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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]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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
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
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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*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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Long story short, my english teachers all sucked until I was 17, and then I discovered the net and that i was not the only one in the world to think that Kurama and Hiei had a little... something going on. ALAS! all the yummy stories were in english.
The rest can be summarized in one sentence.
"The power of Yaoi compels you."
So yeah, I was compelled long and hard, and here I am. XD
*makes sweet, sweet love to her pocket dictionary, still with her after six long years*
if i knew your level of fluency, i could reply to you in french, if you want -- but when i reply to french friends we often are awfully slangy, so you're not going to get a lot of what i tell them.
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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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Je comprends très bien ce que tu veux dire. Je crois bien que ca m'a pris des mois à lire (ou plutôt patiamment déchiffrer) des fics anglais avant que j'aie assez de confiance en moi pour écrire en anglais -- et encore, juste du feedback, pas des fics. Et mes premières traductions étaient horribles. XD je ne veux même pas les relire maintenant, l'idée me fait peur. XDD
(and i'm gonna shift back into englihs because, god, how dit aht happen? for me by now typing in english is more natural than in french. *snicker*)
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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.