Non pas encore. Je le visiterai un jour...............confused3

Natural B,

I'm stilling trying to comprehend French and Spanish and it's a joy when I attempt to understand what people are saying. I'm not fluent in both and can read it ok so may I ask( translate) what you just said/asked Bele?

NaturalB said/asked( to Bele)" Yes, it is a lovely city in the outskirts ( I guess) of France. Then you asked Bele:" Have you already been there( Lyon) Bele said: "No I haven't or( something like that), but I would like visit there one day". I have no help or no book in front of me in my quest of understanding it( at least to the best of my knowledge). It's been a while since I had French. To me, it's a more complicated language to learn but I enjoy learning it as I do with Spanish. Even if I'm not taking it( I'm currently taking Spanish), I always try to keep up with the little bit that I did learn. Merci beaucoup!

Hey Cee Cee, my apologies if I confused you...the phase 'en outre' is contextual...

(please remember I am far from an expert!!)...literally (I think) it means 'in addition'

but it can mean 'in fact' which is generally 'en fait' in French, in this case I meant

'as well' which could also be 'aussi' in french but I've been told that it is more

sophisticated to use en outre...so....in response to Bele's comment 'You live in a big

city...' I simply responded '...yeah, itslovely/really nice(!!)as well.' Therest ofyour

translation is spot on...Ithen asked Bele 'have you been to Lyon before?' who then

as you said,replied'...not yetbut hewould like to one day.'



Personally I've never tried Spanish at all, I can't roll my r's(!) and it's tough enough in
French with all that throat scratching! I'm currently learning German in France right

now which isn't bizzare as itsounds...it's actually helping me with my French as I'm

being taken back to the grass roots of learning a language which you kinda forget as
you go along...

Anyhoo...hope I've explained myself a little better....take care... niceone.gif

natural b& CeeCee..........

As a beginner to both languagesat this point french is little bit easier than Spanish for me...........

Natural B,

Sometimes I be on the Internet and there is a French Website that I watch certain programs on. I was under the impression that the word"outre" meant outward or " away from" because when they refered to the segment being from France, the used the word " Outre Mer" so I assumed that it meant away from France.

I took very little German when I was a youngster. I thought that German wasn't a very bad language to learn, but forgot most of what I've learned from it. I liked it fairly well. Far as coinciding one language from another, that can happen.Currently, I'm taking Spanish and it's funny. I was listening to a Cape Verdean CD and they had what they were singing in English and in Portuguese. For the most part, I was able to translate what the lyrics said because in some ways Portuguese and Spanish are similar, but at the same time their pronounciation was different as I matter of fact it's similar to France----it isn't as it looks and in some way if I had to compare the comprehension of French and Portuguese, French is slightly easier to comprehend than Portuguese, but I like Portuguese because it seems like a beautiful language. I was talking with a Friend of my boyfirend's. She's a Cape Verdean-American woman and she was telling me that if you know Spanish, than you can pick up on Portuguese very fast. Supposedly that was how she was able to Speak Spanish in 6 months.Out of all the languages I liked and learned I like Spanish the best. To me, it's an easier language to learn and it's a down to earth. I especiallylike the historyof the Spanish culture.

Bele,

I think that if you really like a certainlanguage , you're going to understand more than the other. French isn't a bad language, but it's a little tricky for me. If I think a word is pronounced one way , it end up being pronouced another. You also have to do a lot of connecting for them as well, which has thrown me off at one point. Even moreso, the French( Just about France)history is less relative. I just couldn't relate to it. I don't know if it was my old professor or it was just about the book, but she mainly taught about French history and . Unless it she was talking about other French Speaking countries .I couldn't relate to it, whereas with Spanish I could do thata little more.

@RUSENGO

kiswahili chako si fasaha lakini kinasaidia kwa mawasiliano kwani wewe ni mrundi au mnyarwanda?

mie nnatokea Unguja japo nimeishi karibu maisha yangu yote Tanzania bara

l'Outre-Mer means overseas

the term is used for the french regions outside the european continent.

mais oui...les D.O.M et les T.O.M...justspent the eveningwithguys and dollsfrom guadaloupe, martinique and la réunion...luuuuvly!!

Et Huskagee, as-tutoujours l'envie de quitter Paris...?

Natural B,

Unfortunately, at times my teacher would do it with us and some teacher's for some strnage suggest that we understand French History along with the language. She dibbled and dabbled with it, but unless they were speaking about French speaking countries like some portions of Africa, theTheCaribbeanor Tahiti, French history would comatose me.French history just seems so reserved and non-diverse. I' rather study anybody else's history than French. I didn't know how incredibly boring it was.

Coltrane,

Merci. I wasn't 100% sure about it, but I had the strangest feeling that it meant "out" or something that like that.

@cece

did u mean swahili?

@ Coltrane

I know! kiswahili changu kibaya, nashindwa kukisema vizuri lakini naelewa vyote, the basic is there! mimi ni mrundi!

@natural b

Etes vous francaise ou francophone? et je m'excuse si vous n'etes pas de sexe feminin!