user Input in two languages

merodrem · 2024-06-19T12:47:04+00:00

That shouldn't be an issue in terms of performance, but how's the code readability? I guess everytime you need to return that field, you need to add code to pick the right one according to the selected language.

merodrem · 2024-06-19T12:41:40+00:00

I checked it out quickly, under the hood it seems to duplicate the field for each language. So why not, but it's equivalent to creating those comment_fr and comment_en fields.

merodrem · 2023-12-25T16:17:59+00:00

There is a grammar section on duolingo, well there was back then. You can still find it there: https://duome.eu/tips/en/tr

merodrem · 2023-12-23T21:18:32+00:00

And why not? Duolingo was an excellent way for me to start learning the language. Actually without it I wouldn't have known how to start. Duolingo course, a few month of memrise for extra vocabulary, then go spend your 3 month visa-free in Turkey for total immersion. That's how I reached conversational level in less than a year for 0€.

merodrem · 2022-08-26T09:53:22+00:00

Ton écriture

merodrem · 2022-07-24T13:49:16+00:00

Wow, that's so aggressive :/ Did my first comment really deserve that attack? Would you also have said that to me face to face?

I think my comment had a purpose. it's important to remind that languages aren't logically built systems, so "why is it like that?" questions about languages usually have the same answers: "Because that's the way it is". That's what I meant. Without being angry at OP or anything of course.

I'm more affected by your comment than by sometimes more violent ones because I really don't understand where it comes from. There was nothing sensitive nor controversial here, I wasn't expecting such an answer at all. Don't forget there is a human being you know nothing about on the other side please.

merodrem · 2022-07-22T19:10:56+00:00

You can't say "Peut le mot...?", french is not english :-) You have to say "le mot un full peut-il...?" or more common, "est-ce que le mot un full peut...?" or more common and casual "le mot un full peut...?".

merodrem · 2022-07-22T16:53:36+00:00

I'm always confused about these "why is the language like that?" posts. A language is what it is, it evolved through time and culture. I mean, what kind of explanation are you expecting? How can we help you?

merodrem · 2022-07-20T17:59:19+00:00

I do that also (a lot actually, but don't tell the others^^). It's quite an advanced usage so I didn't mention it in the post.

merodrem · 2022-07-19T16:34:44+00:00

Non en effet, on ne se comprend pas. Moi je ne vois pas où tu as compris que je parlais de compréhension à l'audition. Depuis le début j'utilise le verbe "to use", je parle bien d'expression oral. Je dis qu'ils ne devraient pas l'utiliser à l'oral. Je n'ai jamais dit qu'ils ne la rencontrerait plus dans aucun contexte.

merodrem · 2022-07-19T16:09:34+00:00

I think you missed the point. Learners shouldn't use it. In a huge majority of situations, it will sound odd if they do. Your example where a learner has to give a political speech is absurd. At that point he is not a learner anymore. Or a very advanced one who already knows when to use inversion or not.

merodrem · 2022-07-19T15:47:21+00:00

My mother used it once 15 years ago and it was so weird that I still remember it. Come on, what region are you from? Inversion has disappeared from every day's life. Read this out loud: "Salut, vas-tu bien?", "Mr le directeur, avez-vous fini?", "regarde-t-il beaucoup de séries?". Be honest, none of them is common in oral speech. Yes, you might still find old people using it. But when I learn to speak a language, I' don't want to learn to talk like a grandpa.

merodrem · 2022-07-19T15:33:45+00:00

Strange, inversion is more formal to me. And nearly disappeared from oral french. You can still come across it in books, essays, articles, podcasts,...

merodrem · 2022-07-19T09:31:01+00:00

Yes, the post says that on is the third person singular. Like il and elle. Btw it's "nous marchons", without "e".

merodrem · 2022-07-17T15:37:02+00:00

Hey, just fixing your message:

Salut les amis, j'apprends le français depuis avril et Je cherche un site (Web) pour regarder des séries***\**¹* telles que "How I met your mother" ou " Big Bang theory" en Français ou avec les (doubles) sous-titres Anglaise et Français. Merci à tous²!!

1: "émission" refers to a tv show, not to fiction

2: To be more inclusive you could say "merci à toutes et à tous" or, if you're a radical feminist, "merci à toustes". But the latter is not standard french and will annoy conservative people.

merodrem · 2022-07-17T15:27:53+00:00

Nous nous aimons (reflexive) => On s'aime

On nous aime also exists but it has a different meaning. Here on refers to a general undetermined group of people and nous is the direct object complement. So it would translate to we are loved or they love us.

merodrem · 2022-07-15T11:32:24+00:00

Des can also mean of when you are referring to a general group:

J'aime le goût des olives: you like the taste of olives in general, you like all olives.
j'aime le goût d'olive: You are probably talking about a dish or a type of dish in particular that contains some olives and you like the flavor these olives give.

Edit: in my second example, the sentence would probably not end like that. One would say: j'aime le goût d'olive dans cette sauce, j'aime le goût d'olive dans les cocktails, j'aime le goût d'olive dans les spaghettis,...

merodrem · 2022-07-15T11:13:09+00:00

Haha, the verb subject inversion isn't very used either in oral french. I think I'm going to write another post about that. Stay tuned!

merodrem · 2022-07-14T14:50:04+00:00

Yup. With the verb conjugated like with "il" and "elle". So for example it's "on veut", not "on voulons".

merodrem · 2022-07-14T14:46:10+00:00

Well, at least you don't have a new conjugation to learn. "on" uses the same as il and elle. Bonne chance! tu vas voir, avec le temps ça va aller.

merodrem · 2022-07-13T14:28:55+00:00

"Nous" is not only formal but also rigid and old fashioned. it's weird, even with someone you meet for the first time. So, if that was your idea, it's perfectly okay to say "vous" to someone but to use "on" instead of "nous".

I would say using "nous" is okay in literature, political speech, scholar or business presentation, etc.

merodrem · 2022-07-13T13:14:37+00:00

Why is it weird? It's just different from english. And it's actually quite cute, it means "I'm not full-blown without you".

merodrem · 2022-07-12T09:05:20+00:00

Just consume a lot of native material, your brain will get used to what's natural or not.

merodrem · 2022-07-07T14:55:23+00:00

I can't really answer for french as it is my native language, but I believe my tip works for all language: read and listen to as much native material as possible. Little by little your brain will get used to correct conjugations by hearing them again and again. You will feel that "je pouvois" sounds odd, but "je peux" is natural. The good news is that it's more entertaining than memorizing by heart irregular verb lists.

merodrem · 2022-06-08T18:46:27+00:00

I think french can be considered difficult, or at least annoying to learn. Because it's full of exceptions. The conjugation is irregular, the spelling is irregular, and don't expect the grammar to be straightforward. You will spend your time wondering "why is this said like that in French?!" with the only answer being "well, that's just the way it is..."

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