what about freud?

so my french teacher wins. he's this little old dude who likes to embarrass everyone. all the time.


in french, 'visiter' doesn't mean 'to visit' unless it's a place. if you say 'je visite ma mere' it means you are frisking your mother for hidden drugs or firearms. not cool. lol. unless you say 'rend visiter' in which case, you are paying someone a visit. i think that's how it goes. ANYWAY.

so 'cold' en francais is 'froid'. it's pronounced 'fhwah'. kind of. so someone said "il fait froid" but they pronounced it funny and my teacher was like, "what about Freud?" for the win!

also, when negating a sentence, you generally have to add the article 'de'. for example:
question:
Y a t-il un crocodile dans le toilette? (is there a crocodile in the bathroom?)

at first the general answer given in my class was "no il n'y a pas un crocodile dans le toilette".

m. martin: tres bizarre! then how many crocodiles are there?

that means "no there isn't ONE crocodile in the bathroom".

correct answer being:
Il n'y a pas de crocodile dans le toilette.




french class is hard but fun.


.kate.

i still have no voice. :(