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RED RED RED RED RED RED Je vais pouvoir parler français un jour. Je jure ! I'm going to be able to speak French one day. I promise! :-D. Tu arrivas un jour. Ça prend du temps. :) You'll get it someday. It takes time. :) Travis et Vijay, ce que je veux dire c'est difficile à exprimer. À mon avis, en...

Oui, les charbon mineurs de fond doivent être satisfaits par le gouvernement*, s'ils ne sont pas, ils font la grève. Je ne sais pas combien s'il c' est vrai**, mais j'entends dire que d es gens qui se plaignent du fait que la Tchéquie peut puisse contrôler les mineurs et avoir une l' industrie de c...

Tusk is just a Polish politician. Just like Kaczynski. ... Polish coal industry is unsustainable. It's going to fail sooner or later. EU has nothing to do with it. Tusk est plus qu'un simple politicien. Il est président du Conseil européen et il maintient une énorme influence au sein des institutio...

For me a powerplant is not a factory . After all, a factory makes things. Was me betreft, het was meer "maken kracht van materialen." Dus is er nog een stukje productie in deze context. Een soort van fabriek die kracht maakt. For me it was more "make power from materials." So there is still a produ...

Plus de centralisation peut aussi signi g fier plus de résistance, ou que plus de pays quitteraient l'UE. Si l'UE était encore seulement une union douanière, la Grande-Bretagne en se rait peut-être resté e membre. Danke, Hwhatting. Jetzt weiss ich nicht, als mann "factory" für Kraftwerksanlage benu...

Eh bien, quand le délégué de la Pologne a été le seul qui a voté contre la réélection de Donald Tusk pour la function du président du Conseil européen, mais la majorité des p olonais l' ont * opposé e ** je ne suis pas positif sur l'avenir de l'Union Européenne. Selon moi, nous allons la détruire. ...

You'd think Viktor being an American he'd be familiar with CP time. *ba dum tss* I had to Google that. But I don't think there's that much a difference across races in the US. There may be a stereotype that POCs are slower in general (as Latinos, too), but everyone almost always respects "American ...

In Denmark I saw bartenders/waiters who didn't speak Danish and those weren't places that catered to some ethnic community or whatever, I was surprised because I can't think of many other countries where they'd hire on such positions people who don't speak the local lingo but I guess the Danish are...

Je pensais ces derniers jours de quoi exactement on peut faire en Europe pour arrêter le terrorisme. Je ne suis pas politique, mais j'ai déjà développé un petit programme et vous pouvez me dire si vous êtes d'accord ou si c'est de la merde. Je crois qu'il faut faire deux choses, d'abord, il faut qu...

You all need to calm down. I was a bit mad when I wrote that (this is the Venting thread after all). And if anything it's xenophobic not racist. But these were individuals who did live in the US and who have businesses here. They made us wait hours on Monday when they weren't even in the same city a...

Sumelic, I just heard Emmanuel Macron say /set(.)da.vwaR/ c'est d'avoir, with a considerable pause between c'est and d'avoir, so it is likely a performance error because the second time he says it he does not include the liaison. What's fascinating is that he still did it that first time though. Thi...

I have heard of this; apparently it's reasonably common in the speech of some French politicians. I don't believe it is ever used before consonants, so there is no assumption of a following vowel-initial word: the liaison consonant is still conditioned by the actual presence of a following word tha...

Listening to Emmanuel Macron speak in French, I noticed that instead of carrying the liaison of the final /t/ in "c'est" over to the onset of the first syllable of the next word as in /se tyn/ 'c'est une' he maintains the /t/ on the coda of /se/ creating /set/. His prosody shows a clear pause here /...

Travis, I didn't mean to question your right to self-identify how you like. I just found the term negative and self-deprecating and didn't think it very positive to call oneself. Of course you have every right to call yourself as you like. Myself, I don't know if I'll ever deal with Africans again. ...

Aly, I hope you'll be back this week and better. Travis, don't call yourself a crazy person. I don't think you're a crazy person and I've been reading your posts here for quite some time. For my part, I am beyond glad I have decided to leave academia. I just got back comments and a grade on a draft ...

Récemment, j'ai changé de chemin futur. Si j'avais suivi mon chemin original, j'aurais suivi un doctorat, mais un coup de chance m'a libéré du monde académique lorsqu'un poste comme enseignant de français m'a été offert par une école privée à Memphis. J'ai accepté. J'ai parlé avec personne après pe...

but right now I am just completely turned off by all of it and it makes me uncomfortable. My thoughts would usually keep me company but now I feel alone, naked, bored, bitchy. I want to be interested in something right now. Does anyone else ever get this feeling? I'm stressed to the max with life s...

I was going to explain this, but realized it had already been explained better than I could, so just read up, please. The fact that English lacks a morphological future is not a good argument for English lacking a future tense, even though much better arguments can be made for why English lacks a f...

Perfects very easily become simple pasts (as in French), which only adds to the confusion. You didn't mean this exclusively, did you? Because the passé composé is both perfect and simple past. And I've never totally clear on the extent to which the passé composé really is a simple past. It might ac...

mèþru wrote:TAM combinations are often referred to as tenses, even in linguistics documents.

Yea we teach subjunctive as a tense in French but I suppose it's technically a mood.

Also French passé composé could be argued to be an aspect, but I don't know anyone who'd do that.

Est-ce qu'on ap p elle les toilettes la salle de bains en Australie ou c'est une chose que font seulement les Américains? Ich hatte gerade ein ganztägiges Bewerbungsgespräch in einer Privatschule in Memphis, Tennessee. Die Schule war sehr schön, sehr angeberisch, mit sehr motivierte Studenten. Wir ...

Pole, the wrote:Does anyone here merge “summing” and “something”?

Not IMD. We typically reduce "something" to [sV~?'.m?n] (Oh God I have no idea how to actually show that). My mouth is closed for the entire last syllable in a mhm fashion.

My theory is that French often adds a final /2/ to the end of intonatonal phrases so the stress has somewhere to fall. When speaking French one doesn't always properly plan intonational phrases so if the phrase can't permit final stress on the last syllable another syllable is added. This can be don...

I helped a friend paint walls yesterday and I was in a room with two girls who I didn't know. We spoke only in German. After a couple of hours, one of them complained that her English isn't very good even though she's an English teacher. I mentioned, then, that that's my native language. Until then...

I think levelling is the right word. That sounds right, actually, thanks. I use this thread too much but damn is it convenient for these little questions. Do any Brits here use "palaver" to mean a fuss, a kerfuffle, essentially? The dictionary definition is more along the lines of idle chatter but ...