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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hello fellow Indian. This is very similar to my linguistic capabilities if you substitute Japanese for the bit of French I learnt in school / college 30 years ago. Ok, I can't really follow someone when they speak French, but I can read it well enough even now.

[–] ElPussyKangaroo 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AYEEEEE wassup bruh.

Does a namaste, then raises hand for high five

Nice. I know every language is pretty difficult mostly, but as someone who's had a hard time learning Hindi after realising it uses the same script and yet is a different language from Marathi, French just blows my fucking mind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

French just blows my fucking mind.

In my experience, it was reasonably simple to learn how to read / write French. We had it in school for 3 years and then college for a couple of years. The emphasis was on reading / writing and not so much on speaking / listening, though I remember we had to recite some French poetry once. The teacher's ears must have fallen of hearing our impeccable accents :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bonjour, aimez-vous les croissants?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bonjour, aimez-vous les croissants?

Un peu, mais je prefere les baguettes

(and also I just realized I totally don't know how to make acute / grave accents on my keyboard, if that's possible at all with an en-US layout)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here, you can copy-paste: é è ê ë à â ï î ô ù û ç 😉