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Monday, October twelve, two-thousand twenty-six

​Good evening my dear brother and good morning to the people of the Mediterranean. It's rather cold, chilly actually, despite being autumn we still put the air conditioning on and it nerves me, but Halima insists that it is hot. It is not hot. It is October, what a mad-mad child she is, much like yourself. How is the weather in Tokyo? What did you have for breakfast? I had bell-pepper stuffed dolma with broiled carrots. I know that's not a breakfast food, but I did not feel like cooking. ​I got rather depressed last night after a fairly lovely morning and afternoon. I prepared a future manifesto of three scholarships & an additional fully-funded PhD and then sat in the rubble of the fact that I haven't even said hello to my first class or sat down for my first study session. I gave myself ​four mountains to climb while I still didn't take my first hike, yet alone bought the equipment. When you look at life, you start to believe all things are possible, good and bad, but things happen through cause and effect, action and consequence, not through extravagant planning, though that is the start, action they say is a manifestation of thought and I have many thoughts. ​Uncle Nabil took Fatima to work today. I am in the mood for chocolate and lemon wafers, but I have to remind myself that I want to reach fifty kilos. Results don't make themselves, do they? I'm doing great. I'll send you updates throughout my day and I hope you do the same. ​Take care of yourself. – Naema.

Lundi douze octobre deux mille vingt-six

​Bonsoir, mon cher frère, et bonjour aux habitants de la Méditerranée. Il fait plutôt froid, voire glacial en fait ; bien que ce soit l’automne, nous avons quand même allumé la climatisation, ce qui m’agace, mais Halima insiste pour dire qu’il fait chaud. Il ne fait pas chaud. On est en octobre, quelle fille déjantée, tout comme toi. Quel temps fait-il à Tokyo ? Qu’as-tu mangé au petit-déjeuner ? J’ai mangé des dolmas farcis aux poivrons accompagnés de carottes rôties. Je sais que ce n’est pas un petit-déjeuner typique, mais je n’avais pas envie de cuisiner. ​Je me suis sentie plutôt déprimée hier soir, après une matinée et un après-midi plutôt réjouissants. J’ai préparé un futur projet comprenant trois bourses et un doctorat entièrement financé, puis je me suis retrouvée face à la dure réalité : je n’ai même pas encore dit bonjour à ma première classe ni participé à ma première session d’étude. Je me suis donnée quatre montagnes à gravir alors que je n’ai même pas encore fait ma première excursion, sans parler d’acheter l’équipement. Quand on regarde la vie, on commence à croire que tout est possible, le bon comme le mauvais, mais les choses se produisent par cause à effet, par action et conséquence, et non par une planification extravagante, même si c’est le point de départ. On dit que l’action est la manifestation de la pensée, et j’ai beaucoup de pensées. Oncle Nabil a emmené Fatima au travail aujourd’hui. J’ai envie de gaufrettes au chocolat et au citron, mais je dois me rappeler que je veux atteindre les cinquante kilos. Les résultats ne viennent pas tout seuls, n’est-ce pas ? Je m’en sors très bien. Je t’enverrai des nouvelles tout au long de la journée et j’espère que tu feras de même. Prends soin de toi. – Naema.

Je sais que parfois on doit la prononce avec le s et parfois le s est muet, mais je vais devenir fou parce que j'ai cherché sur internet et j'ai vu plusieurs explications différents.

Par exemple, comment prononceriez-vous ces expressions?

Le bon sens →

Les cinq sens →

Dans les deux sens →

Ça n'a aucun sens →

À mon sens →

Je sens →

Hi! I'm looking for a native French speaker to check some of my thoughts about French. Like, I'm playing with Welsh and French linguistics. But my requests won't be hard. Actually, I'm just using the foreign languages as part of writing a book (suddenly). I also study in the first year of philology (but we obviously have linguistics). And I'm from Russia. I know only Russian and English and a bit of German (i've learned it at school). But if you interested, l've also started to learn Norwegian. I'll wait for your comments

Hello community.

On Reddit there is link of a group called "Say Bonjour." I was a part of it, but now I am unable to find it. Can anyone help me, please

Hi all. I was taught that after n’avoir pas we use de. Is Duolingo wrong or is there more nuance to it? Thank you :)

I encountered this in a DELF B1 practice test:

The full sentence: La destination fait le plein auprès de la clientèle française

What does it mean in this context? I have seen «faire le plein » meaning to fill up, but I'm not quite sure of the translation here. It seems quite idiomatique

Salut!
J'ai une question par rapport au mot "méchant" en français québécois (ou peut-être canadien, je ne sais pas si c'est utilisé ailleurs).

Normalement on dirait "c'est une méchante bonne idée" ou "il a des méchantes belles fesses". Est-ce que "méchant" est un adverbe dans ce cas-ci? Dans ce cas, pourquoi y a-t-il un accord de genre et nombre? En vrai, je ne sais pas si en français les adverbes peuvent décliner en genre ou nombre. Je m'attendrais à que ça fonctionne comme "tout" dans des constructions comme "elle est tout petite" et que "méchant" reste invariable.

What is the french slang for cigarette ? I know clope , garo but I've seen on Instagram

People from north or south part (not sure) called cigarette " schtonne , schttone " (I have no idea how to spell it , just heard it once or twice) , and that's the most beautiful slang I've heard and now I want to know how to spell it , is this word really exist ? please help .

Hey all,

I took the DALF C2 written exam today, and unfortunately ran out of time to finish my answer!!

I had a strategy planned for the exam (2 hours planning, 1 hour writing, 30 mins checking my writing). And based on the mock exams I’d done, I thought I’d have more than enough time to finish. Also, I did quite well in the DALF C1 last year, which gave me confidence.

I think my downfall was that I spent quite a lot of time rewriting my arguments on the rough paper provided alongside the exam script. It’s a real shame.

I ended up not having enough time to write my third section of my answer. I wrote all the other bits though (opening section, first and second points, and closing section). I don’t think I wrote enough (I probably wrote around 420 words, when the minimum length required is 700 words).

I also found the exam question really difficult - much more so than the mock exams I’ve done.

Very grateful for any advice or reassurance please.! I know I can retake the exam if I don’t pass though. And in the meantime, I’m just going to focus now on the oral exam tomorrow.

i heard this line in a song and i thought i knew what it meant but in the english translation it said "i come to xxx you" so now im wondering if this has an inappropriate meaning.

This is a question from curiosity, since the only languages I speak have only one way of saying 'you'. How do Francophones feel when they are vouvoied? How do Francophones feel when they are tutoied? Is there a difference?

2) When body parts are involved, French tends to avoid the possessive adjective and instead specify the possessor with pronominal verbs.

Je me brosse les dents

Il s’est cassé le bras

I saw the explanation above on Lawless French, and I was curious to know if you could still hear native speakers using the possessive adjective version instead, since they said "tends":

Je brosse mes dents

Il a cassé son bras

Dans les deux premiers cadres, quel est le rôle du circonflexe dans les onomatopées ? ​

Je remarque dans beaucoup de BD francophones un usage très répandu des circonflexes dans les onomatopées, mais je ne comprends pas leur utilité. Dans l'exemple, quel serait la différence dans la prononciation entre rahtak ​et râhtak?

Bonsoir tout le gens! I just finished A1 level in Alliance Francaise recently and planning to continue to enroll to A2 level for friends and for my future. Yet I admit that I have a hard time constructing sentences in real time whenever I talk to someone in French.

Earlier, ma soeur noted that my accent was really awful for someone studying French, and she thought that most likely due to the media that I often consume which is only limited to English and Filipino. I agree with her with few additions: I really have a hard time listening to spoken French in any media. And I could only understand them when its slow like the audios in listening activities at Hachette. And I felt that it must be huge reason why I also have a hard time pronouncing words in French.

Any advice how to be better at listening? And is my progress normal for someone who finished A1 or I need to improve more?

Merci beaucoup pour votre aide!

bonjour! je cherche des bibliothèques qui ont un grand sélection des livres numériques (idéalement sur Libby), et qui offrent des cartes pour les non-résidents. si c’est pertinent, j’habite au Canada (Ontario).

merci, et excusez-moi pour mes erreurs.

I’m looking for artists with less than 10k monthly listeners, as my Spotify algorithm barely recommends me creators with under 50k. I’ve found it really hard to get into the lesser known french indie scene but thought y’all might know some artists.

I got into Danganronpa in June and gained a liking for Hiyoko

Do you know the songs of the composer Poulenc? Are his songs suitable for leaning some french? What other songwriters are good for learning french i.e. that write songs with a lot of words?

The correct form is with the Conditionnel, but would it still be possible to hear the Présent or Futur in everyday speech, even though they aren't grammatically correct?

Il a dit : « Nous irons à la banque demain. »

Il a dit que nous irions à la banque demain.

Il a dit que nous allons à la banque demain.

Il a dit que nous irons à la banque demain.

Je regarde cette vidéo sur Jean-Paul Belmondo mais je comprends pas ce que le narrateur dit à 1:13. "cette fois-ci, c'était Michel Legrand qui chorégraphiait ce duel où le grand Jean-Paul _________ d'astuces sous les yeux de Marlène Jobert" C'est quoi?

Merci d'avance pour votre aide.

«L’industrie du nettoyage est une industries dangereuse pour la santé, partout et pour toutes celles et tous ceux qui y travaillent.

I’m analyzing the text and I was wondering why the author uses this? I looked it up and someone said it’s just a feminism change done to the language to make it more inclusive.

I’m doubting all the years I’ve studied this language lol help. Did I miss a grammar lesson or something

Edit: I accidentally typed tout instead of tous, my bad 🤦🏻‍♀️

Edit: Grammatically it’s solved, the intent of the author, still a bit unclear.

I personally love “là-dessus”, it’s so fun to say and I love whenever I get the chance to say it

I live in India, and for the first few weeks of learning French I never heard it spoken outside a video or an app. My first real conversation was a fifteen-minute video call with a French speaker I found through a language exchange group. I had rehearsed two sentences in my head, and when he replied with something I hadn't planned for, I understood almost none of it. I translated from Hindi and English in my head, took far too long to answer, and mostly smiled and nodded.

​Looking back, it was both embarrassing and the most motivating moment of that first month, because it showed me exactly what I couldn't do yet. For people who learned French outside France, I'd love to know where you found your first person to speak with, how that first conversation went, and what you wish you'd known beforehand.

Je reste en Louisiane, et "être après" est le moyen qu'on dit "être en train de" icitte, et je crois quèques places d'autres en Amerique du Nord aussi toujours. Nous-autres on le dit bien souvent itou, mais je le dis pas équand je parle avec du monde qui vient pas de la Louisiane pour être mieux compris; est-ce qu'il faut vraiment? C'est connu à quel point mondialement?

Edit: Une éxample, en lieu de "je mangeais quand tu m'as appellé," ça serait "j'étais après manger quand tu m'as appellé." Une autre c'est "Je peux pas m'en venir, j'suis après faire mes linges."