“Bonjour! Je m’appelle Gordon. Comment tu t’appelles?” Did you know what I have just said? That means “Hello! My name is Gordon. What is your name?” Today is just the 8th day of my 30-day challenge, and I already have the ability to introduce myself in French. I guess I am just really good at French!
Besides the basic introduction, I learned some sentences that were very useful for our daily lives. The first one is “C’est la vie”; We can understand this sentence as “That's life!” in English. My roommate told me that when your friend or someone who is in a bad mood or has an unlucky day, french people will say “C’est la vie” to them. This sentence not only could help them to calm down a little bit, but also it could be the most appropriate sentence to say when you are facing that kind of situation. Think about it, if one of your friend is in a bad mood and you didn't know the reason, can you say anything to comfort them? The answer is “No” because you don’t know what happened to them, so you have totally no idea how to start the conversation. I will suggest saying “C’est la vie” because it works all the time, and the person who you try to comfort will feel better. Look! You just learn how to speak French; Let's continue the lesson!
The next sentence is “Il est quelleheure?” It's mean “What time is it right now?” Although the meaning is "What time is it right now?" the way of sentence structure is very different. In the last blog post, I had mentioned that French grammar is very different than English. Every object has its own gender, so does time. If we translate “Il est quelleheure?” into English right away, it will become “He is which hour?” Didn't believe what I just said? What I just said is 100% true, and this is how French grammar works, believe or not. After we know how to say “What time is it?” we need to know how to answer back, don’t we? It is very easy to answer; We just need to say”Il est XX heure” (XX here represents the number). If we translate into English it will be “He is XX hour”. Kind of know how the French grammar works? I do, and sometime it is confusing, just like some grammar rules in English.
Today we learned three useful daily sentences in French: “C’est la vie”, “Il est quelleheure?”, and ”Il est XX heure”. All of them are very common sentences that people will use in their lives. Anyway, I can have a really short conversation with French people by using these sentences. Today is the 8th day, which means there are 22 more days to go. After this 30-day challenge, I can promise that you will have a new student in your class, and his name will be “Gol’don”!
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