my bf is making me learn french

[fabulouslyghetto]

we have our heart set on honeymooning in Africa, I wanted to go to Morocco for some wild, primal, animalistic boot-knockin [no talking, just heavy breathing, grunting, and the echo of my fine round brown behind smacking his thighs when I throw it back at him] and we could catch a cruise ship to spain for even more adventures but he has some obnoxious problem with Moroccan people that I wasn't interested enough to listen to him explain. Anywhoot, he's insisting on us learning French because it's a common language in many African countries. I'm a Spanish girl, took it all four years in high-school and looooooved it, the language itself is sexy and the culture and history are so rich, I even got a perfect score on my senior final exam I still speak it regularly, when I was a cashier at Rite Aid, Sams Club and Target I spoke to hispanic and latin customers to keep it fresh, at least I could muster pleasantries and count, I must've pulled it off cuz lots of people asked me if I'm Dominican [which leads to another funny story where I was really bored at Rite Aid so I started talking to customers with random accents-- cockney, cajun, atlanta, new york, i said to my coworker "It'd be funny if somebody asked me where I'm from" and sure enough...... long story less long I played it off and made up a fake caribbean island]

anyways, yeah spanish is my thing I was never keen on french but i've started duolingo exercises and they're pretty edjumacational, ?bientot je vais etre de parler comme ca? pues, no me vale nada, el frances es para las pajaros, soy una chola en mi corazon.

 

[gsdx]

If it's any consolation, I've heard the French spoken in various parts of Africa and I can understand it well enough. Whatever French you learn, it should work there for you.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

If it's any consolation, I've heard the French spoken in various parts of Africa and I can understand it well enough. Whatever French you learn, it should work there for you.

It hadn't even occured to me that there are different dialects, I knew that is true of Spanish but in my naivete I presumed there was just one universal French. It's interesting how closely a lot of the words mirror Spanish, the words for "I" are phonetically similar, and as in Spanish a lot of words show derivation or similarity ie woman/feminine/femme. Still, it feels like much more of a chore than learning Spanish ever was. It's kind of surreal to be learning a third language, I thought I was the bees knees speaking two, though I'm aware lots of people especially outside America speak three or four.

 

[nycguydowntown]

I know some French

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I know some French

 

[gsdx]

It hadn't even occured to me that there are different dialects

I learned French in high school (5 years) and university (1 year). I was taught Parisian French. It's quite different than Quebec French. Much more formal. Still, you will probably be learning Parisian French and that will do nicely wherever you go in Africa. Besides, it won't take long at all to pick up the dialects.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I learned French in high school (5 years) and university (1 year). I was taught Parisian French. It's quite different than Quebec French. Much more formal. Still, you will probably be learning Parisian French and that will do nicely wherever you go in Africa. Besides, it won't take long at all to pick up the dialects.

what's slowing me down is the difference in pronunciation, my base is english which, of course, is a cornucopia of rules and exceptions to the rules and rules for the exceptions and exceptions for the rules for exceptions, I didn't really know linguistic stucture til I learned spanish, now I'm trying to cram a whole new set of vowel sounds, pronunciations et cetera into the mix. I lowkey wanna give up but I won't cuz my bf is an asshole he'll never let me live it down, and when we're at a restaurant and I can't read the menu or order the waiter speaks french, he'd let me starve since he took the time to learn it and I didn't

 

[bankside]

what's slowing me down is the difference in pronunciation, my base is english which, of course, is a cornucopia of rules and exceptions to the rules and rules for the exceptions and exceptions for the rules for exceptions, I didn't really know linguistic stucture til I learned spanish, now I'm trying to cram a whole new set of vowel sounds, pronunciations et cetera into the mix. I lowkey wanna give up but I won't cuz my bf is an asshole he'll never let me live it down, and when we're at a restaurant and I can't read the menu or order the waiter speaks french, he'd let me starve since he took the time to learn it and I didn't

I’m glad he’s an asshole. French is fantastic. You can honeymoon in Africa and also visit Canada. Save up, I did, and sometime before you die both of you stay at Chateau Montebello halfway from Montréal to Québec.

Also just saying Côte d’Ivoire with a beautiful French accent makes all the hassle of learning worth it!

 

[Draven]

Girl I've said it before, you don't need to be spending that kind of money on no Rosetta stone program just to go to the McDonald's and order up some French Fries. They speak English...mostly.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Girl I've said it before, you don't need to be spending that kind of money on no Rosetta stone program just to go to the McDonald's and order up some French Fries. They speak English...mostly.

spending money? heffa you tried it, I got da bootleg from my felonious ex-boo Rodney, you know he got da hookup on errythang, all I gotta do is let him stick his hand in my cookie jar a lil bit.

 

[bankside]

Oh and closer to home if you are a bit brave and intrepid then you can use your French in Haiti. I want to see the historic sites of the Haitian Revolution, a pivotal (perhaps the pivotal) victory over both Napoleon’s imperial tyranny, and the practice of slavery in the Americas.

 

[LilBit]

Tu pourrais suivre des cours avec moi si tu étais à Flagstaff.

 

[medic1]

As long as you remember to take along some "French letters"...........

 

[bankside]

As long as you remember to take along some "French letters"...........

Have never even heard that expression hinted at until this very moment. You could have called them Smurf Mittens and I would have had as much of an idea. Fascinating.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

I’m glad he’s an asshole. French is fantastic. You can honeymoon in Africa and also visit Canada. Save up, I did, and sometime before you die both of you stay at Chateau Montebello halfway from Montréal to Québec.

Also just saying Côte d’Ivoire with a beautiful French accent makes all the hassle of learning worth it!

Our honeymoon budget is gonna be massive cuz we're doing a small, simple ceremony for the wedding. I'd like to see Canada too some time, it's like America's older sibling that went to college and got a good job and was never caught smoking cigarettes behind the bleachers in high school.

 

[Draven]

You can visit Quebec; the know-it-all, faux-goth, "I visited Europe once and so now I know everything", hipster other sister of America.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

You can visit Quebec; the know-it-all, faux-goth, "I visited Europe once and so now I know everything", hipster other sister of America.

I hate you for that

 

[rareboy]

Quebecois french is not a good substitute for real french.

Thank goodness that I was able to drag out enough ecole secondaire francais in Morocco to get by quite easily.

 

[gsdx]

what's slowing me down is the difference in pronunciation

One thing you will find is that the attempt at speaking French is more important than the pronunciation. Most people have trouble with the guttural and nasal sounds which don't exist in English, but then we have sounds in English which the French don't have, such as 'th'.

After all these years of not speaking it, I'm barely conversational anymore, but I understand far more than I can speak. Same with sign language. I've lost a lot of that as well. As the saying goes, "Use it or lose it."

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Quebecois french is not a good substitute for real french.

Thank goodness that I was able to drag out enough ecole secondaire francais in Morocco to get by quite easily.

Sis you neva told me you'se a international hoe I thought you just worked the block.