Parlez vous francais?

The Backwards Man

I've found myself in a very gallic mood, I didn't realise my French teacher had rubbed anything off on me until ce soir, but oui, je suis un linguiste.

What languages can you converse in, good members of AH?

Ihatecuddles

Wee.

Nein

DamagedTrax

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I've found myself in a very gallic mood, I didn't realise my French teacher had rubbed anything off on me until ce soir, but oui, je suis un linguiste.

i wish my old french teacher rubbed off me.. she was well gamey.. oh lá lá :cool:

keith16

I speak fluent bullshit.

shruikan2553

I'm terrible at languages unless I'm in an area that uses the actual language. I can speak Java better than Irish.

The Backwards Man

Ihatecuddles wrote: »

Wee.

Apparently, and don't quote me on this, the french for 'wee' is 'Special K'

Sir Arthur Daley

Dung.

The Hill Billy

A bit of French, a bit of German, a bit of Swiss German & more Russian swear words than you can shake a stick at.

I can order a beer in 6 or 7 others.

The Backwards Man

DamagedTrax wrote: »

i wish my old french teacher rubbed off me.. she was well gamey.. oh lá lá :cool:

Mine swanned off to Italy with a fancy man, the day before she left, I wrote 'Come sta bambino?' on the blackboard. This was in the days before google translate or even the internet, I am extremely proud of that interlude.

thelad95

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I've found myself in a very gallic mood, I didn't realise my French teacher had rubbed anything off on me until ce soir, but oui, je suis un linguiste.

What languages can you converse in, good members of AH?

Until you found his cum on your sleeve..?

The Backwards Man

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Dung.

Merde

Mountainsandh

Oui, je suis francaise donc c'est facile... Je parle aussi un petit peu espagnol, et je comprends un peu l'italien. Par contre je ne parle pas du tout anglais

Sir Arthur Daley

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Merde

Le backwards man parle beaucoup de merde.

The Backwards Man

Mountainsandh wrote: »

Oui, je suis francaise donc c'est facile... Je parle aussi un petit peu espagnol, et je comprends un peu l'italien. Par contre je ne parle pas du tout anglais

personne n'aime un spectacle hors

Turtyturd

Swahili

Also a bit Southsoide Dublinese, once you get past the pretentious accent it's not too difficult loike.

Mountainsandh

Sir A D Say mierdasse, that's even better.
Hey, I just realized we can swear all we want "en francais" here, anyone want bad words, bande de connards ?

Mountainsandh

The Backwards Man wrote: »

personne n'aime un spectacle hors

Personne n'aime Les craneurs

Un spectacle hors is a show outside, banane. (That's French for big eejit)

I can never show off in other threads, you looked for it OP, I'm gonna let it all out, I'm gonna, i'm ... Je vais me coucher.

The Backwards Man

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Le backwards man parle beaucoup de merde.

The French have no word for 'turf'. Philistines!

Clankatron

Je comprends le français quand il est parlé lentement, mais je ne le parle pas très bien. Si je suis ivre, alors mon français est excellent.

Sir Arthur Daley

The Backwards Man wrote: »

The French have no word for 'turf'. Philistines!

Thats because there is no bogs in france, just wine and cheese.

feargale

The Backwards Man wrote: »

The French have no word for 'turf'. Philistines!

Have they a word for bog?

shruikan2553

feargale wrote: »

Have they a word for bog?

Irlande.

The Cool

Je parle francais, hablo español, comprendo italiano, ach tá mo Ghaeilge beaganín shíte when I'm sober.

Mountainsandh

La tourbe, une tourbiere.

debabyjesus

Ta beagan gaelige agam, je parle un peu de francais, je suis marie a un grenouille. I also speak dacent bogger so i does.

feargale

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Irlande.

And a word for lack of self esteem?

debabyjesus

feargale wrote: »

And a word for lack of self esteem?

Nice ninja edit there fella

the_syco

keith16 wrote: »

I speak fluent bullshit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj2KSiEeCcM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuXdhow3uqQ

I have a friend who's fluent in five languages and conversational in two more. Oddly enough he's tried learning Irish and says it's the toughest language he's encountered!

My English is fluent, my Irish is ok, my French is poor and my everything else is hopeless. I'm learning Spanish, German and Danish with Duolingo though, so I can speak very basic sentences in those languages. I also know a tiny bit of Mandarin (I can say hello, goodbye, thank you, excuse me, the days of the week, the months of the year and I can count to ten....I can also say "Garfield" and "Angry Birds"!) and I know a handful of sentences in Icelandic.

I'd love to be properly fluent in another language someday.

biketard

Can survive in French, actually pretty decent at Spanish. I can just about get by here in Taiwan with my comical Chinese skills.

I've tried several times (including right now) to learn Irish and can never get past the pronunciation chapter.

feargale

From personal experience, starting from scratch, I would equate 3 years of a high standard of school and university study with 3 months living in a country that speaks the relevant language.

Gran Hermano

Un petit pois, Rodders.

feargale

debabyjesus wrote: »

Nice ninja edit there fella

Indeed. I would have thought there might be a iittle spring in our step after the 1-1 in Germany and a budget which, whatever one says, wasn't as bad as recent ones.

Carry

Typisch deutsch gebe ich jetzt etwas an: Lingua latina loquo (more or less, and no, I’m not a priest), mon français est acceptable, el español es suficiente, e mia conoscenza della lingua italiana è bastato per ordinare vino. Or whatever.

Drop in a bit of Greek, some Polish and Russian, the odd word and expression in Irish, some Arabic, Turkish and Jiddish words and you have the typical world citizen interested in all sorts of cultures.

Aren‘t languages just a thing of wonder?

The German philosopher Fichte once said that „language is the soul of a people“.

Destroy a people’s language and you destroy their soul. Learn their language and you understand them beyond verbal communication.

The Irish should know it better than anyone else.

CaliforniaDream

Oui, je parle francais:

Irlande douze points. Ireland twelve points.

Sunnyisland

Bom dia.

fizzypish

Ik leer nederlands

Peregrine

I only know Leaving Cert level French. As for Irish, not even LC level.

Being a 'furriner', I am bilingual though. But English is pretty much my mother tongue now.

ectoraige

Ou-est le Centre de George Pompidou?

Creative Juices

I loved French at school. I found it much more "interesting" than Irish.