#langue étrangère

[starryrock]

Question pour des Français: dites-vous « soixante-dix » et « quatre-vingt-dix-neuf »? Est-ce que vous ne fatiguez pas? Pourquoi est-ce que 70 n’a pas de terme? C’est très difficile.

Désolée, je ne parle pas bien français. 😓

(My question in English, just in case my French is worse than I thought. ⬇️)

Question for French people: do you guys regularly say “sixty-ten” and “four-twenty-ten-nine” instead of having individual words for those numbers? Don’t you all get tired of saying all that? Why doesn’t 70 have its own word?? It’s so difficult.

[2salles2ambiances]

It's the beginning of a new month, you know what that means! (It means I forgot to post this on the last of the month)

[passion-of-arts]

TANDEM - IN WELCHER SPRECHE TRÄUMST DU | HD Trailer (German)

"Tandem – In welcher Sprache träumst du?" aus dem Jahr 2024 ist ein romantisches Drama, inszeniert von Claire Burger.

Der Film erzählt die Geschichte der 17-jährigen Fanny (Lilith Grasmug), die aus Straßburg nach Leipzig reist, um die gleichaltrige Lena (Josefa Heinsius) zu besuchen. Lena träumt davon, politische Aktivistin zu werden, während Fanny, um Lenas Aufmerksamkeit zu gewinnen, ein aufregenderes Leben erfindet, als sie tatsächlich führt. Trotz Sprachbarrieren und politischer Spannungen entsteht zwischen den beiden eine zarte Freundschaft.

[numenbib38]

Appli Hour - Sélection de l'été 2024

Profitez de l'été pour perfectionner vos langues étrangères.

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[coursdefrancais]

Apprendre le français pour le DELF A1

Apprendre le français en vue du DELF A1 représente bien plus qu'une simple quête linguistique ; c'est l'ouverture d'une porte vers la maîtrise de la langue de Molière à un niveau élémentaire. Le DELF A1, certificat reconnu mondialement, atteste des compétences linguistiques de base en français et constitue un premier pas vers une communication efficace dans la vie quotidienne.

Le processus d'apprentissage pour le DELF A1 englobe une variété de compétences essentielles telles que la compréhension orale et écrite, l'expression orale et écrite. Les cours sont spécifiquement conçus pour fournir aux apprenants les outils nécessaires pour naviguer avec assurance dans des situations courantes, que ce soit pour demander des directions, faire des achats, ou simplement échanger des informations basiques.

Chaque leçon sert de brique fondamentale, contribuant à la construction d'une base solide en français. Les thèmes abordés sont pertinents et pratiques, encourageant les apprenants à appliquer immédiatement leurs connaissances. La réussite au DELF A1 ouvre la voie à des niveaux supérieurs, mais surtout, elle symbolise la concrétisation d'un voyage linguistique qui élargit les horizons et enrichit la vie quotidienne par le pouvoir de la langue française. En apprenant le français pour le DELF A1, on investit dans la compétence linguistique et l'ouverture à de nouvelles perspectives culturelles.

[emma-hahn]

Completely random but if you’ve ever wondered what most French people sound like speaking other languages well it sounds a bit like this.

And this is Louis de Funès, France comic genius.

[moinsbienquekaworu]

thank you so much!! okay so. past tense stuff. I'm confused why sometimes it's être+verb or avoir+verb, but other times you can use imperfect? it kind of seems to me like être/avoir+verb are for more recent things, but I'm not entirely sure. if that is the case, is there a specific time limit or is it just up to the speaker? thanks again!!

Conjugation my beloathed. (not against you, I just never liked learning conjugation)

Être/avoir + verb is called passé composé, it's a compound tense made with the auxiliary verb in the present simple + the past participle of the verb. It's used for an action that happened in the past and that is over now, but it doesn't necessarily denotes that we know when the action happened. It's tense that's used for narration informally (with the present tense), so like, talking to people.

Imparfait is a simple tense used for - the French wikipedia page phrases it as "the imparfait presents the action while it is happening, as it is being done or repeated in a past moment all the people in the exchange are aware of, even if implicitly". So it's in the past, but it implies we know which moment of the past, as opposed to passé composé where that's not necessary. The example they use is if you're talking about someone learning french, "il a appris le français" only says it happened in the past at some point, but know he knows how to speak French, but if you say "il apprenait le français", that only makes sense if you know when he was learning french.

The other difference between the two is that - this is a weird way to explain it, but using the imparfait gives this vibe of your POV being in the past? The wikipedia pages says that it's often used to contrast the past and the present, to discuss a past situation/action that is clearly over, with examples like "quand j'étudiais en France, je mangeais beaucoup de pain". And looking at that sentence, in English that'd be like, "when I was studying in France, I ate a lot of bread", your POV for that sentence is "when you were studying in France" (except french and English do tense agreement differently so in French we keep using the imparfait but in English once you've established which time you're talking about you switch to another tense). In that vibe scenario, passé composé has its POV in the present? I don't know if that makes sense. The way the wikipedia page puts it is that "presents the action as it is happening" part.

They also say that the imparfait is used for putting a past event in the background when combined with the passé composé or passé simple, with the time of the event in the imparfait being the reference for the time of the event in the passé composé or passé simple (so the event in the imparfait kind of sets the scene - "je mangeais quand j'ai entendu un cri"). When you're writing a story, there's the narration tense, for actions, and the scenery tense, for descriptions - the passé composé is a narration tense both out loud and in writing, the imparfait is a scenery tense, and obviously both of them are used when you're writing in the past.

So the passé composé isn't necessarily for things that happened more recently, it's more about that "knowing when the event happened" thing + in real life discussions the thing where imparfait kind of sets the scene. The writing thing with narration/scenery tenses (which - maybe that's a thing in English also? I'm assuming? never took an English creative writing class) is also applicable out loud, especially the passé composé + imparfait combo (as opposed to passé simple + imparfait, which is very literary, since we don't use the passé simple out loud). There isn't a time limit, but like in English, there's different tenses for when you're talking about events that happened in the past of the past - like, if you're talking about something happening yesterday, but in that story there's something that happened the week before (plus-que-parfait informally, for sentences like "I had eaten a full meal")

All of that is only for the indicative and not the subjunctive, and obviously if you want to check out a verb's conjugation your best friend is the Bescherelle conjugaison website, which is nicer to use and easier to access than a physical Bescherelle book. Hopefully that helped a little?? Looking at wikipedia pages and example sentences I was realising I am so so bad at explaining what's going on in this hell language. Conjugation is one of the hardest bits of french though! It doesn't get much worse than this shit. Maybe agreements?

Here's the Wikipedia graph about which tense to use and which one comes before which on a timeline, if that helps

[cestmoiquand]

Hier , j'avais la soirée de boulot. Ma collègue m'a présenté à un nouveau collègue comme "c'est la collègue trop drôle que tu dois absolument rencontrer"

[culturefrancaise]

J'ai retrouvé l'histoire que j'écoutais en cassette audio quand j'étais petite !

[librotheque]

https://apprendre.tv5monde.com/fr/tcf

Un corpus pédagogique proposé par TV5 monde et destiné à préparer le test de connaissance du français (TCF) exigé pour de nombreuses démarches administratives (inscription à l’université, démarche d’accès à la nationalité française…)

Mêle vidéos, exercices et suivi personnalisé en s’abonnant aux podcasts du site.

Le site apprendre.tv5monde.com propose également plus de 3000 exercices pour apprendre le français à partir de vidéos issues de l’antenne de TV5MONDE ou de l’univers tv5monde.com. Ces exercices sont catégorisés en 4 niveaux de langue, A1 débutant, A2 élémentaire, B1 intermédiaire, B2 avancé.

Bibliothèque des Côtes d'Armor

[hcdahlem]

Des montagnes de questions

Dans cet essai éclairant et militant, Stéphanie Lux raconte comment elle est devenue traductrice littéraire et combien ses vingt années d'expérience lui ont appris sur cet exercice qui n'est toujours pas reconnu à sa juste valeur, celui d'une création.

  En deux mots Stéphanie Lux est traductrice littéraire. En retraçant son parcours et son expérience de plus de 20 ans, elle nous donne à réfléchir sur le sens de ce métier aujourd’hui menacé et pourtant indispensable dans le passage d’une langue à l’autre, notamment à l’heure de l’IA et de l’écriture inclusive. Ma note ★★★ (bien aimé) Ma chronique La traductrice n’est pas une machine Dans cet…

[derekcanada]

Activité pédagogique: Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de différent ?

Voici une activité simple pour un cours de FLE pour faire pratiquer ce vocabulaire : Les objets de la classe Les descriptions Les prépositions On choisit une personne qui sort de la salle une minute ou deux. Pendant sa sortie, les autres dans la classe décident sur une chose à changer ; par exemple, quelque chose par rapport à une personne, des meubles, des affiches ou d’autres objets dans la…

[aaltjelng]

Je dois vraiment apprendre (à?? de??) parler plus lentement mdr

[nemosisworld]

Je dis que je suis amoureux d’elle. Qu’est-ce que cela signifie ? Cela signifie que je revois mon avenir et mon passé à la lumière de ce sentiment. C’est comme si j’écrivais dans une langue étrangère que je serais soudain capable de lire.

Jeanette Winterson, La Passion.

Ph. Dan Martensen : Andreea Diaconu.

[debbyswann]

Academic rivals

(short imagine/scenario between a Ravenclaw student and Regulus Black)

(rivalry to more???)

(word count: 1070)

•☽────✧˖°˖☆˖°˖✧────☾•

I sit down at my usual desk, students chatting all around me. I look around, observing my classmates as I wait for the lesson to start. A fellow Ravenclaw student sits next to me, and I gently greet them. We’re exchanging a few words, when I hear a group of other students approaching and I recognise his voice. As I slightly turn to the side, I glance at him while he talks to his friends. Perfect curls, charming voice, spotless uniform…Regulus Black. My eyes linger some more, taking in his appearance and demeanour. While I pretend to look somewhere else, I try to listen in and understand what he’s talking about. I can’t hear his words properly, but I’m sure he’s adding a few French words here in there. I almost roll my eyes; does he really need to do that? Now he’s even saying full sentences in French, leaving his friends half confused, half charmed. The girls are probably fawning over him at this point. I get he knows French; I get it. But there’s no need to use it so randomly. It’s not like he doesn’t know how to speak proper English, so he’s doing it on purpose. Yeah, of course he is. He wants to brag about it, the little show-off. God, I can’t stand him when he’s like this. The way he talks, the perfect nasal sounds, the air of superiority…he’s infuriating. I try to ignore the feeling in my stomach as I hear his soothing voice. I’m sure it’s just because he’s annoying, nothing more. Does he really think he’s the only one who knows a foreign language? I feel very tempted to contradict him. How would he react? Maybe he’d do him some good to be humbled for once...oh, and how tempting to see that arrogant smirk fade. I’m slightly nervous to do something like this, but it’s too late now, the words are begging to come out. I turn to my desk mate in order to avoid looking at him and I mutter:

“C’est un peu prétentieux de parler en français seulement pour démontrer que tu connais une langue étrangère.”

I don’t care if I also sound very arrogant right now, I want him to know that he’s not one step ahead of me. Not this time at least. My desk mate looks very confused, not understanding a single word and why I’m suddenly speaking in another language.

I notice Regulus stopped talking to his friends…he’s definitely heard. My voice was not very loud, but loud enough for him to hear, as he is not far away. I knew he would hear me, he’s always very receptive. The silence is almost deafening, and I know he’s looking at me. I can feel his emerald eyes boring into my skin. But I won’t give him the satisfaction of looking his way…or maybe I don’t want to admit that I wouldn’t be able to keep his gaze. I feign nonchalance, as if I haven’t spoken a single word, and I fix my books and pens on the desk. He’s still silent and with the corner of my eyes I try to steal a glance at him…is he surprised? Is he smirking? I’ll never know for sure because I keep looking straight ahead. Before he can properly react to my challenge, the professor comes in and he soon starts the lesson. I silently let out a breath I didn’t know I was holding.

Later, as class comes to an end, students start leaving the classroom, walking to their next class. I want to be fast and disappear before he can confront me. At the same time, though, I hope he says something about what happened. I quickly pack my things and sneak out of the classroom. But as I’m taking the first steps to walk away, I hear a presence behind me. I know it’s him before he even opens his mouth; I recognise his perfume. “T’appris seulement cette phrase ou tu peux vraiment parler en français?”. I freeze on the spot, my shoulders tensing. I slowly turn to his voice, and I see him literally towering over me, his eyebrows slightly raised. I push away my nervousness and slightly tilt my head up as if to challenge him: “Tu penses être la seule personne qui parle français?”

“Bah, oui”

“Bah, non,” I retort.

He smirks at my reply and says: “Seriously though…How do you even know French?”. I know he’s implying he’s surprised that a poor girl like me knows French, so I narrow my eyes and reply: “How do you know French?”. He snorts and then says: “Ah, you know…it’s a family thing. The noble houses always have a certain education, but you wouldn’t know. My mum taught me some, along with private tutors. Oh, and I spent plenty of summers in France…it just comes natural to me. You can say I’m bilingual”. Everything he says exudes arrogance, but I know he’s just telling the truth. “How about you then?” he asks me, now sounding honestly curious. “Oh, you know…same as you.” I don’t know how I found the courage to joke, but I did. And to my surprise, his lips curl up and he snorts lightly, in an amused way. He then looks at me, expecting the real answer.

“Well… there was this French girl in my orphanage, and she taught me a couple of things. Growing up, I wanted to study foreign languages. Then I got my Hogwarts letter, and everything changed. But I still love foreign languages and study them when I have some free time. English aside, I know French, Italian and Spanish…” I see one of his eyebrows going up; he’s genuinely surprised…or impressed even; I like that. So, I add: “Four is not bad, but I’d like to at least learn one other foreign language. Five would be better."

He smirks mischievously and replies: “C’est un peu prétentieux, non ?”

He’s using my own words against me. I’m speechless at first, then I let out a small snort, shaking my head and poking the inside of my cheek with my tongue. For a few moments, we look at each other with a hint of a smile we’re both trying to suppress. He then straightens himself and says: “See you around, Farrow.” And he leaves, walking to the other direction and leaving me staring blankly at the empty corridor.