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Thoughts on french as a language from non-native speakers? What peeves or irks you?

>> No.9345986

It makes my dick hard.

>omelette du fromage

>> No.9345992
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9345992

>tfw no French gf

>> No.9345993

>>9345974
I like French. It's a nice language, except when they pronounce their Rs.

Also, I really hate
>tu me manques

>> No.9345994

Sounds gay. Which is strange because other romance languages sound awesome, but frogs had to be unique little shitheads even there

>> No.9346008

>>9345974
Post more augdawg

>> No.9346017

>>9345974
>What peeves or irks you?

The constant praise of Allah.

>> No.9346026

Its a great language but for some reason its pronounciation is absolutely off its tits.

>> No.9346033

>>9345974
The word "semblable" (I just don't like the sound of it) and the lack of flexibility that languages such as German have. There's usually only one good way of expressing something.

>> No.9346037

>>9345974
wow expanding the pic makes her look so real, almost as if she's here with me ;__; I just kissed the screen

>> No.9346043

>>9345993
> really hate
>tu me manques
This too. Other than that, it's a great sounding language (the R's included unless you go full rien de rien rolling R's which sounds like dogshit).

>> No.9346068

>>9345993
why do you hate that?

>> No.9346070

I can't figure out when to write which accent on what word so I quit learning it

>> No.9346091

>>9346068
I'm an Anglophone, so it seems like it's saying "you miss me" rather than "I miss you".

>> No.9346098

>>9346091
it means "you are missing from me"

>> No.9346122

>>9345974
German>Frogspeak

>> No.9346133

The french people must be exterminated

>> No.9346135

>>9345974
>What peeves or irks you?
everything

>> No.9346149

>>9346070
Not a good reason to quit, it becomes quite logical after a time.

Quick lesson:

words ending in an open syllable like "cheval" "che" and "val" being the syllables is pronounced like ə. Closed syllables are pronounced like ɛ as in "ferme"

If a word is pronounced like "e" it has an accent grave like réagir (two syllables) "ré" and "agir", without the accent it'd be pronounced ə.

tl;dr dumb reason not to learn French

>> No.9346157

>>9346149
I'm pretty dumb when it comes to language rules and can't be bothered anymore. Thank you.

>> No.9346163

>>9345974
Spoken doesn't sound nearly as good as it reads

>>9346033
>There's usually only one good way of expressing something.
Not as building-blocks flexible as german, but wrong. Only seems this way because they no longer know how to write and have deficient vocabulary. Obviously if you are limited to what is accessible to the general population by your skill with the language, syntax will look like a railroad.

>> No.9346165

>>9346149
I honestly don't have an inkling of understanding of what you wrote and I read it twice.

>> No.9346179

Passé simple.

French slang in general and """"""mec"""""".

>> No.9346200

>>9346165
Check out how the different vowels are pronounced, depending on their placement in a word it'll differ. Once you have that figured out, é and è will start making more sense since they'll go against these rules.

>> No.9346211

Grating to the ears if not spoken by a beautiful woman.

>> No.9346261

>>9346211
That's every redeemable language. The rest sound awful even if spoken by a well-educated beauty.

>> No.9346316

>>9346211
>>9346261
I disagree. French sounds beautiful as fuck which is partly why I started learning it (only knew English, Swedish and German before -- French tops em imo)

>> No.9346331

>>9346316
Come on, French is the most beautiful language I speak (+ English, German, Japanese and Italian), but it's not really a delight to hear an average working class male speak, especially when they use slang.

>> No.9346348

>>9346331
Pretty much this. Any language can sound nice if spoken by the right person. More often that not, though, it will sound like garbage when spoken by your average local.

>> No.9346349

>>9345974
Did you know the stupid whores are not allowed on this board? Probably you didn't... So, for the next time: post a picture of a landscape or a monument, or, even better, of a book. Thanks.

>> No.9346359

>>9345974
French is a pretty cool language, makes me feel smart whenever I get the chance to speak some of it, and since I do wish to become bilingual I think French is a natural choice to make since I'm Canadian. I've also got a lot of English ancestry and France is just across the channel from them so why not? If I had to pick something that peeves/irks me, it's probably the masculine/feminine thing. I remember briefly hearing about it in school and thought that that would be a very annoying thing to deal with if I ever decided to try and become fluent.

>> No.9346451

>>9346098
Either way, the focus of the expression is on the missing rather than the person doing so.

>> No.9346567

>>9345974
What the fuck is the big deal with her she seriously looks unwell.

>> No.9346573

>>9345974
I just recently started learning french, so I don't know that much. But what I've encountered so far, that drives me mad is the thing with gender (that others already stated).
I'm a native German speaker and german also has those "mixed up" cases where the word gender doesn't fit the real thing described by the word. So I find it confusing how words with the "right" gender in German suddenly have the "wrong" one in French and the other way around. Also I'm slightly confused why there is no neuter...

>> No.9346581

I find the 'est-ce que whatever' construction weird and needlessly wordy.

Also, pronunciation is a complete mystery. But the different tenses seem easier than Italian.

>> No.9346589

>>9346573
Oh and also having spaces before exclamation marks, questions marks etc.

>Qu'est-ce que vous aimeriez ?

>> No.9346594

>>9346567

She's French. They're all inbred malnourished degenerates

>> No.9346607

>>9346594
Are you sure about that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfXBNQMj2SE

>> No.9346611

>>9346594
that's not how you write British

>> No.9346618

>>9346567
Leftists cant take care of themselves.

>> No.9346625

>>9346607
Alizee is Mediterranean

>> No.9346637

>>9346625
Corsica is french.

>> No.9346761

>>9346637
Which isn't ethically french

>> No.9346779

>>9345974
Hobestly sounds like any other language I've studied, which is normal. Languages lose a special feeling once you understand them.

>> No.9346941

Why the fuck are there conjugations before every fucking word? It would be so simple if I didn't have to change the fucking ending of every single verb but oui oui non non vous besoin changez le everything. Fucking frogs

>> No.9346950

Are there any books that are bilingual? I mean english on one side of the page and the French on the opposite

>> No.9346956
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>>9345974
>What peeves or irks you?

The inability to pronounce anything that isn't a word/name of French origin. And why can't they say words starting with a 'W'

>> No.9347242

>tfw using duolingo to learn french

will this fuck me up? I already feel like I know more french now than I did during my 6 year formal education, but I'm worried this will inhibit my learning potential later on

>> No.9347250

>>9345974
Sentence structure is such fucking autism.

>> No.9347308

>>9345986
it's omelette au fromage you fucking pseud

>> No.9347337

>>9346157
honestly anon it's one of those things you shouldn't really think too hard about at the beginning because as you go you'll just intuitively pick it up. french is pretty consistent in its pronunciation rules

t. guy who's been learning french for ~8 months

>> No.9347372

The people that speak it

>> No.9347424

>>9347242
funny you post this, I just finished the french language tree yesterday. duolingo is a good tool, but don't use it as your only source. best part about it imo is the forum on every page with questions and answers by actual frogs

>> No.9347431

>>9347242
It shouldn't fuck you up, but it won't take you very far. You certainly won't be fluent once you finish with it. At best you'll probably be ready to move on to intermediate studies.

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9347439

>>9345974
That its fer Faggots and Prostertutes

>> No.9347449

>>9347439

kek

>> No.9347515
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9347515

>>9346607
she looks spaniard as fuck

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9347519

>>9347515
but ursula corbero is way cuter :3

>> No.9347684

French is fucking disgusting, it's such a ridiculous and repulsive language. Every time I hear a person speaking in French I just want to reach out and silence their faggot frog throat with a blade or blunt instrument. Fuck you if you speak french

>> No.9347902

>>9346618
I want to take care of her.

>> No.9348360

I can't say the fucking R to save my life. Also I get confused on when to pronounce a letter or not.

>> No.9348395

>>9346567
Shortage of Vitamin D

>> No.9348637

Who the hell is this girl and why is she such a big deal on here?