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oh my god does thanks a lot really sound ominous to native speakers D: I’ve also been saying it forever!!!!!!!!!!! nooooooo

I think it depends on your culture (like it sounds like that to me, being from the UK, but it might be totally normal in the US). Also, it only freaks me out by text, if someone says it out loud and I can hear their tone, it doesn't even register! Definitely don't worry about it, we all have our personal "dialect" in a language, the words we love and the words we hate :)

(if you want alternatives though, "thanks so much" reads much more friendly to me over text!")

My french boss filling my poor English heart with dread multiple times a day when she texts me "thanks a lot!" There is no good way to tell her how evil and hateful "thanks a lot!" sounds to English speakers.

#mine #adventures in france #she's an english teacher and speaks great english so obvs i could never say anything lol

The French mind will never comprehend what a Little Tiled Alley With Shutters On The Walls does to a mf

#this is annecy #it's very fun and pretty there #france #mine

The kind of cultural immersion you can't get anywhere else 😍

#i get the sense but not the exact meaning so i can't translate sorry guys #literally it's fuck yours whore #but idk if that's more of a fuck you or if he was referring to someone else

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Nothing makes your native language feel foreign like having speakers of another language look at it a bit too closely in the way you do when words are new & intriguing entities instead of transparent conveyors of meaning. It’s delightful. I saw someone explain that rendez-vous is the 2nd person imperative of the French verb “se rendre” = to go (somewhere) and “dépareillé” (mismatched) comes from the word ‘pareil’ (same) so rendez-vous is just “you go (there)” and our word for mismatched is just “unsamed” and as a French speaker it was so destabilising. I had never looked at the word dépareillé and thought ‘unsamed’ in my life, it felt dignified and whole until you poked it. My English speaking cousin asked me what was our word for memo and I said “pense-bête” and he translated “think-dumb? we say memorandum and you say think-dumb?” and I was like nooo stop doing this

#my bf runs away from me when i do this lol #c'était il y a? you mean it was there is?#him: no!!

This unholy translation just came across my desk. The English is obviously wrong (it's postcard vocabulary, so 'wish you were here' is the expression they want) but I'm convinced the french should be "j'aurais" not "j'aurai". My bf says the original french is fine? Can someone chime in and explain why it's right if it is? Because if so I've learned this tense wrong lol.

#tumblr followers i kneel before you a broken man..

How can I learn french in these conditions y'all

#he's the worst for being asked about appropriate conduct in french #should i vousvoie your parents? you should do what you want :)#mine #and guys i wanted to tell a kid #that the answer didnt matter rn we should focus on understanding the question #so genuinely not rude at all in english lol i just fucked up #but funny that french teachers say that

French person, reading the sentence 'I haven't been there yet': how would you say that in French?

Me: :) oh it's *extremely loud windows reset noise*

#frantically scribbling notes like it was a maths equation lol #encore?? encore?? where's the fucking encore??#mine #also enjoy the aggressively french envelope i took notes om

Every time I see my students I ask them "what have you been up to?" and explain when they're confused and yet the next time it's exactly the same. They must Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that particular sentence. And I continue to ask it because we literally say it incessantly and They. Must. Learn.

#there are certain sentences the french brain simply rejects #like 'wear clothes' the simply hate that combination of words #tbf any w word is aggressive and hateful to the french because they barely use that letter #esp to start words #so it's just ugly and confusing for them #they prefer an unholy combination of verbs to represent the sound

14 year old girl: *asks me about my high school summer memories*

Me: *trying to remember one that doesn't involve alcohol*

#i explained suns out guns out to her lol

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I don't think I could live in places that give more than one kiss on the cheek when greeting. I don't know about other countries, but here in Colombia, sometimes it's not a real kiss but more like a cheek-to-cheek pat and a side hug. And it's usually just one kiss. Of course, this is only with family and friends, but it can also be between coworkers if you are close and have known each other for a while.

#i always say french people who announce #i kiss 2/3/4 times #when they greet you #is the francophone 'im a hugger!' lol

French/English people communicate in each others languages through a series of slumdog millionaire-like flashbacks

French dude: how do you say 'quel autre' ?

Me: it's 'what else?'

Him: ah yes, George Clooney and his espresso.

Different french dude: what does 'instead' mean?

Me: "plutôt que"

Him: "ohh like Adele" *starts singing* "instead I'll fiiiiind someone like you" (I didn't have the heart to tell him it's actually 'nevermind')

#it's very sweet btw im not taking the piss #i do the same thing in french its a good way to solidify the vocab in your mind #teaching adventures #im glad when students feel comfortable enough to be silly w me #because i was basically on the verge of tears every french class lol #why did i keep taking it??#mine

Trying to train myself to say "du coup" or "alors" as I reluctantly begin my work like a real french person, but I'm too emotionally attached to "donc"

#great word. feels good in the mouth. use it approx 1000 times a day