|
THE SMEGGER
http://20six.co.uk/thesmegger
powered by
20six.co.uk
|
FRENCH : PRACTICAL STUFF
Entente Cordiale – The Centenary
The Entente Cordiale was a colonial-era agreement signed by the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Lansdowne, and the French Ambassador, Paul Cambon, in London on 8 April 1904 with the aim of settling long-standing disputes between the UK and France in countries such as Morocco, Egypt, Siam, Madagascar, the New Hebrides, West and Central Africa and Newfoundland. But it had a wider significance in that it also represented a shift from a history overshadowed by conflict and rivalry to a sustained era of rapprochement and alliance. For example, the agreements were crucial in paving the way for Franco-British diplomatic and military cooperation in the lead-up to World War One.
SMEG'S COMMENT ( Which means that we've promised not to kill one other, openely )
Entente Cordiale – The Centenary INFO
Ok more info on the parade they had here with the horse guards and the red arrows when i find some decent pics..........................bye for now
Got to work argh...........................................................lol
|
|
|
IF YOUR THINKING ABOUT COMING TO FRANCE PREPARE
Hi , just thinking of all the things they asked me when i came over....
Ok what you will need is tax returns of what you earnt when in England, payslips at least if you plan on working over here. The work on last years earnings.
Insurance certificate for your car insurance, if you go two years without driving over here they will consider you a young driver , which is alot more expensive believe me. Some insurance companies like AXA have compatibilities with England so are less work than others. This you need to find out before hand.
You will need birth certificates too, then when you get here, tranlated in french by someone qualified to do so, by the authorities that is......
If you come over and are not buying and wish to rent they will want someone to vouch for you , in case of financial difficulties...;
Thats all for now bye......................;
|
|
|
COMING TO FRANCE
I think that as i had an E mail from someone that was surfing the web , and found my site, lucky guy eh?. Hes interested in moving to France to live and looking at my site, i can see that lessons in french are not enough and i need to give advice on when you get here which papers to have or fill out. So all this i'll have to look up. The good think about Bordeaux is that it does have an embassy here .
So thanks to Matt, i'll be getting some serious work done for a change here ok....................
Let me know what you think guys..............
Thx for listerning byeeeeeeeeeee
|
|
|
YOU AND ER ...YOU
One of the things about the french is they have two versions of you, which can be helpful, and completely stupid at the same time from a english point of view anyway..
Tu someone you know
Vous impersonel and rather polite
Helpful, why because it keeps people in the place , you use vous, especially if someone is getting to freindely, and you don't want them too, and of course with your boss,people highly placed.
|
|
|
STARTING OUT
The french think that : the English eat to live and that the French live to eat, looking just at this saying you can see how far apart our cultures are?.
Its true that the first six months of my stay in France i thought that the French we're, how can i say this lightly, completely and utterly mad .
I had a constant headache from just trying to understand, well ,why did i stay, i like a challenge or just plain stupid, i'll let my readers make thier own minds up i think ( just don't call me stupid to my face ok).
Number one survival technic you learn in France is, try to speak french, they will make an effort for anybody that tries, they will not however make an effort for anyone that speaks just English ( beware).
hey you shout i can't speak French, how can i make an effort, and when i speak french that i know they will talk to me in french afterward and i won't understand anything oh so sad isn't it. My advice is don't come over then lol. No seriously , just a few phrases is enough you start of in french then you say (in french of course) that sorry i can't speak french very well, or slow down. If you don't understand after all that they will make a serious effort to speak your language( not including brummie,scouser, or geordie, no one outside of England has ever mastered those languages , sometimes not even the english themselves just joking ).
Number Two is don't translate into english to french or vice versa, your wasting your time its too slow. How then, well think of it like another way of saying a sentence , with have a lot of slang in England so think of it like this perhaps "i'm going to go to the toilet", or " gotto to piss " perhaps not very good example but you have several ways of saying the same thing or idea, think of it like that ok, write and tell me how many different sentences there are for going to toilet if you like, would be interesting to find out how many lol.
Theres an enourmous amount of slang in french too, with over twenty something words to say "money", so little by little you'll get there, think i should charge for these lessons?..........
bye for now
|
|
|
FIVE WAYS TO UPSET THE FRENCH : BEWARE
These are some sentences/things that offend them :
1 you have wine in France ???????? ( now thats got to hurt )
2 Fois gras its just paté isn't it ? ( there you will see a frenchmans/woman head slowly turn red and explode ow)
3 Speak to them only in english no attempt at french ( this really annoys them , your in their country after all make an effort)
4 So , where are the kings and queens then? (where the ordinary people stood tall and kings and queens, could'nt complain of headache afterward)
5 English sons/daughters in law ( i know just joking, just in case they look at my site that is lol)
Like to see an English top five things that upset us?????? write now ok
thx for listerning
bye
|
|
|
|
THE SMEGGER