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French thread!

Just to let you guys know: I sucked at it so I gave up but now I'm gonna make another account over the weekend and try it again!

Yay! I could help you, if you'd like :) I'm not very far yet, but it gets easier as it goes. I think, at least.

Just get the genders down, and it flies by. Well, I mean, it's not supposed to be easy, but easier once you get genders down. And grammar.

I think I'll be good at verbs.

Swedish verbs are really hard! There's no pattern or anything, so it's really confusing, past, present, and future tense. You just never know.

Well, I already know a bunch of French verbs.

Yeah, the gender thing is the most complicated, I think.

What level are you on Laura? Like, food or colors or family or what.

Food, right now, but my computer was just fixed, so I'll be on it more regularly now. Do you know how hard it is to do that on a phone???

My phone crashes all the time and I only have a few apps so no:

KINDLE
HIGH SCHOOL STORY (XD why did my sister have to get that game...)
INSTAGRAM

and then a lot of songs and, like, 100 pictures.

Indie.

Haha, it was a rhetorical question, but okay! :)

☁Halina☁ wrote: "Indie."

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w0w st0p ur so r00d

" quoting Casey

I'm on food right now. Don't know where my phone is though. I might have to use the computer. :(

I just learned, "le enfant mange un baguette."(The child is eating a baguette.) french can be so easy. Some words are the same or very similar like tomato. Tomato is tomate.

bye I have to go!! see you tomorrow

Haha, onion is oignon. I was laughing so hard at that for like, 10 minutes XD

I'm learning about Christmas in French yayyyyyy

Ella your brother is the strangest guy I know. (Not specifically in a bad way but still.)

Yeah, Im on possess....some lessons are super easy and others make no sense

Yeah phrases took me awhile to pass but basics 1 was easy

Okay so I started up again. (Yay!) I'm on the word 'cat'. Finally the 10 years of ballet experience is beginning to help.

Haha, same! Anyone want to help me practice?

I suck at this. Especially the one where you have to listen and then write it down.

➳Halina➳ wrote: "I suck at this. Especially the one where you have to listen and then write it down."

I hate that part!

Well, there's tons of it.

The main reason I get stuff wrong is because I don't have it in the correct order, or I accidentally write it in English when I'm supposed to be translating it/writing down what I hear.

The hardest part of French for me (not Duolingo, French) is the plurals, not the gender like a lot. Un and une are easy enough to remember. But getting the order and knowing which one needs an s at the end of them?! Doesn't work out for me

I get the "I"'s mixed up and "Elle" and "Il a" sound the same to me. The gender's really hard for me, too. FRUIT DOESN'T HAVE A GENDER WHAT DO I WRITE.

But with stuff like "dress," that's easy because girls wear dresses but other stuff is hard.

Ella ♡му тнσυgнтѕ αяε ѕтαяѕ♡ wrote: "The hardest part of French for me (not Duolingo, French) is the plurals, not the gender like a lot. Un and une are easy enough to remember. But getting the order and knowing which one needs an s at..."

I know, right? Especially for eat/eating/am eating/is eating/etc. I'm always confused on which one to write for that, because there are like, five different versions.

Ella ♡му тнσυgнтѕ αяε ѕтαяѕ♡ wrote: "The hardest part of French for me (not Duolingo, French) is the plurals, not the gender like a lot. Un and une are easy enough to remember. But getting the order and knowing which one needs an s at..."

I get the une and un, but with a few things that don't necessarily have/relate to a gender, I get mixed up with. But mainly, I think I'm pretty good with those, too.

I got really annoyed with everything, so I stopped for like a week, but I started again and I am hoping to get better over the holidays

Oh, and I got the progress bar thing and I really like it.

I know!!!

Me too!

I just bought this thing on French grammar that talks about stuff like pronunciation, gender, plurals, and more.

That's really cool, and very helpful!

It is.

My new saying: When in doubt add an "s".

XD Very true, though.

I love learning French!!! I am on possesives!

J'acre la pomme

I screwed that up, didn't I?

What were you trying to say? I never learned acre XD

I like the apple...failed, right?

You were close though! J'aime la pomme

Oh, I knew that! (Then looks it up to make it true)

XD

How far are you Ella?