Why study French?
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FrisianDude
Archduke
Dutch.
Brestos
Grandmaster Knight
Funny thing, in French we have two names for Netherlands : Hollande and Pays-Bas
And two names for Dutch : Hollandais and Néerlandais
And a good reason why you should learn French : We have such a rich vocabulary, so rich British had to stole some of our words for them
And two names for Dutch : Hollandais and Néerlandais
And a good reason why you should learn French : We have such a rich vocabulary, so rich British had to stole some of our words for them
FrisianDude
Archduke
English has words from almost every language. From Dutch as well.
Also, Pays-Bas and Néerlandais are correct.
Also, Pays-Bas and Néerlandais are correct.
FrisianDude
Archduke
Oui.
FrisianDude
Archduke
Holland is two provinces (North and South) in The Netherlands. But because Holland was relatively powerful when the Netherlands formed backwards folk keep calling it Holland, but that's actually pars pro toto.
Kinda like calling the United States of America 'Carolina' because it's got North and South.
Edit; damnbalon!
Kinda like calling the United States of America 'Carolina' because it's got North and South.
Edit; damnbalon!
AWdeV
Duke
Figures I'd get ninja'd here.
Ludial
Knight at Arms
it's the same thing. just that, so typically of the French language, it takes a gazillion words to say something that in other languages is said with two words.Brestos said:
the idea is that French is made ridiculously complicated on purpose. So the nobility could differentiate more easily from the plebs back in the days when the language was invented.
FrisianDude
Archduke
Christ, there have been *three* posts detailing why it's not the same thing, yet along skips Ludial "hurderp, it's the same thing." It's not.
But... The French have already butchered their own languageBrestos said:Amagic said:
Yes, if you learn French, learn it well, merci!
For example, when the real sentence goes "Je ne parle pas francais", instead they say "Je parle pas francais", or was it "Je ne parle francais". One of those. Point is theyre effectively eating their own language into oblivion. Heh, theres even a certain amount of French music the radio stations have to play, or they have to pay some sort of a fine 
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Brestos
Grandmaster Knight
"Je parle pas" instead of "je ne parle pas" is like "I don't speak" for "I do not speak"...what's the deal?
EDIT : Yeah french radios are forcet to respect a quota of songs singed in french (even french bands singing in english are out of this quota...) This comes from the 60-70's and the invasion of English songs. And most of the french songs at that time where english songs translated in french.
But many french artists try to change this 'cause it's silly...
EDIT : Yeah french radios are forcet to respect a quota of songs singed in french (even french bands singing in english are out of this quota...) This comes from the 60-70's and the invasion of English songs. And most of the french songs at that time where english songs translated in french.
But many french artists try to change this 'cause it's silly...
FrisianDude
Archduke
In our schools we were taught we HAD to do ne AND pas for it.
I even used French once to reply to some French well, kids, I suppose.
I even used French once to reply to some French well, kids, I suppose.
FrisianDude
Archduke
That was indeed what I used.
Brestos
Grandmaster Knight
Two examples of famous french songs which are english covers :
Joe Dassin "Salut les Amoureux"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXriBd13PM
Arlo Guthrie "City of New Orleans"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE
Claude François "Comme d'habitude"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMoY5rNBjwk
Frank Sinatra "My way"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hYDIFDIU
Joe Dassin "Salut les Amoureux"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXriBd13PM
Arlo Guthrie "City of New Orleans"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfxoM6trtZE
Claude François "Comme d'habitude"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMoY5rNBjwk
Frank Sinatra "My way"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E2hYDIFDIU
