Comments on: Je téléphonai à la clinique vétérinaire la semaine passé

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By: frenchninja

frenchninja — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:09:16 +0000

…oops! Sorry! heehee.
It turns out he’s an Aussie as well. Quelle chance!

By: ellen

ellen — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:04:22 +0000

wow! thanks for the link! it’s VERY relevant to us! and I missed the bus this morning becuase I forgot about the time when checking that out!

By: frenchninja

frenchninja — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:58:57 +0000

I just found this blog, I think it’s relevant to us :) http://ddotb.wordpress.com/

By: Yrag

Yrag — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:27:33 +0000

Comment est-ce que j’ecrit un blog en francais si mon francais est tres terrible? Je prefere a lire ton blog merveilleux!! Et, bien-sur, j’ai appris beaucoup de lui!!

By: ellen

ellen — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:16:13 +0000

I blog because I sometimes feel suffocated by the fact that no one really cares or understand about the love hate relationship I have with this language.

So you found me by tags? I am so lucky! :)

By: frenchninja

frenchninja — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:54:40 +0000

I guess where we commonly make those sorts of mistakes is because we try to phrase sentences in French as you’d do in English i.e ‘when does the shop close’ instead of ‘at what hour…’

Same as forming a question in French with ‘est-ce que’ is the most common form, and yet in English you sound like Shakespeare if you start a sentence with ‘Is it that you..?’ :)

Interesting how learning a language isn’t restricted to learning words, but learning how to speak, period.

I’m glad you blog! Doesn’t seem to be anyone else using similar tags on WordPress!

By: ellen

ellen — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:24:23 +0000

“À quelle heure ” is just so simple but I always forget the simple thing when I speak!! I have heard “shay pa” too! and it’s true that the key of speaking fluent french is to speak like a local! :) thanks for the tips!

By: frenchninja

frenchninja — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 21:56:50 +0000

Nice post!

Yeah I would say ‘À quelle heure ferme le clinique aujourd’hui?’ is a lot more graceful way of asking ‘when’.
Same as asking a friend what the time is there (i.e overseas) ‘Quelle heure chez toi?’

‘au’ is a tricky one like that! Also, if it’s plural (to the (several things)) it becomes ‘aux’.

The French certainly drop the ‘ne’ in everyday speech. I even heard my family saying ’shay pa’ phonetically instead of ‘je ne sais pas’. In other words, combining the ‘je’ and ’sais’.
Horrible French, but it makes you sound like a local! :)