French

[Atomic Boo]

i dont know about you guys, but when it comes to the language french, i find it hard to string a sentence together.
Its like "je....ummmmm.....me....cinq......eerrr????"

ive got to revise for a test and i dont have a clue! annoying like hell :red:

[Dieter]

Ah yes, the annoyances of French.

I'm pleased to inform you that you haven't even scratched the surface of possible difficulty you could have with it ;)

[Twozzok]

French. >_<

probably the worst lesson at school, i mean, whats the point?

[Mike]

I've got a degree in French. :)

[mario114]

I got an F in french at GCSE, i think it was problay down to the fact i didn't know a sinlge french word, and in my oral test just said stuff in english, but with a french accent.

[rizz]

I got a D in French. My teacher was a right bitch.

[Platty]

dont worry you dont need it, i got a B in french at GSCE level, i was well pleased with myself but ive never used it since and now i cant speak hardly any french. Ive been to france a few times since and they speak english.

[JonSt]

ive got a higher (a level) in french, dont really know why, i never speak it anyways

[Atomic Boo]

thanx guys this is reasuring
please continue to say how worthless it is!

[Raining_again]

i scraped a C on my GCSE french, ive forgotten it all apart from vin blanc, vin rouge, and biere! :D woot

[Sprout]

At my school, French isn't a compulsary subject. Yay me :heh:.

[Charlie]

I got a 2 (A in GCSE) in French last year. Should've been a 1 (A*) but my teacher hated me and gave me shit marks for the writing and speaking (marked internally), I got a 3 and 4 in them. I got a 1 and 1 for the reading and listening. Works out to be a 2 overall somehow. I think you times the speaking and reading mark by 2 and then add them together and divide by 7 - something stupid like that anyway!

[|Laguna|]

At my school, French isn't a compulsary subject. Yay me :heh:.

Lucky so an so. I bluddy hate French although it is fairly easy to get a A/B in GCSE.

[Raining_again]

yeah it was strange the cleverest half of the year had to do it, and the rest did some sorta key skill in it. We were also forced to do RE which sucked. :(

[Sprout]

yeah it was strange the cleverest half of the year had to do it, and the rest did some sorta key skill in it. We were also forced to do RE which sucked. :(
In my school RE is gone. Now its called P&E (philosophy and ethics) for some reason. Oh, and yes, its compulsary. I'm not that lucky :heh:.

[Sarka]

I do German! Yay! It does seem pointless and hard, especially speaking! I got a 2 (equivilant A) in my writing and a 3 (Equivilant B) in speaking, those are my first attempts though, I'm only in S3 (Eqiv. Year 10, I think)

[Atomic Boo]

french isnt compulsery in ur skool
i watch you with envious eyes...................

[Raining_again]

In my school RE is gone. Now its called P&E (philosophy and ethics) for some reason. Oh, and yes, its compulsary. I'm not that lucky :heh:.

wow lucky you :heh: the only thing i ever studied in RE was catholic and protestant religions. it was pretty damn closed minded but thats they way this country is. but made my exam damn easy all the same :D

[Atomic Boo]

im startin to think that i must be dead crap at french......

[Sprout]

french isnt compulsery in ur skool
i watch you with envious eyes...................
If it makes you feel better those that took french got to go to Disneyland Paris last year.

[Offerman]

Ahh French was a joyous lesson for Offers. I must admit in year 11, I did have a rather good French teacher. She had high hopes for me, and thought I would do well. However having hated French for five years, now was not the time to make amends.

After getting plenty of A's on results day, my F in French seemed nothing short of pitiful.

[Johelian]

I hated French up until the very end of my GCSE year when it all suddenly became clear and I managed to get an A* having struggled with the most basic verbs up until that point. Moral of the story - there is hope for everyone!

Now I can speak very little French, and can just about read some basic stuff like signs. That was fun.
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[Ginger_Chris]

i hated french till i dropped it at GCSE, managed to get a B, but was predicted D/E. All the questions i got i copied the example answers out of the dictionary, and the listenign/reading tests i just looked at the pictures. I pity the poor kids that have no dictionary now. It was my worst subject by far.

[Raining_again]

yeah that was sucky i was in the first year that wasnt allowed dictionaries in exams, what a bitch! :(

[Bluejay]

At my school, French isn't a compulsary subject. Yay me :heh:.
Same, no language is compulsary, I dropped both but I probably shouldn't have as you need one for university applications apparently. Ah well. Oh and yeah French sucks.

[Raining_again]

french was compulsory in my school. thats all they taught. Northern ireland schools suck basically.

[jakeee]

French isn't compulsory subject here in Finland. It's optional. Only English and Swedish (which is maybe the most hated subject in Finland :/) are compulsory here. I could have chosen French but I don't like how you pronounce the words so I picked German.

[Strider]

I dropped french and German this year wohoo i found german easier than French though, because they just suck! Thinking about it Germany sucks even more...never mind.

[EchoDesiato]

Le français est une langue très importante en Belgique, parce que c'est une des deux langues on parle ici. A Flandres on parle le néerlandais, et Ã* Wallonie on parle le français. Je n'aime pas beaucoup le français, mais je n'ai pas de choix.
Si vous trouvez des fautes dans mon post(?), je m'excuse.

[Raining_again]

i got as far as french is very important in belgium, because we talk two languages here (i think) and now im lost :P

[JonSt]

You dont really need a good grasp of english in scotland. As most people nowadays dont tendo to speak english here. Its normally some sort of glaswegian slang.

[EchoDesiato]

i got as far as french is very important in belgium, because we talk two languages here (i think) and now im lost :P
Heh, let me help you:
Translation:French is a very important language in Belgium, because it's one of the two languages we speak here. In Flanders we speak Dutch and in Wallonie (I have no idea what it is in English) we speak French. I don't like French much, but I don't have any choice.

[Shorty]

I had to do one month of French before I moved schools to somewhere crap that only did one language subject instead of two. I could've aced German, was top of the class, instead I end up in a school that doesn't even teach higher German, only foundation, barely scrape a C because none of the class ever paid attention and not one teacher we had is slightly capable.

[Raining_again]

Darksnowman has moved to france for a year i bet he knows a lot of french, shame hes not here :heh:

[Minlack]

Le français est une langue très importante en Belgique, parce que c'est une des deux langues on parle ici. A Flandres on parle le néerlandais, et Ã* Wallonie on parle le français. Je n'aime pas beaucoup le français, mais je n'ai pas de choix.
Si vous trouvez des fautes dans mon post(?), je m'excuse.

I understood all of that! OMG! Doing French AS Level was not a complete waste!!

[Konfucius]

I also learned French six years, most of the time I got "A"s but still I don't like this language; it's so complicated - especially the grammar - and hard to speak correctly.
But it opened my eyes on how difficult German must be to learn.

[Mike]

Wow some impressive arguments here: 'French sucks!' :indeed: Being able to speak a foreign language can really improve your job prospects nowadays, you know, and having lived in France for nine months, I can confidently say that the rumour that 'they all speak English anyway' is completely untrue.

[#1cubeplayer]

I've never studied French but I'm fluent in Spanish and am currently studying it. I think that you can sort of get by in all of the Romance languages once you master one of them. Speaking more than one language is great for travel, in addition to being helping you in your professional life.

[Strider]

Wow some impressive arguments here: 'French sucks!' :indeed: Being able to speak a foreign language can really improve your job prospects nowadays, you know, and having lived in France for nine months, I can confidently say that the rumour that 'they all speak English anyway' is completely untrue.

well they should do english is the universal language :)

[JonSt]

My teacher always told me that french would be useful to me, so I stuck in at and got a good grade. Now I think what a bitch, she wsted my time that could have been better served elsewhere.

[EEVILMURRAY]

The moral of the story is. Don't remember French, eet ees pointless.

[Indigo]

I too had my reservations about French GCSE, and for most of the course I imagined I'd do very poorly. However, when it got into year 11, instead of complaining about how annoying my French teacher was and how hopeless the languages department was at my school, I decided to just put some hard work in, and it paid dividends. I managed a high B in the end, which I was very satisfied with, considering the situation.

My advice is just to stick in there and don't become discouraged or lazy. If you put the effort in, your understanding will grow much more quickly than you'd expect.

[Big Red]

ha the french i like it when a nice young ladey (young as in 19-27) can whisper sweet nothings in ur ear in the language but to speak it go to france and get out of the books i find it easyer that way but for my gcses thinkin about it i got my self forcable removed from the class so i could do more art and design wich dindnt help because i still only got a c for loosing my portfolio but hay no matter now im studyin architecture and that has itds own language

[Eenuh]

Since I live in a mostly French speaking city (Brussels), I -have- to know my French. I don't know, but I think that no matter where you live, it's always good to know some other languages. Can always come in handy (especially if you travel a lot).
And no, a lot of people in France -do not- speak/know English. They're very proud of their language and appreciate it if you try to talk to them in their own language, even if that is with a lot of mistakes.

[JonSt]

The moral of the story is. Don't remember French, eet ees pointless.

He's on to something.

[Dieter]

ha the french i like it when a nice young ladey (young as in 19-27) can whisper sweet nothings in ur ear in the language but to speak it go to france and get out of the books i find it easyer that way but for my gcses thinkin about it i got my self forcable removed from the class so i could do more art and design wich dindnt help because i still only got a c for loosing my portfolio but hay no matter now im studyin architecture and that has itds own language

The lack of punctuation is impressive :woops: <== LOOK NO '.'

[kopo]

Never had any real problems with french untill this year. The teacher we have just talks and talks and ... talks. It's so bloody anoying to me that i just block her out and not listen anymore, while endulging in far more interesting fantasy worlds, where I like don't have to speak french because the world is like mine. And i have flamethrowers and rocketlaunchers instead of arms. And jets on my back. But I'm dwelling off here.

I'm getting relatively bad grades lately (24.5/50 CMON BITCH!!!), but it's because I'm bored with studying. Ah well.

[Dieter]

Never had any real problems with french untill this year. The teacher we have just talks and talks and ... talks. It's so bloody anoying to me that i just block her out and not listen anymore, while endulging in far more interesting fantasy worlds, where I like don't have to speak french because the world is like mine. And i have flamethrowers and rocketlaunchers instead of arms. And jets on my back. But I'm dwelling off here.

I'm getting relatively bad grades lately (24.5/50 CMON BITCH!!!), but it's because I'm bored with studying. Ah well.

Strange, I like her much better than the teacher we had last year (kopo and I are in the same class btw ;)). She speaks understandably and makes some very sarcastic comments sometimes that nobody catches but me :) (26/50 YEAH BITCH!!)

[syco_link]

We do German. I'm trying to learn Japanese at the moment cause thats where i want to live when i'm older. My teacher thinks it's silly and waste of time. And i know how you feel about French, we did it last year and i failed horribly :(

[KingOfHyrule]

I'm doing Irish and French for A2 at the moment, French is enjoyable but I haven't as much passion for it as I do for Irish, so I don't give it as much dedication. Plus you have to be in France to practice it efficiently, I can practice my Irish everyday here (no matter what anti-Irish language people say, it's still used actively by speakers).

[#1cubeplayer]

Do any English schools teach Spanish? I know you're right next to France, but Spain is close by too.

[JonSt]

Do any English schools teach Spanish? I know you're right next to France, but Spain is close by too.

Not really a few schools do. Anyway, spain is that close by, it pretty far

[#1cubeplayer]

I think if I travel to the northern part of my state, I would have gone a further distance than if someone went from southern England to northern Spain.

[JonSt]

I think if I travel to the northern part of my state, I would have gone a further distance than if someone went from southern England to northern Spain.

hmm, how long does it takt you in hours to take that trip