Who knows French?

[Drev]

Got a test tomorrow. Mostly over family members words and avoir verbs. :/

Any help would be nice. :(

[Bass]

What kind of help? I'm in my fourth year of French so I know enough to get by on tests, but I'm not sure what questions you have.

[Terra]

I love French!!

That is all.

[soundtest]

i live in montreal so i know a bit... but when i speak french they respond in english. is it an oral test?

[Terra]

If it's french it is.

winkwinknudgenudge

French is sexy

[Bass]

That's why I started taking French, to impress the ladies, but unfortunately I have yet to meet a chick (in person) that digs French.

[Sethomas]

You're doing avoir? Tell me you just started french a few weeks ago. Unless you mean like "J'ai avait eusse la pomme" or whatever.

That being said, the best way to get the family words down is to have long known them in Spanish or Latin. Umm, think "my mom is a female horse". Mare/mère, get it? Jesus, this hurts my head since the family vocab is so fucking easy. IT'S ALL COGNATES!

[Jeanette X]

I wish I could help, but I haven't taken French for years and I nearly failed it when I was. Good luck in any case.

[kahljorn]

Sethomas is so smart everything is easy to him! ITS ALL COGNATES.

[Sethomas]

I didn't realize that outside of my ivory tower words like "oncle" and "cousine" pose such a pitfall for aspiring francophones. :blah

[Bass]

Yeah, the family members are pretty easy.... even if you haven't taken any French, it still shouldn't be a problem... the hardest one would probably be 'frere' since it doesn't sound like 'brother,' but the rest sound like their English equivavlent.

[MLE]

the song title "frere jaques" means brother john. or jack. it was translated as john, but i think it's jack. well.. that's not the important part.

maybe that'll help you remember what frere means.

[Bass]

To help with remembering the avoir forms, either put it to music (what I did) or remember when you say how old somebody is, since you're saying they have however many years.

[McMock]

Yes like all Belgians I'm perfectly triligual.

Here's your avoir:
J'ai
Tu as
Il a
Nous avons
Vous avez
Ils ont.

And here's your relatives. I assume you only want the easy ones because this sounds like beginners french to me.

Brother = frere
Mother = mere
Sister = soeur
Father = père
Baby = bébé
Grandpa = Grand père
Grandma = Grand mere

Why the hell you're asking people on the internet for this, I don't understand but there you have it.

[the_dudefather]

do you have to do a small conversation about your relatives. even tho i did french, like 6-7 years ago i can still remember some of it as its been burnt into my memory for all time.

[Dole]

Vous Encouler!

[glowbelly]

moo rear!

[kahljorn]

Donde esta el bano

[the_dudefather]

mange poisson avec moi

[dreaddi]

All past tense stuff is formulated with "avoir" ("j'ai acheté un pomme") except for these ones:

http://www.miracosta.edu/home/mclark/PasseC2.gif
and also "arriver" and "passer"

which are formed with "être" :posh

[Carnivore]

Pardon my French, but you're a dumbass.

[Studio8]

This is so cool.

[sadie]

no hablo francais. :(

[kellychaos]

I've taken three years of high school french and three semester in college. And what did I learn about language classes? That there really is not a whole lot to UNDERSTAND about another language. I received A's in all those classes and got by on pure memorization. I barely remember any of it. Sure, if I were to pick up a some book with french text, I'd understand most of it but to speak conversationally ... not hardly. I'm of the opinion that to really learn a language, you have to immerse yourself in it to the point where your very existence depends on the fact that understand the language ... i.e. actually living in France, Belgium, Quebec, ect.

[Bass]

I already have a job lined up so that I'll be able to live in France in a couple of years. Hopefully I'll be able to become fluent after staying there for a while.

[Anonymous]

i took french for 8 years and all I know is how to swear in ukrainian

[Esuohlim]

Le Petit Prince is a faggoty book.

[Drev]

I took the test, and it wasn't hard.

First was an oral part where the teacher said a word and you must decide if it is masculin or femanine, but with none of the un/une la/le, just the word. Then a similar one but we had to circle the masculine or femanine word (she said the world for good, so we had to circle either bon or bonne)

Then we had family members. That was easy. Then a review of etre. Then avoir. Then -er verbs like voyager and nager. Then a cultural section about french hotels and families (like how the average has 2 children and such)

It was easy. I hope I did good. Last test I got a 75. :(

[kahljorn]

i took french when i was in 11th grade, but that also just so happens to be the year i dropped out of highschool.

[ThisIsWitty]

nager


Nagger

[RedLeader01]

So Drev, how did the test go? You forgot to tell us (in Enlglish please). I can't speak French, so I use the Altavista World Translator: http://babelfish.altavista.com/

[RedLeader01]

Ooops, sorry about that, didn't scroll down far enough on the 2nd page.

[GADZOOKS]

That mistake was fatal!

[Jixby Phillips]

Le Petit Prince is a faggoty book.

the movie made me cry :(