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.