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Comrade Tassadar is offline Comrade Tassadar
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I want to learn the French language. I don't have any money at all.

Please help me.

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If you don't have any money at all, isn't getting some money a higher priority?

OK, a few ideas;

1) Try watching French subtitled movies. This will at least give you an idea how it sounds.

2) Get a French SO.

3) Move to France (or a French speaking part of the world like Quebec).

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make sweet love to an old hairy stinky rich french women.

this would solve several problems.

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not least that its one less old hairy stinky rich french woman that the rest of us might accidently 'make sweet love to'

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Try this:

http://www.frenchtutorial.com/education/french/

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go to school

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Look for French language tutor programs in the discount bin at computer software stores.

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That raises a question I was wondering about. I want to learn Spanish and was thinking of trying one of those computer programs. Are they any good?

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They are better than nothing, but not great.

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That raises a question I was wondering about. I want to learn Spanish and was thinking of trying one of those computer programs. Are they any good?


Hang out in the spanish site forum.

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It isn´t French. It is Freedom Language

*runs away*

Boris Godunov is offline Boris Godunov
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That raises a question I was wondering about. I want to learn Spanish and was thinking of trying one of those computer programs. Are they any good?


I picked up a German tutor (hehehe, program, that is). They tend to be basic, but that's good for a beginner. I can't remember the brand I bought, but they have them in many languages, including French. They usually have an adventure game that is totally in the language and you work up to being able to play the game.

The drawbacks are that the programs tend not to teach the rules of grammar and sentence construction. They tend to focus on vocabulary and conjugating present-tense forms of verbs.

They aren't a substitute for a formal class, but they are better than nothing.

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I want to learn the French language. I don't have any money at all.

Please help me.


Well you could have signed up to be an Iraqi intelligence officer...but I guess that opportunity is gone now

August Borms is offline August Borms
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I want to learn the French language. I don't have any money at all.

Please help me.


Go to the library and borrow a French schoolbook or two

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I want to learn the French language. I don't have any money at all.

Please help me.


hi ,

call the consulate in la , there are free lesson for a small amount of community work , ....

or visit some of the gulf states , .....

have a nice day

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http://www.nstorm.com/games/game_detail.asp?game_id=42

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Why do you want to learn French?

"It is the one and only perfectly justified bigotry, that all frenchmen should be set ablaze for inflicting their foul tongue upon the world."
-Probably nobody. But it needs to be said.

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german's better.

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Why do you want to learn French?

"It is the one and only perfectly justified bigotry, that all frenchmen should be set ablaze for inflicting their foul tongue upon the world."
-Probably nobody. But it needs to be said.


What's foul about the French language? It can get you laid and sounds very sexy to many people.

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What's foul about the French language? It can get you laid and sounds very sexy to many people.

Elok's just jealous

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german's better.


Yeah, but I'm planning on moving to Canada.

So I thought French might be a little helpful

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Tassadar :
Learning French takes time. Much time. It is a complicated language with very many rules and a throng of exceptions. You should look for subtitled French movies (I'm sure any media-library has some for you to borrow), so that you get used with how it sounds. A tutorial book from the library will help you to understand the basic words, and will allow you take better books.

As you get acquainted with the language, you should watch TV5, the French-speaking channel, which is broadcasted worldwide IIRC (if you have cable or satellite TV, you should get it) : all movies there are French AND subtitled in French, which is excellent to learn the language once you have begun understanding it written.
Also, if you want to further progress in written language, you can hang around in French speaking forums. Here's the main one about Civ3 (I know you don't play it anymore )

But if you lack money, I strongly suggest you either to learn a less time-eating language, so that you can invest more time adressing your financial problems

If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask.

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Yeah, but I'm planning on moving to Canada.

So I thought French might be a little helpful


hi ,

not only that , its one of the two universal world languages , ........ after english that is , ....

if you speak both you can talk all over the world , ....

have a nice day

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Pederasty is easy to do and sounds sexy to many people. It's still wrong, dammit.
While I'm griping, I HATE New York City.

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Pederasty is easy to do and sounds sexy to many people. It's still wrong, dammit.
While I'm griping, I HATE New York City.

Do you want to make new deadly enemies that much ?

Boris, please don't torture him immediately, please

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More people probably speak Spanish or Chinese than Frog, panag.

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Pederasty is easy to do and sounds sexy to many people.


Not to any humane person with a shred of compassion for the "other party's" suffering. Personally, I take the "Christian" view of child molesters - throw them in the ocean with millstones tied around their necks.

What's the matter Elok? Not getting any lately? I'm not criticising, I'm in much the same position myself.

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Erm, "pederasty" is homosexuality. Cruddy, you are referring to "pedophilia".

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quote:
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Yeah, but I'm planning on moving to Canada.

So I thought French might be a little helpful
Why? You already know English.

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Erm, "pederasty" is homosexuality. Cruddy, you are referring to "pedophilia".


Uh, no it isn't... Pederasty is another way of saying "pedophilia."

 
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