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Parlez vous francais?

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    #32
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭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.


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    #33
    Gran Hermano
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    Un petit pois, Rodders.


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    #34
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭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.


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    #35
    Carry
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    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.


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    #36
    CaliforniaDream
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    Oui, je parle francais:

    Irlande douze points. Ireland twelve points.


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    #37
    Sunnyisland
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    Bom dia.


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    #38
    fizzypish
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    Ik leer nederlands


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    #39
    Peregrine
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    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.


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    #40
    ectoraige
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    Ou-est le Centre de George Pompidou?


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    #41
    Creative Juices
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    I loved French at school. I found it much more "interesting" than Irish.


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