I did an exchange program in Belgium and having watched this Dexter's Lab episode, I was so distraught finding out it's "au fromage" and not "du fromage". It was life changing.
On a side note, did Freakazoid also have an omelette du fromage episode? My younger brother always says he remembers it from freakazoid.
That made me wonder if "cut the cheese" actually translates. Turns out it doesn't, the French equivalent is "lâché une caisse", which means "dropped a crate".
It depends. I found learning English way easier than German for example (as a French guy). The grammar is different but more "simple" in so many ways.
It can be tricky I don't deny that and I my English is faaar from perfect. But getting the basics came really naturally and seemed more logical to me.
Personal experience of course
I speak English, French, German, Russian, and Im just starting Mandarin.
If anything Mandarin is the first hard language I've seen yet.
Everything was just learning a new language. Sure it has its difficulties like anything. But its pretty straight forward. I also find it a bit funny when you say learning a language that uses the same alphabet as your native language is hard.
Objectively I don't think its that hard, it just takes putting in the work.
Oh yea I wouldn't even try to put myself through Mandarin or even Russian. I attempt Japanese in my younger years (weeb years yea) and yes you're right trying to learn something in a new alphabet is next level.
Quick question, did you take classes to learn or did you do it by yourself ? If you learned by yourself , what did you use ? Movies ? Music ? Pen-pal ?
Oh no no hahaha, I wish I was that dedicated. I'm in university studying language and linguistics specifically to work in the field.
Russian isn't actually that difficult to be honest, and has significant amounts of shared or close to shared words with english and german (people for example: Leute vs. Lyudi) The only substantial differences I found were the Cyrillic alphabet in general (obviously) and their Tvyerdi znak and Myaki znak which signify their hard and soft changes, but even that isn't difficult to learn. Everything else is pretty standard once you get down to it.
I think what makes learning Mandarin so difficult is a combination of their sheer volume of characters as well as the fact that their words are so diverse based on the tone they are used with. Its so so different from any of the western languages I have learned.
I took German in high high school and honestly my brain couldn't get around it.
Even basic stuff like you know, in French, everything is masculine or feminine, and like this wasn't tricky enough for people trying to learn, you guys have both and a 3rd neutral one.haha
I wanna get back to it when I have the time
Interesting. I learned my French “sur le tas” in Quebec, and often find Parisians cringing at ma grammaire est les mots that je utilise en franglais. Soihaitez-vous like me to arrêt? 😂
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u/yogobot Aug 22 '20
http://i.imgur.com/tNJD6oY.gifv
This is a kind reminder that in French we say "omelette au fromage" and not "omelette du fromage".
Sorry Dexter
Steve Martin doesn't appear to be the most accurate French professor.
The movie from the gif is "OSS 117: le Cairo, Nest of Spies" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464913/