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askerian ([personal profile] askerian) wrote2005-11-17 06:06 am
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it's amazing the kind of emails I get just because i'm french. So, yeah.

1) I assure you, if I can write fanfiction and you don't notice until you read my profile, it means that you do NOT need to dumb down your feedback for me. I'm 24, kiddy-talk sounds just a leeeetle bit patronizing here. It is also not necessary to ask me if I understand what you mean every two lines. (though it's still easier to read at a ten-year-old level than to translate OMGGRAMERWHUT and netspeak.)

2)Bilingual means that I actually UNDERSTAND BOTH. I swear it does. =__= So, no, you do not need to translate every sentence in your email. Write in either one -- I swear I didn't forget THAT much french. (yet.)

3)No, I will not help you with your homework.

4)"Is (...) really different in France?" How should I know? I've never left France once in my life, except for very short trips that skimmed Switzerland and Spain borders. As for my personal, social-and-politics-and-all-that opinions -- I'm a hermit. I don't know if other people share my views IRL. Internet doesn't count; it's easy to surround yourself with like-minded individuals.

5)On that note, I haven't written anything in french for over two years and I don't get involved in the french naruto and GW fandoms because 1) they're too small and 2)... they're too small. Also I don't know enough people there to make it worth it. *lazy, y0* So, uh -- comparison between the english and french fandoms? not a clue. XD

6)No, i'm not speshul just because i'm French. I assure you, there are lots of french people who aren't cool at all. My coolness is entirely personal. ;p

On that note, it was surprising!! (except not) that when I met [livejournal.com profile] zania and her sister, they looked like they could have been french. Except, you know, they were from Texas or something. *molestmolest* I do not look "french", there is no "french race". I look like a caucasian girl, and when you see me, that's all you can tell -- that i'm neither black nor asian nor arab nor Indin nor... you get the point. I do not look Swedish or Italian -- France is just a random melting pot of whiteness. I could walk past you in the street anywhere in the States and until I talk, I garantee you won't know. (of course the second I talk it's gonna be blindingly obvious because OMG OWW the accent. I can't get rid of that accent. People tell me a french accent is sexy, but I find it embarrassing -- especially when I know how to spell a word perfectly and I can't remember how the hell you pronounce it. And what the hell is it with that "TH" sound?? argh. ...Ah well. :p)

So. I doubt the reminder is necessary to you people, but I just felt like sharing. Because, really, WTF. It's amazing the kind of emails I get sometimes. XD
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[personal profile] qem_chibati 2005-11-17 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Heh. It is really WTF. I personally think you can write English much better than some of the people for whom its there first language.

*sigh* I do admit I take tiny little lessons in french when lurking around your journal cause every now and then there is a french comment and I always try to analyse it or look up words I don't know... Erm hi there!

And I do want to try and read the fanfiction you have posted in french once exams are over.

... But thats cause I'm a total dork, who thinks that studying french in a fandomy kind of way might actually be kind of fun. v.V;

... And I'm trying to become more comfortable with the language since maybe it might help me understand my french speaking relatives a bit better. And work out when they are actually talking about me. o.o;

I do know that there is a french bleach forum though that has 21971 members as a random point of trivia. o.o;
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[personal profile] qem_chibati 2005-11-17 11:03 am (UTC)(link)
Argh. And as you can see your much better at grammar than I am. v.V;
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[personal profile] qem_chibati 2005-11-18 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
LOL that is cool!

Ah yes. Its amazing the power of yaoi and the way that it compels people. ^_^' I mean, those muscular bodies, sexy defiance, and.... *Qem's brain when that a way*



Really? That would be awesome, though - I would be really, really annoying if I tried to respond in French.

Reading-wise I'm fairly fluent - in a slow to the point where people want to beat me over the head with a hammer, kind of way.

But writting. *Shudders* I'm working on it, (In a slow kind of way) but I'm just not comfortable with it - at all -it takes forever to remember vocabulary, where there's meant to be extra letters, if I have the grammar right...

*head desks* Its hard enough trying to make myself coherrant in English - I know my writting style is weird.

It probably drive you nuts, since its all stilted. @.@;

*shrugs* I just took the random french comments as a sort of vague reminder. I tend to be kind of forgetful when it comes to studying french, since its not a priority in my life at this moment. But I know that if you want to learn a language properly you have to keep at it, other wise... Bah.
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[personal profile] qem_chibati 2005-11-18 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah thankyou!

I know that there is a learning curve when it comes to learning a language, but I'd rather try to build up my own skill and comfortability with the language before really going out and subjecting people to the horrors that is me. ^_^;;;

But I'm going to try and leave feedback in french when I set about reading your french stories, (Just exams, first... I'm really bad when it comes to procrastinating so trying to keep focused - failing miserably but still... *g* ) since I give horrible oneliner reviews on ff.net anyway most of the time. @.@;

XD I guess that says a lot about the sort of effect fandom has had on you.

I know my uncle finds it a lot more comfortable to type up official documents in English than in French (he works at an airport in a bilingual country) - but he prefers to speak in French than English.