[GillParticipant]

Nothing whatsoever to do with mm but if you read this before 9.45am please cross your fingers that I don't make a complete idiot of myself.

I am going back to French classes. Stephen and I both did them for a while and Stephen dropped out fairly quickly (His excuse was South East London Buiilder struggles with English. My reply was, and still is, that he has a far wider vocabulary than I do and should have carried on and worked a bit harder learn to put that vocabulary into French)

I stopped going to classes when Stephen got ill. Stephen has tried for ages to get me doing something away from him. I stopped work when he got ill and I am sure that I drive him mad sometimes always being here.

When I booked the class I was lucky?? enough to speak to the tutor who just happened to pick up the phone. She told me I should attend an IMPROVERS course. IMPROVE I can't remember a B***dy word of French right now
Bonsoir Gillxxx

[mhnevillParticipant]

Bonjour Gill! (Just!)

Hope the Improvers Class is a happy group and you have lots of fun.

Mavis x

[MinParticipant]

You can do it Gill, if you can cope with a Builder with mm you can do the classes. More imprtantly give you each a break from one another and the mm. It takes over you life insidiously even though you dont 'have' it.
To get away and not mention it will be brill
good luck
Min

[MariParticipant]

Dear Gill,

I hope you had a great time at your class, we will be expecting posts in French from you now!

Love Mari x

[GillParticipant]

Bonjour Mavis, Min, Mari et al. L'ecole et tres bien.

I had a wonderful time, felt very comfortable and came back on a great high. Everyone there seems to be on the same sort of level so I don't feel a complete idiot.

I was so nervous that Stephen dropped me off and picked me up. (I have driven for over 40 years but could not even think how to get to the college (have already attended at least 2 classes there!!!)

I am looking forward to next week and would try my French out on here but know that Lorraine (who lives in France) would catch me out as being hopeless:-)

Thank you all for your good wishes.

You are so right Min. Stephen said that, in the nicest possible way, it was good to have a couple of hours to himself and I came back full of the people I had met and the lesson. I suggested that he attended classes in hanging up his clothes, resisiting drying his hands on the towels while they are still covered in grubby soap suds and just annoying me in general:-)

None of which I want to change but Please Don't Tell Him:-)

[eveParticipant]

Hi Gill
deux vin rouge ,s'il vous plait.

That,s the important one Eve

[zasrsParticipant]

Hi Gill and Eve

Une grande rose s'il vous plait.
Cannot spell anything else
well done Gill enjoy
sarah xx

[lorraineyParticipant]

Hi Gill and everyone,

Well done for going to your class, i'm pleased you enjoyed it 🙂
I can guarantee Gill that you will be teaching me lol! I've been here 7yrs now but still only 'get by' with my french….jeez that's really bad isn't it? :-S I went to french lessons for 3yrs and was doing ok, then the dreaded MM decided to join me and put paid to my learning french :-/
I've forgotten most of what I learnt but can still order une grande vin blanc et une grande biere 😉 As Eve says, that's what's important! 😀 Hehe!!

Good luck with it Gill, and have fun learning!

love n hugs Lorraine xxxx

[eveParticipant]

Hi Everyone
Dos vinho tinto, por favor!
dos vino tinto, por favor
deux vin rouge,s'il vous plait.
two red plonk, cobber!

Hehehe,Portuguese Spanish French and Australian you have to get your priorities right LOL
I forgot to tell you I am deaf,I wear hearing aids,so it,s impossibly for me to learn any new language,Good luck with french,I find french people very friendly,I talk to them all the time,and Slim translates !!it,s making the effort that they appreciate love Eve

[BADGERParticipant]

Hi eve

you have got it about right except you need to add bread and cheese
chesa bacadilla sorry about the spelling

Cheers love Jo xx8-)

[BADGERParticipant]

Hi Gill

good luck with the course I am sure you will soon get into the seing of things:-)
Love Jo;-)

[brochoParticipant]

Hi Gill glad you enjoyed your course sounds like a lot of fun. I never was any good at spoken french but I can read it ok still Certain words from my schooldays stick in my head, m–de! for example I wonder if they will allow that one on here–haha Love Bridget x the answer was not allowed!

[ElizellenParticipant]

Goodness me, I would not have imagined the swearing censor was a poly-linguist!

Does anyone know any other foreign swear words to test? Could be useful to have an arsenal of sweary words that could slip past the software sometimes 😉

[GillParticipant]

How lovely to find that this site is multilingual. I do realise that the swearing censor is a built in part of the site but I have been giggling by imagining a very tired, crotchety, elderly lady with a huge pile of grey hair on top of her head, pencils sticking out of this bird's nest of hair striking words out on her computer screen.

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