• gregorum
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    27 days ago

    french is such a headache, but, then again, so is english. it’s just that english is more forgiving when you mess up, lol

    but, yeah… ‘ce’ is (iirc) a more formal declarative when speaking generally to an audience rather than when speaking conversationally with another person.

    eventually, a native french speaker is going to come in and admonish the both of us for manglish their language, lol

    • degen@midwest.social
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      27 days ago

      I want to venture into some of the french speaking parts of lemmy, but I’m scared and it’s been waaaay too long lmao. And I definitely wish I could just “get” it like I get english (for the most part), but idk the hopes of that for a second language. Probably have to move to France lol

      Like even the way native speakers type and talk is nowhere near “proper” most of the time, but it’s the language. And I wish I could do that in french, ya know? Hey, maybe Quebec will do!

      Aaand I upset the native french speaker even more now.