got it...

Thanks Lady Twilight

Elpis wrote:

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I took french in HS remembering what I learned might be a problem...( tries remembering what I learned 2 years ago) nope nothing at all.

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Ohyeah? Well, I took french in HS, and couldn't remember what I learned by the second year of it!

gappiee wrote:

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I thought it looked weird I just didnt know how to get it right ^^ ... but wheres the rest of my last post =/

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Did you try to use a less-than sign (the flip of > )?
That's snagged me a bunch of times on these very forums... if you try to use one without closing it with a >, the rest of your post will simply vanish.


You're quite welcome!

I still kind of understand basic french but being able to respond is a different story.

Ah, my bad. I use HS as an abbreviation for 'high school'. Sorry for the confusion ^ ^;;

There is many more, you know....^^;

-- Edited by Major-HXH at 07:15, 2009-02-16

I lstarted earning russian 5 years ago so now I do not have many problems to use this langage. (But I do not speak russian perfectly neither ^^;). But the first lessons are the worst ones. You have the learn the Cyrillic alphabet (more than 30 letters). And you learn the most basic word which is, unfortunately, one of the most difficult. It is simply the translation of "hello" which is "zgpabmbyucme" (many Cyrillic letters and Latin letters looks alike but we do not pronunce them in the same way). I can not show you how to pronunce it ^^ but it is not easy at all.

Then you have to learn grammar, declension, conjugation and vocabulary....a lot of vocabulary... T_T

You are totally right. It is much better to learn a language by speaking it with someone else.

I also took latin years ago but now I stugy ancient Greek which is a bit like Latin but again with an other alphabet

I have never been really interrested in Japanese but I heard there are many dialect, right ? Or I confuse with Chinese... Well I do not know.

I always wonder how Japanese "work". Each sign means an idea or something like that, does it ?

-- Edited by Major-HXH at 13:52, 2009-02-18

Latin was partially based on Greek, wasn't it?

(moving above babble) How fluent are you two in your languages?

Chinese has at least one variant (Mandarin) of the spoken language to my common knowledge; beyond that, wikipedia is your friend! I know Japanese has a couple regional dialects (is 'regional dialects' redundant?), but don't know much about them, other than a couple substitutions one uses.

Hah... The 'straightforward' I mentioned didn't extend to the written form, which is way beyond my current level (though it seems easier than Latin! ...maybe). There's symbols for a...lot of things. Most words are made up of more than one, too (1~4 I think I've seen so far?)

A lot of words share symbols, and a lot of symbols share sounds. So you end up with teacher/doctor, upperclassman, foresight, and last week (sensei, senpai, senken, senshuu) starting with the same symbol, and then you have train track, election, affidavit, and melody (senro, senkyo, senseisho, senritsu), which all have different symbols for their 'sen'.

Sometimes if you look hard enough, you can find connections, though. That first set above, along with a couple other that use that symbol, generally refer to a person, time, or thought related to the past. But then, 'athelete' has the same 'sen' as 'election', so...*shrug*

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I'd still take it over Latin.

-- Edited by LadyTwilight at 18:14, 2009-02-19

LadyTwilight wrote:

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Latin was partially based on Greek, wasn't it?

(moving above babble) How fluent are you two in your languages?

Chinese has at least one variant (Mandarin) of the spoken language to my common knowledge; beyond that, wikipedia is your friend! I know Japanese has a couple regional dialects (is 'regional dialects' redundant?), but don't know much about them, other than a couple substitutions one uses.

Hah... The 'straightforward' I mentioned didn't extend to the written form, which is way beyond my current level (though it seems easier than Latin! ...maybe). There's symbols for a...lot of things. Most words are made up of more than one, too (1~4 I think I've seen so far?)

A lot of words share symbols, and a lot of symbols share sounds. So you end up with teacher/doctor, upperclassman, foresight, and last week (sensei, senpai, senken, senshuu) starting with the same symbol, and then you have train track, election, affidavit, and melody (senro, senkyo, senseisho, senritsu), which all have different symbols for their 'sen'.

Sometimes if you look hard enough, you can find connections, though. That first set above, along with a couple other that use that symbol, generally refer to a person, time, or thought related to the past. But then, 'athelete' has the same 'sen' as 'election', so...*shrug*

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I'd still take it over Latin.

-- Edited by LadyTwilight at 18:14, 2009-02-19

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hmmm im fluent in both dutch and german (dutch is the language spoken over here so it would be pretty bad if i couldnt speak it) and i dont speak any other languages i do understand a little french. i know some words from other languages but not enough to understand or speak them.

 

I am not really fluent in English or russian but as I travel a lot in Europe I can speak it with some people. I often go in Finland where many people speak russian and thank to the Channel Tunnel I can be in London in 4 hours

To LadyTwilight : Thank you for the explanations about Japanese langage =)

To Elpis : Latin and ancient Greek are very interresting but I think that the hardest is to start. I remember that I did not understand a thing to the first lessons but after a year it is much easier. At school we study the Odyssey and Illyade in Greek. It is not easy at all but interresting. =)

To Grappie : My family is of German origin but I do not speak a word of German langage ^^; I think I will learn it later ... Maybe... All I know is Danke !! ^^

To Seriouslybored : Muchas gracias ^^

I see that you said you are part German? O: I am 1/4th German and I can't speak it either. xD

Welcome to the forums as well!

I've got two years of mediocre French and two years of fun-but-not-very-good Latin under my belt. I think it would be fun to learn Gaelic or something like that, but it would be pretty tough to find a teacher.

BTW: welcome to the forums (even though you've been here longer than me ^^' )

...im supposedly learning French, but im far behind the rest of the class, haven't learned very much in my now soon two years...

something about learning french ..... and the last part means: is it not ?

am i right?? ^^

yay

well i think it means something like:
it is not easy to learn french .... is it not? ........ might also be the opposite though ..........=/

w00t im a genius ...... well i got it right thats pretty close to genius =P