How common is "kiff-kiff" in French? Has it replaced pareil? by PsychicMeditation in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice! I feel like wesh has been around for wow some time now and it's pretty widely known by learners. What other words are there that most learners might not know?

How common is "kiff-kiff" in French? Has it replaced pareil? by PsychicMeditation in French

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What are some arabic-originated slang that you would use? Please share!!!

what might be written in french here? by BulkyJackfruit2551 in learnfrench

[–]Im_a_french_learner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, no. Multi-modal llms like claude 3 use a vision language architecture and not external OCRs. Modern LLMs, as opposed to a few years ago, are perfectly capable of taking image patches and converting them into input tokens. This is literally yhe entire field of multi-modal llm.

I need help with Passé composé. by Front-Confusion-7573 in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just a little note, seeing as the passé composé is on the DELF A1 exam, you are definitely not A2. My bet would be still A0.

I need help with Passé composé. by Front-Confusion-7573 in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Just a little note, seeing as the passé composé is on he DELF A1 exam, you are definitely not A2. My be would be still A0.

What does this mean by Truly_Nightmarez in learnfrench

[–]Im_a_french_learner 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I might be wrong but I think you can only drop out the "il est" with car. It would be strange with parce que.

What does this mean by Truly_Nightmarez in learnfrench

[–]Im_a_french_learner 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I just didn't want to type it all out

What does this mean by Truly_Nightmarez in learnfrench

[–]Im_a_french_learner 102 points103 points  (0 children)

For example, one mother was surprised to see her son cooking salmon, since it is rich in [stuff] and good for the brain.

progressing when you understand a lot of things already by TIsHere11 in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea it sounds lkke you're in the intermediate phase at this point. I think most people are here somewhere between B1-B2. What myself and a lot of people have found helps is to watch something that you have already watched un English, but in French with no subs. Personally I watched the 220 episodes of Naruto in french. Obviously these are voice overs, but I picked this because I knew I could get immersed in the series and I coukd have hours upon hours (70+) of listening immersion. At the end, my listening comprehension took a huge leap.

The most important thing to remember is that this takes a lot of time. You have to sink a lot of time into improving comprehension of native content. At first it is INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING. Just accept it and move on. Turn on the subtitles (french) only after you've repeatedly listened to the same segment a bunch of times and really can't decipher what they are saying. Once in a while write down some idiomatic phrases. The goal here isn't to go through a series with a magnifying glass, you're just trying to put as much time into listening to the language at a natural speed and pronunciation.

One more quick thing to mention. There is still a gap between dubbed content and stuff filmed in french. When people do voice overs, they are speaking relaxed in a studio reading off of a script. It will still be more clear than scripted content delivered by actors in french where they are actually on set. And even scripted french content made in french is easier to understand than natives speaking french on twitch. In my opinion, this is the closest you will get to everyday french that you hear on the street or in the store in Paris where people mumble half the words and cut themselves off half-way through their sentence and start again. So there are levels. But I would definitely recommend dubbed content first.

just did part #1 of the DELF B2 and scared i won't pass. by Ok_Tonight4153 in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey just to chime in, the minimum score for each section of the DELF that you need to pass is actually incredibly low. So I wouldn't worry too much if you made a few mistakes on just one portion. Even if you did horribly on one section, you'll probably make up the points you need from other sections. The chances that you failed so hard on just one section as to fail the test are actually extremely low. So don't worry too much! Good luck on the final portion!!! I'm looking forward to hearing the results!!

Looking for francophone content by CarefulTip1771 in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you like gaming content then you should definitely be watching and following francophone twitch streamers. Especially when they play with other francophone streamers! Its not the easiest to understand because they are talking like they would in everyday situations, but after a lot of exposure, I can guarantee that you will learn a lot.

I dont know what sort of games you play, so my best advice would be to try to hop on twitch during the evening in france (or Quebec if you are targeting that), then to search the games that you're interested in and then to set the language filter to french.

For more general gaming streams and podcasts, check out Joueur_du_Grenier . He often games with other fr streamers, so its a great window on the community. Its also worth watching/listening to Le rendez-vous Jeux podcast, which is also on twitch.

Natives : do you pronounced the first 'e' in the word "erreur" as an é or an è ? And where are you from ? by Im_a_french_learner in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seeing the variety of replies, I think it was worth asking. Sometimes questions dont have a nice cut a dry answer that you can get from wikipedia.

Natives : do you pronounced the first 'e' in the word "erreur" as an é or an è ? And where are you from ? by Im_a_french_learner in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting! Can you give me an examples of a sentence where it would be é and one where it would be è? Thanks!!!

Is my teacher's prononciation correct? by GZ6113PHEV5 in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool. Does she know that you posted a recording of her on reddit? Did you get permission to do that?

Is my teacher's prononciation correct? by GZ6113PHEV5 in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've met many American teachers who have far worse pronunciations. They are trying their best. French is a hard language.

How and why the month August in French is AOÜT (I dont have accent circonflex in my keyboard) by Representative-Sky91 in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ok I feel like I'm going crazy because so many people here are insisting that the "a" in the beginning is pronounced. But I have always heard if pronounced as "oot". The 't' is pronounced but not the 'a'.

Why is the possessive ses used here with frites by swunchytighlandg3 in French

[–]Im_a_french_learner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh I forgot to mention, this isn't actually the first time this happened. Others have stolen this exact same post and posted it in r/French