Lets see who knows there fench without TRANSLATOR!

by Genix Warrior 2011-01-25, 15:54

I will post a series of french sayings and I will see who can answere them ok.

Soyez bienvenus au forum de randonnée d'éclat, j'espère que vous appréciez votre séjour

Je déteste noobs et flamers vous font ?

un des jeux de randonnée d'éclat a besoin du travail, qu'un ?

merci pour votre temps!

there they are, have a go Very Happy

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 16:07

1.) Something about welcome to a random forum, I hope you appreciate your day. Though if that's the case, your conjugations are incorrect

2.) I hate noobs and flamers, don't you?

3.)A young random something needs to work or something like that

3.) Thank you for your weather. (You should've use l'heure, not temps)

by Genix Warrior 2011-01-25, 16:14

Very nice, and my stuff is correct, but you did very well on the first one, I said welcome to the forum pretty much, and the other one is about flash trek but still nice. Very Happy

The noobs and flamers is very correct.

the weather one was way off Very Happy

nice try though.

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 16:14

Also, you used the plural form of you too many times and it also refers to somebody of higher authority. Where this is casual, you should have used the conjugations of tu

by Genix Warrior 2011-01-25, 16:16

I used a translator to do this, so how could it be wrong??

I must say you are very good at french, where did you learn it?

vous êtes stupéfiants comment les avez-vous reçus ?

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 16:21

Translators are always wrong. Here's a fun way to test. Have a short story/paragraph written. Translate it to a language, translate it back, translate it to that language again, translate it back. Do this multiple times, then read the story/paragraph again.

I learned french in school, though it's been some years since I have taken it, I still remember a thing or two. On top of that, my sister is bilingual and therefore fluent in french, so I have her help on some things (though she wasn't home when I translated that)

by Genix Warrior 2011-01-25, 16:24

Well I do suppose translators are wrong lol, and nice, you took french, I am still in the stages of learning the weather.

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 16:25

The only weather you need to know here is il neige and il est froid ou tres frigide

(sorry that there's no accents, my keyboard doesn't like those)

by Genix Warrior 2011-01-25, 16:27

So thats it's snowy and that it's cold?

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 16:31

Pretty much Smile

by Genix Warrior 2011-01-25, 16:42

lol in the uk that is true, nothing but rain as well.

by leewatson1 2011-01-25, 17:32

I haven't used my basic french for a couple of years but i managed to translate most of the paragraph myself

by **Thingy** 2011-01-25, 17:41

Is french hard to learn? I''m thinking about learning french, then italian so i can speak all the major languages of the EU. Not because of patriotism or something like that, i just want to be able to speak to anyone when i go there and be more competitive on the job market. I mean, who'll pass up a KTH graduate who can speak fluent German, French, Italian, Arabic, Swedish and English (I speak Arabic, Swedish, English and German at the moment. My German is pretty good, but not fluent. Yet.)? Plus i want to be able to work in any of the major union members. Want to do some CAD programming/ automobile electronic engineering in Germany? Why not? Devise a perfect baguette/croissant baking machine in France to feed their unending lust for baguettes and croissants? Can do. As long as they throw massive piles of Euros at me every month, that is. I mean, 100k EU currency a year isn't anywhere near bad. It's almost a million swedish. A YEAR. Seriously, king Midas would be jealous.

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 17:54

No, french isn't all that hard, besides you have english and spanish and you'll notice a lot of similarities between french and spanish and then learning Italian should be a cinch cause all the romantic languages are very similar in concept to each other

by **Thingy** 2011-01-25, 17:56

Yeah, they're all based on latin. You just have to learn one, and learning the rest is easy.

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 18:04

Pretty much. Think I might take Latin in university in the fall, or at least give it a try

by **Thingy** 2011-01-25, 18:06

Well, if you speak french, it'll be a little easier. Pretty hard language though, and not very useful either these days.

by Shemuel 2011-01-25, 18:11

I found Latin not bad at all. It isn't like a Germanic language in some ways, eg. the order of words in a sentence being interchangeable, but yes, the French will be a big boost.

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota manax materiam possit materiari?

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 18:14

Thingy wrote:Well, if you speak french, it'll be a little easier. Pretty hard language though, and not very useful either these days.

Well, one of the plus sides of learning it is I believe I don't have to speak it in class like I would with french. In french you can't talk english which sucks, I mean that's how it is in secondary, but I haven't done a language class in 2 and a half years, 3 years by the time I'm in university

by **Thingy** 2011-01-25, 18:20

I'd recommend learning a modern language. Like spanish, italian or any of the major world languages.

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 18:26

All that's offered is french, latin and german. I don't want to do french, could care less about German, so Latin it is Smile

Besides, it's the root of a good chunk of the languages anyways, so might as well learn the base language Smile

by **JPB18** 2011-01-25, 18:41

Darkwing wrote:Translators are always wrong. Here's a fun way to test. Have a short story/paragraph written. Translate it to a language, translate it back, translate it to that language again, translate it back. Do this multiple times, then read the story/paragraph again.

I learned french in school, though it's been some years since I have taken it, I still remember a thing or two. On top of that, my sister is bilingual and therefore fluent in french, so I have her help on some things (though she wasn't home when I translated that)

there's also one involving "When Will Puberty Hit Justin Bieber?", then translate it to Vietnamese (I think) and then back to english... the answer is quite amusing Very Happy

@Shem... You do know that what you said wouldn't make sence to a real citizen of the Roman Empire, right?

by Deoran Drages 2011-01-25, 18:44

heh, i i know english, a tiny bit of arabic and thats pretty much it and my arabic is whatever ive picked up from my arabic studies teachers over the years.... my french, spanish, german and italian is limited to whatever you hear on tv, though i picked up quite a few italian swear words from assassins creed 2

anyway, in canada isnt french one of the official languages?

by **JPB18** 2011-01-25, 18:45

Here' s a video showing it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX5xxjt4T7w&feature=related

xD

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-25, 19:01

Deoran Drages wrote:heh, i i know english, a tiny bit of arabic and thats pretty much it and my arabic is whatever ive picked up from my arabic studies teachers over the years.... my french, spanish, german and italian is limited to whatever you hear on tv, though i picked up quite a few italian swear words from assassins creed 2

anyway, in canada isnt french one of the official languages?

It is, but all that means is government officials are required to speak both languages. Most of the population of Canada can only generally speak English or French, the group the can speak both is still quite small, like 30% tops (I think Razz

)

by leewatson1 2011-01-25, 19:33

I'm going to try and learn french maybe find some classes somewhere, isn't alot of french and english words similar or you can work them out with a bit of common sense?

by Philly Homer 2011-01-25, 20:01

Darkwing wrote:All that's offered is french, latin and german. I don't want to do french, could care less about German, so Latin it is Besides, it's the root of a good chunk of the languages anyways, so might as well learn the base language

Deutschland Deutschland uber alles...

by **Thingy** 2011-01-25, 20:16

Ja, und bratwurst.

by Philly Homer 2011-01-25, 20:34

Currywurst?

by rrps700 2011-01-25, 20:35

Je parle un petite peu de francais.

by rrps700 2011-01-25, 20:36

Philly Homer wrote:Currywurst?

yum my fav food ever.

by **Thingy** 2011-01-25, 20:43

Philly Homer wrote:Currywurst?

NEIN NEIN NEIN NEEEEEIN! GROBEN HARIGEN KARTOFFELN! ZU FORT!

by Philly Homer 2011-01-25, 21:00

Besser

Lets see who knows there fench without TRANSLATOR! DSC01537

Hee hee

by **A-BIack_Man** 2011-01-26, 01:33

Spanish is where it's at. Here at least, cuz i'm soon to be the minority.

German would be pretty sweet to learn though.

by Philly Homer 2011-01-26, 01:34

German's great. French leaves out basically the last 7 syllables of every word. German says everything... and more.

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-26, 01:42

I really could care less about German. I like the smoother sounding languages like the Romantic Languages

by Philly Homer 2011-01-26, 01:52

But if you learn German incorrectly, everything you say will have a sexual meaning! So learn German, but learn it incorrectly at the very least.

by Genix Warrior 2011-01-26, 04:12

ha ha, he has got a point.

Hier ist die Verbindung zur Seite, die ich verwende, Es kann es zuweilen falsch verstehen aber.

Aidera-t-il quelqu'un ou c'est juste merdique ?

http://webtranslation.paralink.com/English-French-Translation/

by **Thingy** 2011-01-26, 10:42

German is awesome, Germany is awesome. That's all. Or, well, if you ignore the whole racism/anti semitism thing they've got going on down there...

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-26, 10:50

Philly Homer wrote:But if you learn German incorrectly, everything you say will have a sexual meaning! So learn German, but learn it incorrectly at the very least.

And that is a benefit....how?

by **Thingy** 2011-01-26, 10:54

You will be declared officially awesome by the council of awesomeness.

by **Darkwing** 2011-01-26, 10:55

One, I've already been declared that multiple times in the last few years, two, why would I care? Three, it's my decision so leave it alone

by **Thingy** 2011-01-26, 11:05

Scheiser... *Picks up his time phone* mein Fuhrer... er will nicht Deutsch lernen. nein... ja... nein... nein, Ich kann seine Meinung nicht ändern. Wir müssen ihn töten.

by Shemuel 2011-01-26, 11:29

Apologies, had to be done at some point.

Philly wrote:Deutschland Deutschland uber alles...

I've had a telling off from German people for saying that before. Apparently "Germany over all"=Nazism.

Anyway, my favourite German phrase is "ein wal auf dem dach"

by Philly Homer 2011-01-26, 12:30

Yeah, they reduced their badass anthem to just the last stanza. It's depressing.

Mine is "ich bin schwer." Oh, and...

Ich bin ein Berliner.

by **Thingy** 2011-01-26, 12:36

Yup... That sucks. I mean, i'm all for keeping the nazis as far away from politics as humanly possible, but come on... How can ''Germany above all'' be nazi?

by Philly Homer 2011-01-26, 13:02

It's like their laws with swastikas and video games. I dunno, it's like white guilt except German guilt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_guilt

I suppose it's their penance or whatever. Deprecating themselves

by Jtull 2011-01-26, 20:25

I think hitler was a genius when it came to politics, and running a country

by **Thingy** 2011-01-26, 20:42

No he wasn't, he was just an incredibly lucky idiot with a serious hate boner for jews (poor, unemployed, badly educated people+hate=political victory.). And he sucked at running a country, his entire economy revolved around continued war. It worked out in the very short run, but even if he had won the war and taken over half the world, his little reich would have collapsed, taking half of europe with it into the abyss. And that, he didn't. He lost the war because he didn't have the brains to understand that invading soviet, a massive, incredibly cold wasteland with an army the size of the german population.

I mean, imagine if this assclown tried to win the elections in a Germany that hadn't been utterly decimated by WW1? He'd be laughed, then beaten out of the country.

by **A-BIack_Man** 2011-01-26, 20:57

Yeah he sucked at running a country, but he could easily manipulate people.
He had to have a lot of connections and known a lot of people too.

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