Nov 13, Samedi

çava people :) I'm starting my new semester on Lundi(Monday), day after demain(tomorrow)--Dimache(Sunday).

It sounds so weird with english and français together, doet :p I know!! Super lack of vocabulary! Excuse-moi, si'l tu plaît /si-tu-play/ (excuse me, please) or it can be in excusez-moi, si'l vous plaît /si-wu-play/, excuse with a extra 'Z' is excuse in respected form, and vous is you in respected form while tu is you in a friendly manner.

I feel so number-ed today :p Just got my new numéro(number;/numeho/) for moi portable téléphone--BB. Cell phone, mobile phone, or aka hand phone is known as portable téléphone in d F language--le français. Where portable doesn't sounds like our english portable, it's something like /pok-ta-bleo/.

Numéro:

un - 1 /aun/
deux - 2 /do/
trois - 3 /tua/
quatro - 4 /kato/
cinq - 5 /sign/
six - 6 /sis/
sept - 7 /set/
huit - 8 /wit/
neuf - 9 /nerve/
dix - 10 /disc/
onze - 11 /onze/
douze - 12 /du-ze/
treize - 13 /the-ze/
quatorze - 14 /kato-ze/
quinze - 15 /can-ze/
seize - 16 /say-ze/
dix-sept - 17
dix-huit - 18
dix-neuf - 19
vingt - 20 /vang/

21, 31, 41... onwards are a bit different.
21 - vingt et un /vang-teh-aun/...

trente - 30 /thonte/
quarante -40 /kahont/
cinquante - 50 /sign-kont/
soixante - 60 /sua-song/

Above 70 made me feel that French is really lazy in creating new words :p

soixante-dix - 70 ; which is like 60+10
soixante et onze - 71 ; 60 + 11
soixante-treize - 73 ; 60 + 13

quatre-vingts - 80 ; 4 x 20
quatre-vingts-un - 81 ; 4 x 20 + 1

quatre-vingt-dix -90 ; 4 x 20 + 10

cent - 100

mille - 1000

Quand est ton anniversaire? (When is your birthday)
Mon anniversaire est le vingt Novembre mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-dix.
(my birthday is on 20, Nov, 1990...ps:which is next week, weee :)

Bon weekend people :)


signing off,
2.46pm



La vie en rose, a song for your weekend, may u have a romantic weekend.

Oct 20, Mercredi

Have not been updating due to final examination that thankgodly just ended last week *grin* last Wednesday to be precise.

Mercredi is Wed in french and it sounds like /meh-ker-dee/.

Most of my friends' birthday falls on the Octobre month.

Wish you guys joyeux anniversaire (happy birthday).

Anne's 20th birthday. Elle a vingt ans. She is 20(vingt) years old, vingt sounds like /vang/ while elle is she. When vingt ans is put together and it'll sounds like /vangtong/, connected.

From left, Kate, Anne-the birthday diva, Gigi, Meg, me & Vni.
Wives forever ♥

Anson's 21st. Il a vingt et un ans. He is 21(vingt et un) years old, vingt et un sounds like /vang-teh-un/.

From gauche(left), femme (ladies which pronounced as /fam/) Gigi, me, Kate, Anne & Meg.
Homme (men) are Heng and Anson.

Anson with a red scarlet flushed tomato-ified face. Viola(there you go /vala/), may you find joy and excitement in your new sexy blanc(white) Lancer.

French is a very beautiful language and it's like singing when we pronounce a sentence or phrase as one word is read connected to each another just like singing.

Too bad I can't form sentences yet cause lack of vocabulary :'(

Do really hope I can make beautiful sentence in the near coming future.



Signing off, 2.47pm.

Oct 3rd, Sun

Attended my very 1st French [français] class on Friday evening. I really thought Momoko and I will laugh very hard in class but both of us were too stress to do so.

French is ain't easy [facile]. Ain't easy. Particularly the pronunciation part, it's slaughtering me (stress much).

Alliance Français, Lorong Gurney that looks like an old folk home.

Alike?

Behind of the building and parking lots.

The hall where the "old folks" socialize.

Our prescribed text and work book for beginners. Nicely wrapped ♥

Fortune is by our side, our teacher is a sweet appealing young lady--Ms[Mlle] Sandrine. She is a Malaysian but is eloquent in french, the way she speaks made me fall in love with her already.

She started the class by making all of us introduced ourselves and saying some very basic greetings in french.

What is your name?
Comment tu t'appelles? -informal
Comment vous vous appelez? -formal

My name is Yan, how about you?
Je m'appelle Yan, et toi? - informal
Je m'appelle Yan, et vous? -formal
Toi is used when you are more familiar with that person or to show friendliness while vous is used to show respects, ie to the elders or superior. The toi sounds like /tua/ and vous sounds like /wu/.

Nice to meet you.
Enchante for male and enchantee for female, same pronunciation.

Bonjour --good day, morning, it can also be used in the evening if you meet the person for the first time (I bet most of you know).

Bonsoir --good evening.

Bonne nuit --night.

Bonne soiree --have a nice evening. It is pronounce in something like /bon suah he/.

Bonne journee --have a nice day. It can be said when you are leaving.

How are you?
Comment ça va?
Vous allez bien?
The ç that comes in a tail is kinda pronounce as /s/.

ça va bien, merci beaucoup. --Fine, thank you.

Oui --Yes sounds like /we/

Non --No

facile --easy

tres bien--very good

Monsieur, M. --Mister

Madame, Mme --Madam

Madamoiselle, Mlle --Miss, Lady

d'accord --Ok. Sounds like /dah coh/

a demain --see you tomorrow

a bientot --see you soom

au revoir --bye /ou he vuah/ Their "r" kinda sounds like the deep husky trembling "h" from your throat, very difficult to pronounce. VERY. It's like when you wanted to gurgle water and play it with your throat.

Some of the very basic phrases or words that we use in our daily life.

Besides, we learnt the pronunciation of the ABC to Z and 123 to 16. 16!!! Yes, 16!! Very kindergarten, I know. And I barely can remember all.

People, feel free to let me know if I have made a mistake above. I know it can all be google translated (advantage of modern technology 101), but I just wana write it down, as a revision :)

Hope you have a good weekend.
Bon weekend.



signing off, 10.22pm.

Oct 1st, Fri

First post : -

Hi, I'm Yan Sum(Je m'appelle Yan Sum), and I'm a blog reader(stalker), I read Chiara's http://www.theblondesalad.com, Audrey's http://www.audreylim.com, Xiaxue's, my cousin Momoko's http://momoko-sum.blogspot.com and more. I do frequently stroll from blog to blog whenever I'm free; or not, sometimes.

Yes, I do admit, I love looking at pretty ladies, plastic or not, over photoshoped or not, I don't really care, as long as they are pretty in photos :D Sounds like a pervert here, I know.

I used to blog in yanplus.blogspot but no longer because I'm reluctant to update due to lazyness of mine.

The main reason for me to blog again is I wanted to make theflanguage.blospot as my training ground to practice the language. Obviously, as you can see, not many people speak French in the country, out of ten, maybe none, unlike the more popular one like Japanese. The only person that I can speak to will be Momoko(sigh) and the place that I'll use the language most will be in class(sigh).

Besides, I do really want to read the short note Mr Jean(pronounced as John) wrote for me in year 2008 when I worked as his translator in an exhibition. Of course I'm not translating French, pretty easy job, all I need to do is to translate English to Mandarine, some Chinese visitors from China might not understand English.


I do recognize a few word that Mr Jean taught me during our long boring working hours. Ennuyeux = boring ,C'est ennuyeux = it's boring, A bientor = see you soon.

Here are some of the simple words that he taught me. And I'm still keeping the hotel note that he wrote on.


Can't wait for my very first F language class later in the evening :D

Feeling very nervous and excited now. I'm afraid that I'll lose my control and keep laughing in class. Momoko, will we?



Signing off, 1.31am.