salut ! je suis élève de français qui prépare le diplôme du baccalauréat international, maintenant j'apprends le français au niveau standard, ou niveau B1.
mes pronoms sont il en français et he/it en anglais. mon blog principal s'appelle @metaphorically-im-awhore, c'est en anglais.
ce blog, je veux l'utiliser pour trouver des amis qui parlent aussi français, ainsi que lire et écrire des fanfictions. j'en écris quelquefois en anglais mais je ne les ai jamais postées.
mes fandoms :
project sekai
vocaloid
sonic
stranger things
my chemical romance
twenty one pilots
fall out boy
teen wolf
the maze runner/le labyrinthe
mes autres loisirs :
la couture
l'écriture
la musique (je joue de la batterie, la guitare, je chante et je fais aussi de la production)
dessiner
dni est simple, suivez pas si vous êtes homophobe, transphobe, raciste etc.
le français c'est joli hein mais qu'est-ce-que c'est chiant quand on est non-binaire.
déjà si on veut du neutre on est obligés de choisir des néopronoms parce-que contrairement aux anglos on a pas de they/them, non seulement pratique mais en plus Pas trop compliqué à adopter par les alliés néophytes (et encore, vu combien de "bouhou mais c'est pas pluriel comme pronom" on voit encore passer, c'est déjà pas du gâteau). du coup on a deux fois plus de chances de se faire mégenrer en permanence.
ensuite même quand on règle l'histoire des pronoms, nous on a des mutations genrées, donc une phrase ça devient un vrai parcours du combattant parce-qu'il faut bidouiller toutes les terminaisons avec du scotch et des gommettes pour que ça ressemble un peu à quelque-chose. autant à l'écrit y'a le point médian (ou les mots pratiques genres acteur/actrice = acteurice), autant à l'oral c'est la galère.
ensuite quand comme moi on est agenre c'est encore plus chiant, parce-que déjà l'ai du mal avec le they/them anglais, mais c'est vaguement ignorable, autant en français les néos les plus utilisés c'est des mélanges entre il et elle (iel, ael, etc). et puis les terminaisons bidouillées, c'est aussi des mélanges entre le masculin et le féminin (traducteur/traductrice = traducteurice). et certes je sais que de base l'écriture inclusive c'était conceptuellement plus pour l'égalité homme-femme/le féminisme cis que la transidentité, mais c'est un peu tout ce qu'on a.
sauf que moi. bah je suis pas juste "ni un homme ni une femme". je suis pas un mélange des deux non plus. je suis pas une demi-mesure. je suis pas un compromis entre les deux, je suis pas un putain de point médian en fait.
donc au final j'ai aucun mot pour moi. sauf qu'on vit dans une société (youpi), et qu'à moins de m'isoler dans une cave pour le restant de mes jours (j'ai testé mais y'a un truc tout con qui s'appelle la santé mentale ça m'a mi des bâtons dans les roues) bah les gens ils ont besoin de mots pour pouvoir interagir avec moi correctement. et j'en ai pas, des mots.
So you've decided to jump in and start reading in your target language. This can be daunting, so how do you go about setting up a strategy for reading?
Relaxed Reading
This is an easy way to start. You don't look up vocabulary, grammar, character readings, or anything while you read. This is similar to how you would read in your native language and will take less time because you aren't stopping and looking anything up. The goal is to improve critical thinking and overall fluency, while maintaining the relaxation of reading (no pressure to look things up).
This can be good for someone just starting out reading because you can gauge how much you understand in a book. You can determine if you think that the book is harder or easier than your current level, or just about right.
Pros:
Takes less time than looking things up
Cons:
You might not understand as much as you hoped
If you understand > 70% of the page, and can use critical thinking and existing knowledge to make educated guesses based on context clues, then this would be a good strategy. If you understand < 60% of the page, you might need to find something easier or shorter to start with for this exercise. You want to be able to make guesses for <30% of the information and to be right most of the time.
Active Reading
This is when you want to mine for vocabulary or if you are reading something above your level and want to understand what you are reading but can't without a dictionary. The goal is to enjoy reading but also to actively learn vocabulary, grammar, characters, etc.
Pros:
Learning new vocabulary/grammar/etc.
Comprehensive understanding of what you read
Cons:
Takes more time
This can be thought of as a study session, and you can take notes or make flashcards as you go along. You might also stop to look up grammar points as you go to make sure that you understand them. This method is more about quality than quantity.
Combination
As the name suggestions, this is a combo of the first two methods. You combine active reading (taking notes and looking things up) with relaxed reading (guessing when you don't know a word but can generally understand based on context clues). You can set this up any way you like.
Start out reading a page, a chapter, or a whole book without looking anything up or stopping (the relaxed reading bit) and then go back and actively look things up and take notes (the active reading bit). You can mark where you got stuck by a highlight or a note and then you'll remember where you were tripped up when you do a second read-through.
You can also go along in the relaxed reading strategy, guessing where you think you generally understand things from context, and only looking up things you really aren't sure about.
Pros:
The best of both worlds - recreational reading and study-focused reading
Cons:
This method can take up more time (although you do get to pick how long you'd like to take to read)
This method will allow you to practice the flow of reading, but also go back and look up the parts you didn't get so that you can ensure comprehension. You can also do this over the course of several days if you like.
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Mille/cent: if a number is made of only one thousand or one hundred, you shouldn't add Un in front of it. 190: Cent quatre-vingt-dix, not un cent.
Reading a verb ending in -ent of the third person plural of the present tense as the -ant of the present participle or the gerund: Ils disent > Il diz, not Il dizan
Pronouncing the S of Les, Des, Ils/Elles, etc. - they can be turned into a Z to make a liaison when followed by a vowel, but should never be pronounced SS.
Using Z/S and SS interchangeably.
Pronouncing the U in Qu- words (Quelconque, Quiconque)
Pronouncing A as E: Je vis à Péris.
Somehow pronouncing -tion as -chion or -ci as -chi ("Ochian" for Océan)
Forgetting to pronounce the last syllable of long numbers: Soixan(te), Ving(t)
Mixing up Jouer and Mettre/Ecouter de la musique: Jouer is to perform.
Forgetting to pronounce the last syllable of feminine adjectives or nouns, making them sound masculine: Grande, Boulangère, etc.
It would be fun to re-learn french, but specifically go for one of the African dialects, just to make it clear that even if I only learned the language to be able to talk to more people, I have no respect for the colonialism. It took immense violence to put french into Africa, but now no amount of violence can take Africa out of french. And I'm joining this fight specifically against you.
Also just fuck the Académie Française and their pissy attitude to declare any language evolution that doesn't come from 10 white guys in paris as incorrect, let the language be changed by the people who speak it the way a language naturally does
see this scar right here? That's from when my own pet cigarette turned on me and bit me as a child. my father had to put it down in the shed with an ash tray
tu vois cette cicatrice juste là ? Ça date de quand ma propre cigarette de compagnie s'est retournée contre moi et m'a mordu quand j'étais un enfant. mon père a du la tuer dans le cabanon avec un cendrier
can you provide any more. uh. vocabularies gay en français? (tried to ask in french, but couldn't make heads or tails of how to structure questions haha)
you don't know how big is my smile is right now
1. the basics of gender, sexuality and romantic labels
tldr: its the same as in english but with a french accent. really, once you know how to say "sexual", "romantic" and "gender", you just add the prefix of your choice and voilà. to make it even easier, those words are VERY close to their english counterparts:
sexual = sexuel.le -> homosexuel.le, bisexuel.le...
but in the end, still like in english, we often shorten these words to their prefix alone: "je suis bi", "il est aro"...
and if you wonder about labels which don't follow this structure, i suggest you look it up for yourself, but there's still a 98% chance the term is The Same With a French Accent, exemples:
gay = gay (i shit you not)
lesbian = lesbienne
sapphic = sapphique
achillean = achilléen
non binary = non binaire
c'est vraiment aussi simple que ça :)
2. how to fuck this binary shit
if you're familiar with french, you probably know it's a gendered language, and maybe wonder how you can speak about people who don't wish to be gendered as masc or fem. the answer is inclusive writing (écriture inclusive), which i actually already showed you above, see:
fem form: bisexuelle
masc form: bisexuel
inclusive form: bisexuel.le
works the same for gendered nouns:
fem form: musicienne
masc form: musicien
inclusive form: musicien.ne
as you can see, in most cases, you can obtain the inclusive form of a word by combining their masc and fem form and a "separator" . i chose to use a simple period, but a hyphen or median point ("·" <- this thing) and probably more* can also be used - edit after seeing comments : take note that using a dot can sometimes fuck up screen readers and also be read as a website url!
in other cases (especially for words ending in -eux/-euse or -teur/-trice), inclusive form can be obtained by smashing the fem and masc form all together:
fem form: actrice
masc form: acteur
inclusive form: acteurice
*however, i need you to keep in mind
i am not a french teacher, just trying my best to explain a pretty complex mess. @ french speakers, if you see any mistake or anything i missed, please speak up.
inclusive writing is still being heavily debated, so it has no official guidelines, tbh even i freestyle it whenever i'm too lazy to look up how i should write something. is "lea" the correct inclusive form for "le/la"? fuck if i know but i sure will use it because who even knows.
and ofc inclusive writing is not only useful for non binary people, but also a tool for feminism that allows to get past the "masculine wins" rule (= when writing plurals, if a single item/person in the group is masc, the entire group must be gendered as such)!
3. mmh pronpuns
again, if you know french, you know we have no equivalent to "they" as even the plural forms for "she" and "he" are gendered. so there goes your only option if you're uninterested in either of those : neopronouns, my beloveds.
the most common one (and the one you should use when unsure of a person's gender or paired with inclusive writing to fuck that "masculine wins" shit) : iel, iels for plural. some other french neopronouns i saw include ael, ul, ol, ille, xel... but feel free to make your own up, this is what neopronouns are about. btw les francophones je suis curieux.se, si vous utilisez d'autres pronoms que elle/il/iel, dites moi quoi !
4. important!
faggot = pédé (there are SO MANY synonyms but i'll just give you the most common)
