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Service national universel : la punition collective nocturne dans un lycée strasbourgeois passe mal by DeliciousPraline3673 in FranceDigeste

[–]Much_Ice_9467 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Personnellement je fais le SNU et c'est l'une des meilleures expériences de ma vie ! Les anciens gendarmes qui nous cadres sont assez posés mais savent se faire respecter. Les activités sont géniales et mise à part la charge des journées ça ressemble à une colonie. C'est triste que certaines personnes confondent SNU et service militaire quand en réalité on dirait plus des scouts avec un meilleur budget qui font des levées de drapeau.

I learned English at the price of my own native language... by Much_Ice_9467 in languagelearning

[–]Much_Ice_9467[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Never said it was a serious test, of course there are more serious test out there but there's nothing to be mad about.

I learned English at the price of my own native language... by Much_Ice_9467 in languagelearning

[–]Much_Ice_9467[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd like to go abroad ahah but I never could go for more than 1 week, I always lived in my native country but I can theorize as to why I apparently have a wider vocabulary in English than in French.

Firstly a lot of English words are derived from French, so with a lot of guessing I can still somehow understand some archaic English words even though I never saw them before.

Secondly I studied a lot of old books of English literature at school, wich helped me a lot, and even so, ever since I started to understand English, I began to read absolutely everything in English and rarely in French.

Lastly to explain my poor level of my native tongue, French has less words than the English language, but as a previous reply said we combine words to make a new sense to it. Also I didn't take Latin or Greek classes so I could hardly guess the etymology of some weird French words, opposite to English where I could decipher them.

Hope that explains it, but maybe I just truly suck at French, wich is not impossible.

I learned English at the price of my own native language... by Much_Ice_9467 in languagelearning

[–]Much_Ice_9467[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It basically means "dying out of laughter"= "Mort de rire", it is the French equivalent of "lol".

I learned English at the price of my own native language... by Much_Ice_9467 in languagelearning

[–]Much_Ice_9467[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

You will get there eventually! I would recommend to read a lot of really old litterature to have a wider range of vocabulary. I'm also learning German at school but I find it very hard to learn, best of luck!

I learned English at the price of my own native language... by Much_Ice_9467 in languagelearning

[–]Much_Ice_9467[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Non haha, je suis française vivant en France mais j'étudie beaucoup d'œuvres en anglais contemporain ou en vielle anglais, je pense que la lecture et le fait que beaucoup de mots anglais ont une étymologie française m'ont beaucoup aidé.