Counting in French.

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Counting in French.

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1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,10 and 7, 10 and 8, 10 and 9.
20,21,22,23,...
30.31...
40,41...
50,51...
60,61...
70,71...

80? Non! 4-20, 4-20 1, 4-20 2, 4-20 3, ...
90? Non! 4-20 10, 4-20 11, 4-20 12, ... 4-20 10-7, 4-20 10-8, 4-20 10-9.

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D'accord. C'est assez bizarre. Mais c'est la france qui se croit exempt des lois d'économie.

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Ouai, c'est incroyable que les Français comptent le plus bizarre.

Malheuresement, il est qu'il est. Tant pis!

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I totally would have remembered what you were talking about, like, ten years ago.

Now I can only vaguely remember being confused by French numbers.

Back to your regularly scheduled French thread!

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I can't read this thread without thinking about the SNL skit about the french class with Alec Baldwin, Adam Sandler, and Chris Farley.

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Je veux reapprendre le francais. J'etudie pour quatre ou cinq ans, et je ne parle plus bein . Je n'ecrire pas bien sans aucun doute plus. J'utilise un dictionairre trouver presque tout mon formation des mots et mon vocabulaire. Je lire bien, mais j'ai oublie beaucoup de vocabulaire.

Mais, j'ai l'intention voyager au l'Afrique et l'Europe pour ministere le compissant et enseigner theologie au les pasteurs analphabete. J'ai un ou deux ans se preparer.

Nous devrious commencer un fil de discussion (thread) pour les conversations en francais. Ne permettre anglais pas! C'est comme l'immersion en francais.


(translation:

I want to relearn french! I studied for 4-5 hyears, and I do not speak it well anymore. I definitely do not write well. I'm using a dictionary for a lot of my formations and vocabulary. I read well, but I have forgotten a lot of vocabulary.

But, I want/plan to travel to Africa and Europe for compassionate ministry (work progects) and teaching theology/leadership to illiterate pastors. I have a year or two to prepare.

We should start a thread for french conversations. No english allowed! It's like immesion in french.

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Tres bien fat! Je comprende que vous ecrite, plus ou moins. J'ai etudier francais pour trois mois solamente. Je ne parle pas tres bien. Le mois prochain, je dois aller a Geneve, Suisse por mon emploi. Ils parlent anglais, mais je vodrais parler avec eux dans en francais un petit. Les enfants de mon ami dans Geneve ne parlent pas anglais, j'espere comprendre eux.

L'idee avoir un discussion de francais est tres bon!

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What I hope I said:
Very good fat! I understood what you wrote, more or less. I have studied french for 3 months only. I don't speak very well. Next month, I have to go to Geneva, Switzerland for my job. They speak enlish, but I want to talk with them in French a little. The children of my friend in Geneva do not speak enlighs, I hope to understand them.

The idea to have a thread of french is very good!

As far as the counting, what is weird is that instead of having a word for "80", they say four twenty. Like 4x20. So literally, 82 in english would be "four twenty two". Even worse, once you get to the 90's you say four twenty eleven for example to get 91. And 99 is four twenty ten nine basically, because 19 is ten and nine.

So basically if they complain out our non metric system because it's not logical they don't have room to talk.

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Tres bien fat! Je comprende que vous ecrite, plus ou moins. J'ai etudier francais pour trois mois solamente. Je ne parle pas tres bien. Le mois prochain, je dois aller a Geneve, Suisse por mon emploi. Ils parlent anglais, mais je vodrais parler avec eux dans en francais un petit. Les enfants de mon ami dans Geneve ne parlent pas anglais, j'espere comprendre eux.

L'idee avoir un discussion de francais est tres bon!
Je comprehend ca tres bein. tu-etudies pour trois mois solamente? Je suis impressionne!

Est ce que tu voux commencer le "thread" en Social aujourd'hui? Je pense qu'il y a plusieurs qui partisipais dans le thread.

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Mais jim, avec ton "rant" tu as oublie 70! 70 n'est pas 70, mais c'est 60-10.

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clement wrote:Mais jim, avec ton "rant" tu as oublie 70! 70 n'est pas 70, mais c'est 60-10.
Oui, je sois. Tres etrange!

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