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  • French is a language of love. You can start learning it.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Chortling here ............ maybe @Obelixx would like to comment  ;)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    The ‘love’ bit curiously bypassed all my French teachers at school.
    Rutland, England
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    edited April 2021
    "Je t'aime" and a lot of heavy breathing if l recall correctly  <3😳
    https://youtu.be/k3Fa4lOQfbA
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    In my experience, @Dovefromabove, French is language where you can use many words and convoluted sentence structures to say what a fluent English speaker can say in a single, simple, direct sentence.  I learned that when I was "interpreting" for our local bourgmestres and other officials at Twinning ceremonies.  3 minutes for them.  30 seconds for me to get across the essentials.

       
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We're able to be so succinct because we've taken so many words from other languages ... interesting that 'succinct' is similar in Old French, Middle English and Latin 😉

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    How kind of the OP to suggest such an interesting topic on his first post.😏
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    ........and then no activity from the OP!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes @Dovefromabove but the main point is that English has a huge vocabulary that can be very precise and clear whereas French borrows less and evolves more slowly and it's natural to waffle and prevaricate and go round the houses. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    English speakers are like magpies. We will take a nice sparkly new word or way of saying something until something more sparkly comes along. When we get bored with it we store it away in case we might need it later.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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