If you're focusing on cognates, be sure to learn about false cognates, too.
Брат - brother
Дам - I'll give
Дата - Date
Фамилия - Surname
Граф - Count
Кабинет - Office
Магазин - Store
etc.
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If you're focusing on cognates, be sure to learn about false cognates, too.
Брат - brother
Дам - I'll give
Дата - Date
Фамилия - Surname
Граф - Count
Кабинет - Office
Магазин - Store
etc.
Магазин is a cognate if you are French though :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackMage
Isn't Кабинет from French as well.
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I've got something to say to France... It's kinda like a peace sign, but not quite.Quote:
Originally Posted by TATY
магазин = store but sounds like magazine
журнал = magazine but sounds like journal
газета = newspaper but sounds like gazette
дневник = journal pronounced dnevneek :o
A gazette is a newspaperQuote:
Originally Posted by kwatts59
A magazine is a type of journal (hence JOURNALism) (French Jour = day. Journal in French actually means Newspaper).
Магазин сomes from the French word Magasin, which means shop/store.
Two fingers facing forward is rude in Britain. Sort of like the middle finger but less offesive. The peace sign is the other way round.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackMage
Yes, I am trying to be rude to the French. YOU'LL NEVER GET MY BOWFINGERS, CHIRAC!Quote:
Originally Posted by TATY
LOL Tell me something. Do all Americans hate French or just some? All Americans I've known(and I've known a lot) have that general sort of attitude :) Same thing with the French ofcourse...Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackMage
office проще перевести как офис
"The English language is a beautiful thing in its simplicity. For example, when the English want to show boats we hold a thing called a 'Boat Show', and guess what we do. Nice and simple. Now picture that in French. 'l'exposition de bateaux et d'eau fait'. Sorry, We just don't have time for that, we've got Germans to defeat."
Micky and his mates
I dont hate french people. my orchestra teacher is french but I hate him because he sat me next to a stinky cellist, but not because he is french lol :P
Ans once you've met 10 french people and you hate every single one of them (not for being french, god forbid), you start thinking maybe it's because they are. :lol:
lol ^
Welcome aboard, Krysten!Quote:
Originally Posted by *Krysten*
Looks as if you
[quote=Dobry]Welcome aboard, Krysten!
Looks as if you
Would you like subtitles with that? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BlackMage
No, but a DNA sample is required as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by adoc
Joke as you like, I bet it's almost perfect. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by adoc
His DNA? I hope so. Otherwise he'd be a mutant, and then we would be obliged to kill him, like in X-Men... :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by BlackMage
I know a French guy online and although his DNA isn't perfect, he's an okay guy. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by adoc