Brad.. can we have a new forum heading?

[HibyPrime]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

Are you in this blue area?

Naw, just south of it in Toronto as Radio said. link

Originally Posted by RadioactiveMan

Hiby, what about in Manitoba? I'm only asking since I'm not sure, but aren't there still French-speaking Métis there?

There are French speakers all over Canada, but very few are fluent and fewer still practice french outside of courses and things of the like.

There should probably be one little blue dot in each province to account for them, but I just didn't think that deepy when I made the little pic, lol.

[rwd716]

Originally Posted by aFrenchie

Exactly. She says it 3 times in a row: 1:20 (indeed) then at 1:31 and 1:43

Then, at 2:11 she says O.K. Lol, I guess youFrenchies will take some getting used to.

BTW, why do usEnglish even say O.K.?

[HibyPrime]

Originally Posted by rwd716

Then, at 2:11 she says O.K. Lol, I guess youFrenchies will take some getting used to.

BTW, why do usEnglish even say O.K.?

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexper...wordorigins/ok

meGoogled

[Twitch]

I would love to hear Alizée say 'Tiguidou!' I had a French girlfriend from Québec who used it all the time. I thought it was adorable. It's used by some speakers of Québec French to mean 'ok!' instead of 'd'accord!'

[aFrenchie]

Originally Posted by rwd716

Then, at 2:11 she says O.K. Lol, I guess youFrenchies will take some getting used to.

It's not new! We (occasionally) use "ok" since decades already and it's even in French dictionaries now . But "d'accord" remains more natural and way more used of course.

[Twitch]

Sorry to bump this back up, but for those of you with mediocre French skills who want a free online spelling and grammer checker can try this one designed by the University of Alberta to help out their students who were learning French. It's faster than using a word processor for forums and stuff. The interface can be set to English or French.

It also has all you accented vowels so you just have to click on the one you want if you don't know how to type it.

[aFrenchie]

Originally Posted by Twitch

I just took a look and it looks great! I'll test it more to see if it's very efficient.

[Twitch]

I like it, only thing is because they designed it to help you learn French it doesn't automatically fix your mistakes, explains what is wrong and then you have to fix them yourself. So not as efficient as having everything corrected automatically but really great in helping you learn. And they based on French not Québecois so it's more appropriate for formal writing, leaving the colourful nature of Québecois for everyday conversation.

Edit: They do welcome comments for improvements if you find anything wrong with it.

[aFrenchie]

I've made some tests and of course it can't point all grammar and conjugation errors. Too complex for a software, at least nowadays. They should have a semantic engine and that should be hard/huge to develop...