I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

To change the subject - looks like an Aussie is going to win Le Tour.

I thought about posting 'honi soit qui mal y pense' on that other thread. I'm practicing my French for our trip Translation - shame to he who thinks evil - learnt it in school at age 13 and never forgot it.

This is the only phrase that I can remember without thinking:

I hope you have no need to use this phrase. 

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Susie, I doubt if you'll actually ever have occasion to use it while in France!  I'm trying to remember, but that is on the crest of something here in Canada.  Maybe the Armed Forces?

Lovely that an Aussie is going to win Le Tour de France -- something else for you to celebrate! 

Blue, luckily only remember it from two years of French class, never had to utilize the phrase, thank goodness.  It does strike me as weird that that's the phrase that I don't have to work to remember though.

rr - sorry if I seemed paranoid  But when Apple is reported- I mean really!!! well,

Hope everyone has a lovely, quiet, cool, evening.  We're on thunderstorm alert here too.  Mayeb tomorrow will be cooler.....

Apple .. can you ask the mods?  I'm sure they will restore your PM capability right quick.

Bren

But Bren, Apple can't PM the Mods to ask them!!!  What a Catch-22.

I'll PM the Mods...

Susieq, for me, the problem of speaking pales in comparison to the problem of hearing and absorbing at conversational speed. 

susieq, well good then you can have people write things down and take your time to absorb it.  You'll do fine.

Maybe we should take our son over with us. He's fluent - the little brat. He's a trained musician - piano and opera singing and he has the most fantastic ear, so his French is impeccable. But, he's stuck at home with the new baby and learning all about parenting. I'm actually enjoying hearing how they are coping (or not) - pays him back for the suffering he put me through for 5 months after he was born

I learned French about 25 years ago for a job I had at the time. Then they sent me to an English-speaking Caribbean country. The phrases I remember best are: "Avez-vous des chasseurs avec grosse semelles?" and "La route n'etait pas glissante du tout." Forgive my spelling ... We learned by the "listen and say" method rather than the "read and sound out" method. I can get myself fed and housed in French, but not carry on a conversation about current events....



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HappyLibby, Is that, "Do you have big shoes?"  And something about the road not being icy .   I am trying to figure out what job would have required, "Do you have big shoes?"

RR, the job didn't require shoes with thick soles -- they taught us sentences that contained phrases that would be useful ... Like "Avez-vous" (whatever)... They were more for illustrative purposes. The "grosses semelles" always struck me as particularly funny because of how it looks in English.



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