Does anyone else here do French?? For the past couple weeks our teachers been saying there's a test tomorrow, then postpones- and usually I wait a while to study and the test was today. Anyhoo- I came second last(14/48) - last year I was first in french in the end of year examinations- and the person who was last today came second in the exams last year! It's all about tenses-doesn't help that it's not explained much.
Anyway- now I'm redoing the test and she said we're doing it tomorrow in French, now I've found out we don't have French tomorrow- I dunno now if she'll call us out of class!
I hate languages so much!

I have french. I get about 80 or higher mostly. Do you need help or are you just saying you hate french?:confused:

Originally posted by webuster
For the past couple weeks our teachers been saying there's a test tomorrow, then postpones- and usually I wait a while to study and the test was today.

I hate when I study for a test and then the teacher postpones it!

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Je ne parle pas francaise (and I'm pretty sure I misspelled that)

I still got asked for directions three times in Paris :rolleyes:

I took two years of french. I guess it could really be three because I failed French 1 the first time.

I took French for 3 years in high school, and to this day can't tell you anything I learned..

My oldest sister teaches French and English at a local high school. She lived in France for about a year or two and went to school there and learn the language some more. I never took French because my high school only taught Spanish.

Originally posted by Liza
Je ne parle pas francaise (and I'm pretty sure I misspelled that)

I still got asked for directions three times in Paris :rolleyes:

Actually, you spelled it very close to being correct. It's just: je n'ai parle pas le francais. With a little circonflexe under the "c".

By the way, anyone know a site or something to show how to get those little symbol things?

Nope, I take Spanish. Yay for me. I don't understand why the world doesn't speak one great language...it'd be a lot easier that way. And, of course, it'd be one less class to take. ;)

Bienvenue! :)

I listen to French everyday! Everybody speaks it here! (Vivre au Québec!) ;)

I'm in French 2 right now. The only reason I really take it is because my mom is fluent and teaches French at a middle school and she really wanted me to.

oui, je le parle

No, I don't need help or anything-I'm just saying I hate it, and I've been studying for ages now. I've taken 6 French tests in the past, alot of them important- and this is probably the hardest! Most tests I took in French were relatively easy-anyway, it's a test on tenses. I used to learn Irish, but now I don't I've forgotten everything to do with it- I wasn't even good at remembering stuff in Irish, the tests so hard I think they give points for just making an attempt- I still managed to get a 70 in it.

Both my French teachers are from France now (I have to do just 'French' and 'Conversational French')

I took French all four years in high school. I always got straight A's. I remember very little of it now though.

Yeah, I took a year of it in highschool, got straight A's, but that was five years ago ;) My German's fluent, my Danish is okay, my Russian's not that bad, my French is sad, and my Italian is just pathetic :wave:

They did all come back to me when I went traveling through Europe though - I actually didn't get lost in Paris (that bad) ;)

I wouldnt mind to do a french...but I think we are talking bout two different things

Originally posted by wizard12
Actually, you spelled it very close to being correct. It's just: je n'ai parle pas le francais. With a little circonflexe under the "c".

By the way, anyone know a site or something to show how to get those little symbol things?

I hate bumping up old chit chat topics, especially when I am being a little nitpicking bung, but it isn't "je n'ai parle pas." It sounds like you took french so you probably already know that "ai" comes from the verb to have, so "je n'ai parle pas le francais" would be saying "I don't have speak french." So it's really, "Je ne parle pas le francais"--you got the rest of the sentence perfect. I wish I could post the website for the site I know that teaches the circonflexe and everything else, but the site is in my favorites and I'm not using my computer.

Originally posted by Cashodeen
I hate bumping up old chit chat topics, especially when I am being a little nitpicking bung, but it isn't "je n'ai parle pas." It sounds like you took french so you probably already know that "ai" comes from the verb to have, so "je n'ai parle pas le francais" would be saying "I don't have speak french." So it's really, "Je ne parle pas le francais"--you got the rest of the sentence perfect. I wish I could post the website for the site I know that teaches the circonflexe and everything else, but the site is in my favorites and I'm not using my computer.

they understood me in Paris - that's all I was after ;)

bonjour.

im taking spanish :)

I took French ions ago in highschool but I really dont remember much of it