pronunciation of some French verbal conjugations

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Astraios wrote:I'm hating on you? You're the one telling me I can't speak French, based on no evidence whatsoever (other than the fact that I disagreed with you).
Not listening. *Whistling.*

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Are you two years old? :roll:

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Visinoid wrote:Not listening. *Whistling.*
Wow, mature

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If you ask, yes I am. Logically, a two years old can use the internet and speak in English. Obviously, of course, without any question to be made.

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A two years old can also be a troll, apparently!

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If you're two years old, you clearly don't know as much about any language as I do, since I am seventeen years older than you. Does this mean you give up? :P

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Astraios wrote:If you're two years old, you clearly don't know as much about any language as I do, since I am seventeen years older than you. Does this mean you give up? :P
You're then 19, and I'm older. (It doesn't me.an anything)

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Re: pronunciation of some French verbal conjugations

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Oh, it can do maths as well! :D

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I'm actually very bad at maths.

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Does anyone else find it ironic that almost all of Visinoid's posts have had glaringly obvious grammatical mistakes?

Are you a French "grammar Nazi" then, Visinoid?

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Visinoid wrote:I'm actually very bad at maths.
I find that very easy to believe.

Chibi wrote:Does anyone else find it ironic that almost all of Visinoid's posts have had glaringly obvious grammatical mistakes?

Are you a French "grammar Nazi" then, Visinoid?
No, he made French mistakes too. :)

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Re: pronunciation of some French verbal conjugations

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Vardelm wrote:French is too tough to be well spoken as a native do.
Erm, to be honest, that's true of any language, English, Spanish, you name it. (The phrase I underlined for instance is wrong, though I can't think of any simple way to correct it (i.e. I'd word it in a different way, "to be learnt to a level you can pass as a native", "too tough for most to learn to a native-like level", I'm not sure).)
I've never seen one be able to achieve this.
You sure you don't know any immigrant who came to Canada in his/her early years? 7 yo immigrants and the like usually end up learning the local language to pass as native speakers.

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Re: pronunciation of some French verbal conjugations

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Serafín wrote:
Vardelm wrote:French is too tough to be well spoken as a native do.
Erm, to be honest, that's true of any language, English, Spanish, you name it. (The phrase I underlined for instance is wrong, though I can't think of any simple way to correct it (i.e. I'd word it in a different way, "to be learnt to a level you can pass as a native", "too tough for most to learn to a native-like level", I'm not sure).)
I've never seen one be able to achieve this.
You sure you don't know any immigrant who came to Canada in his/her early years? 7 yo immigrants and the like usually end up learning the local language to pass as native speakers.
Spanish? It's easy as hell. (Ok my mother speaks it and passed it on to me but...)

Learn about grammar absorption in the brain. Of course, they end up speaking it like a native. Wow.

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Well, your L1 and other languages you've learnt do influence your learning other languages. As somebody whose L1 is Spanish myself, French is an absolute breeze to learn too. :P

@Legion/Hakaku/Yiuel/others: let's go back to some of the questions I indirectly made back in page 1:

http://zbb.spinnwebe.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=39299

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Proud Grammar Nazi wrote:If you ask, yes I am. Logically, a two years old two-year-old can use the internet and speak in English. Obviously, of course, without any question to be made.
Fixed.

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