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Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 7:26 pm
by Mid A 15
Mrs C. wrote:Oh dear!
Come on then Janet, put us out of our misery!

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:05 pm
by englishangel
Ve comprenez pas francais, n'est-ce pas?

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:12 pm
by Mrs C.
Mid A 15 wrote:
Mrs C. wrote:Oh dear!
Come on then Janet, put us out of our misery!
Why? its quite amusing watching everyone try to recall their schoolday French!! :D

and it`s all completely :offtopic: !!

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:14 pm
by sejintenej
jtaylor wrote:Vous ne comprendez pas le Francais?
Heck, even I learned that at school

:wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:17 pm
by Mrs C.
you learnt "comprendez"??

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:22 pm
by sejintenej
Le Pastis:
Euterpe13 wrote:T'inquiète pas , je suis bientôt près de toi, et j'ammenerai plusieurs bouteilles avec moi....
Ah, il-y-a un bon dieu (ou est-ce-que il-y-a une bonne dieu?)
Euterpe13 wrote:J'ai un excellent ( petit) stock de Bourgogne et Bordeaux que j'amène également avec moi
Merveilleuse, mais quelques bouteilles du Malepere ou Macon Villages souffi pour moi.

:partyman: :partyman: :drinkers: :partyman: :partyman:

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 8:30 pm
by sejintenej
How good is the GCSE French exam? GCE O level was supposed to bring you to a standard where you could write and talk passable everyday French.

My schoolmaster friend tells me that nowadays you can get through knowing just about nothing more than that France is over the water from Dover. Certainly of my three kids not one could carry out a reasonable conversation on what they learned at school and during trips to the various countries. I have to conclude that those lessons and the trip costs were a total waste of time / money which could have been far better spent.

French was his teaching speciality and I witnesed his early days there! Yes, he knew more than me (so does the dustman) but not much more. It was just confidence.

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:43 pm
by jtaylor
Voulez-vous couche avec un poisson ce soir?

(Sure that was it - or was it the Godfather I'm thinking of...)

J

Posted: Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:01 pm
by englishangel
la tete d'un cheval?

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:31 am
by cj
la plume de ma tante?

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:01 am
by Euterpe13
good grief!

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:09 pm
by AndrewH
sejintenej wrote:How good is the GCSE French exam? GCE O level was supposed to bring you to a standard where you could write and talk passable everyday French.
I don't know about French, but about 12 years ago I did evening class GCSE Italian. The classes that I had been going to never seemed tomove forward, so I thoughtthat one with and exam might do better. I got an 'A', which seemed to rather shock my bi-lingual other half!

Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:25 pm
by J.R.
Mid A 15 wrote:
blondie95 wrote:je ne comprendez French! or write it for that matter-gosh it was a while since GCSE french
Shouldn't that be je ne comprende pas? I'm not 100% certain though!

Even longer since I did "O" level French!

Arthur Rider taught me in my GE year.
OH DEAR !

We're not going to start discussing French "O" Levels, are we ??

DOUBLE-ENTENDRE ALERT !!

Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 6:56 pm
by jtaylor
Memberlist now re-coded to have 300 records per page, and hence only three pages to search through if you're looking for someone.

J

Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:22 pm
by kerrensimmonds
Dear Julian
Thank you for bringing this thread back to topic!
Having done French at Higher Education level, and having become 'bilingue' (at the time, not now!), I was beginning to cringe.
As a complete novice on anything technical I would like to thank you for all you are doing to keep this Forum up and running and current etc. etc.
Keep up the good work!
I particularly like the 'taylormade' website!
Kerren