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French- & English-speakers practice together
.. [Message bilingue ~ Bilingual message] Rejoignez-nous! Come Join Us! French ^ojo^ English PROJET PILOTE : FORUM BILINGUE D'ENTRAIDE ET D'AMITIE POUR L'APPRENTISSAGE ET LA PRATIQUE DES LANGUES Members 800-plus / Membres plus de 800 EXPERIMENTAL MUTUAL-AID BILINGUAL FRIENDSHIP FORUM FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING & PRACTICE /__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/ S'inscrire sur - Join he http://minilien.com/?ZiQxcLUGmN After joining, please send your own brief intro statement to the group (name, job, studies, interests, ambitions)...as you wish. Après vous être inscrit, envoyez au groupe quelques mots sur vous (nom, boulot, études, passe-temps, ambitions)...comme vous voulez. /__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/ Communiquons par tous les moyens ! Let's communicate by all possible ways & means ! MESSAGERIE INSTANTANEE ~ INSTANT MESSENGER Yahoo, MSN, SKYPE, Google Talk, AIM, WebCam, Telephonie, etc. Invite fellow group members to talk LIVE Invitez d'autres membres à discuter EN DIRECT Introductions Présentations Vous trouverez les présentations que d'autres membres du forum ont envoyées à d'autres membres sur: Read the introductory statements of other group members at: http://minilien.com/?9VfkmdQ90q More info / Plus d'infos: http://minilien.com/?KhQ6gIGVPC Bienvenue ! Welcome ! /__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/ 0 \ _ \__\__\__\ __\__\__\_ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 0 / / / / / / / / Question: Do you need French for travel in Africa ? Marc Lurie wrote: .....I'm commenting only insofar as African travel is concerned. African travel can be made MUCH less difficult if you speak certain languages. French is spoken in Algeria, Morocco, Mauretania, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Benin, Niger, Chad, Rwanda, Burundi, CAR, Gabon, both Congos, [Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta], etc. Portuguese is spoken in Angola and Mozambique, and kiSwahili is spoken all over East Africa. If you're in NW Tanzania then English is USELESS, and if you don't speak kiSwahili you will battle to get around. Try NOT speaking French in central Africa and see how far you get, or try to get around central Angola without Portuguese if you really want a challenge. I have to strongly disagree with Lynn Guini who asserts "French is all but useless for travel". Lynn, not everybody travels for the same reason as you do. Some people travel for pleasure, some for business, some for adventure, some emigrate etc. I travel to the DRC for business, and speaking a bit of French is incredibly useful. She also says that "Spanish is far more useful". Apart from being similar to Portuguese, AFAIK Spanish is spoken only in Equatorial Guinea. Lynn, you sound like a person who likes to "tick off" countries countries like a bird-watcher "twitches" new species. Nothing at all wrong with that, but you must realise that not all travellers are doing the same. Not all travellers are tourists who stay at hotels where the staff speak some English Marc [ Marc : Johannesburg, South Africa (where French IS useless, except for showing off to your friends in swanky restaurants, and where English is USELESS in parts of Zululand and Eastern Cape.] ====================== Conquering FRENCH in 10 months ? ..How I did it ! An AMAZING story...a methodology that could work for anyone. Read at: http://tinylink.com/?IbZUMIf2sn Or, http://minilien.com/?9bHKc6BSC4 ......................... Bonne chance...bon courage !! |
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" French is spoken in Algeria, Morocco, Mauretania, Cameroon, Mali,
Senegal, Ivory Coast, Benin, Niger, Chad, Rwanda, Burundi, CAR, Gabon, both Congos, [Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta], etc." French is also spoken in TOGO ! J'ai oublié.....désolé ! |
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French- & English-speakers practice together
Please please send the eveleths over t ere and free the newsgroups !!
a écrit dans le message de news: ... .. [Message bilingue ~ Bilingual message] Rejoignez-nous! Come Join Us! French ^ojo^ English PROJET PILOTE : FORUM BILINGUE D'ENTRAIDE ET D'AMITIE POUR L'APPRENTISSAGE ET LA PRATIQUE DES LANGUES Members 800-plus / Membres plus de 800 EXPERIMENTAL MUTUAL-AID BILINGUAL FRIENDSHIP FORUM FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING & PRACTICE /__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/ S'inscrire sur - Join he http://minilien.com/?ZiQxcLUGmN After joining, please send your own brief intro statement to the group (name, job, studies, interests, ambitions)...as you wish. Après vous être inscrit, envoyez au groupe quelques mots sur vous (nom, boulot, études, passe-temps, ambitions)...comme vous voulez. /__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/ Communiquons par tous les moyens ! Let's communicate by all possible ways & means ! MESSAGERIE INSTANTANEE ~ INSTANT MESSENGER Yahoo, MSN, SKYPE, Google Talk, AIM, WebCam, Telephonie, etc. Invite fellow group members to talk LIVE Invitez d'autres membres à discuter EN DIRECT Introductions Présentations Vous trouverez les présentations que d'autres membres du forum ont envoyées à d'autres membres sur: Read the introductory statements of other group members at: http://minilien.com/?9VfkmdQ90q More info / Plus d'infos: http://minilien.com/?KhQ6gIGVPC Bienvenue ! Welcome ! /__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/__/ 0 \ _ \__\__\__\ __\__\__\_ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 0 / / / / / / / / Question: Do you need French for travel in Africa ? Marc Lurie wrote: .....I'm commenting only insofar as African travel is concerned. African travel can be made MUCH less difficult if you speak certain languages. French is spoken in Algeria, Morocco, Mauretania, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Benin, Niger, Chad, Rwanda, Burundi, CAR, Gabon, both Congos, [Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta], etc. Portuguese is spoken in Angola and Mozambique, and kiSwahili is spoken all over East Africa. If you're in NW Tanzania then English is USELESS, and if you don't speak kiSwahili you will battle to get around. Try NOT speaking French in central Africa and see how far you get, or try to get around central Angola without Portuguese if you really want a challenge. I have to strongly disagree with Lynn Guini who asserts "French is all but useless for travel". Lynn, not everybody travels for the same reason as you do. Some people travel for pleasure, some for business, some for adventure, some emigrate etc. I travel to the DRC for business, and speaking a bit of French is incredibly useful. She also says that "Spanish is far more useful". Apart from being similar to Portuguese, AFAIK Spanish is spoken only in Equatorial Guinea. Lynn, you sound like a person who likes to "tick off" countries countries like a bird-watcher "twitches" new species. Nothing at all wrong with that, but you must realise that not all travellers are doing the same. Not all travellers are tourists who stay at hotels where the staff speak some English Marc [ Marc : Johannesburg, South Africa (where French IS useless, except for showing off to your friends in swanky restaurants, and where English is USELESS in parts of Zululand and Eastern Cape.] ====================== Conquering FRENCH in 10 months ? ..How I did it ! An AMAZING story...a methodology that could work for anyone. Read at: http://tinylink.com/?IbZUMIf2sn Or, http://minilien.com/?9bHKc6BSC4 ......................... Bonne chance...bon courage !! |
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" French is spoken in Algeria, Morocco, Mauretania, Cameroon, Mali, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Benin, Niger, Chad, Rwanda, Burundi, CAR, Gabon, both Congos, [Burkina Faso, formerly Upper Volta], etc." France (Guadalupe, Martinique), Quebec. -- __________________________________________________ ______________ Un San Francisqueño en San Francisco. http://geocities.com/dancefest/ --- http://geocities.com/iconoc/ ICQ: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19098103 ------- IClast at Gmail com -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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