----------------------------------- person Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:39 pm is French really useful?? ----------------------------------- when u go look for a job, how much does french help? ----------------------------------- Hikaru79 Tue Mar 01, 2005 9:58 pm ----------------------------------- If you're in Canada, and especially for social-related jobs, it's a HUGE asset. And anywhere else you go, knowing as many languages is a Good Thing. Even if the language itself is of little practical value, it says something about you personally, about your learning skills and stuff, if you can claim a working knowledge in two or three or four languages. At least... this is what my French teacher tells us :lol: :lol: :lol: ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Mar 01, 2005 10:04 pm ----------------------------------- Depends what you do and for whom. Tech support for the government owned organization would find French very benefiting. On the other hand, doing QA in private sector doesn't even require you to know proper English.. As for knowing more languages: I need to learn Mandrian just to get service at many places.. damn ----------------------------------- Martin Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:21 am ----------------------------------- Knowing extra languages can never hurt. You have to take the classes, so you might as well learn something from them. ----------------------------------- person Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:19 pm ----------------------------------- my french teacher tells us its pretty useful but wat ive learnt is that from grades 3-4, we learn the same thing twice. grade 5 new stuff 6-9 same thing really weird curriculum...dont u think? ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:31 pm ----------------------------------- This is what I've learnt: 1-3 same thing 4-8 same thing 9 different than 8 I just don't like learning the language. Pretty much all I can say is: Je m'appelle Gandalf. Bonjour. lol ----------------------------------- jonos Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:36 pm ----------------------------------- If it is useful now it soon will not be. They're going to separate soon anyways, so it won't matter if you can speak french or not. ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Wed Mar 02, 2005 6:51 pm ----------------------------------- They tried that before, remember? Who knows what will happen, but I don't really care because by then I will have learnt all the French which I would have learnt anyways :) . I guess it would make it simpler making a job if there was no French - but then again, there would probably be something else like Spanish or Chinese or something :lol: which would not make things any better. ----------------------------------- Mazer Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:20 pm ----------------------------------- "] I guess it would make it simpler making a job if there was no French - but then again, there would probably be something else like Spanish or Chinese or something :lol: which would not make things any better. Did that make sense to you? The big advantage to being fluent in French is that it's one of our official languages. Even if Quebec seperated (which I don't think is likely any time soon), it would probably still be an official language. Knowing other languages is a bonus only if you're expecting a majority of clients that speak that specific language (of if you work as an interpreter). ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Wed Mar 02, 2005 7:26 pm ----------------------------------- What I meant was that it might make it simpler to get a job if we didn't have French as an official Language. If that happened though, we would probably have to learn some other language instead. That would not be much better than the current situation. And, as you said, even if Quebec separated - French would still probably be our second official language. ----------------------------------- Blade Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:08 pm ----------------------------------- french is probably the most useful around government, tech support, or travel agency jobs ----------------------------------- Pickles Wed Mar 02, 2005 8:50 pm ----------------------------------- je ne sais pas, is all you need to know really ----------------------------------- person Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:11 pm ----------------------------------- so Pickles, wat does that mean?? funny thing is that i got a 89% average in French last year and this year....well lets just say im proud that im currently getting over 60% ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Mar 02, 2005 9:49 pm ----------------------------------- Je ne parle pas français bien, mais je sais employer l'Internet ----------------------------------- Catalyst Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:46 pm ----------------------------------- le français est une bonne langue, riche avec les formes de verbes interessantes. Tu ne dois pas le saver, mais de temps en temps c'est une avantage. Pour example, quand to veut lire ques-ce-que j'ai juste écrit. ----------------------------------- ssr Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:20 pm ----------------------------------- le français est une bonne langue, riche avec les formes de verbes interessantes. Tu ne dois pas le saver, mais de temps en temps c'est une avantage. Pour example, quand to veut lire ques-ce-que j'ai juste écrit. :shock: :shock: :eyes: :clap: I can understand it but would never be able to write aomething like this... ----------------------------------- Delos Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:11 am ----------------------------------- le français est une bonne langue, riche avec les formes de verbes interessantes. Tu ne dois pas le saver, mais de temps en temps c'est une avantage. Pour example, quand to veut lire ques-ce-que j'ai juste écrit. Bien-sûr mesieur (sp?). C'est evident que tu sait le français trés bien, ou tu as une dictionaire! Donc, dans mon opinion, le français c'est vraiment un advantage d'avoir, pour gagner plus de l'argent, pour parler avec les belle filles, pour crier aux gens qu'on n'aimes pas...et la même... Ah! Mon Dieu! C'était un trés long temps que j'avais parler en français...plus longs...plus longs... ----------------------------------- person Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:41 pm ----------------------------------- im assuming u people took french until gr11,gr12? i dont know but ill i know is: je n'aime pas francais and je ne peux pas parle dans francais is it even dans? i dont know ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:18 pm ----------------------------------- dans means in, but I don't know if you would use it in this case... Je n'aime pas parle ou ecris Francais. I suck at french, I forgot how to conjugate even normal verbs (as you can see). At best, I can read most words, speak in short, crappy sentences, and write horribly. Mon Dieu! ==> this is my favourite saying in French :) But with a little help 8) I can write longer sentences: Le français est très complexe à cause de toutes les exceptions. Personnellement, je préfère que l'anglais puisque c'est facile. Ceci le mot prochain sera compliqué. Nous sommes tous programmeurs ici. ----------------------------------- person Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:25 pm ----------------------------------- am i the only one that cant speak french at all? ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:26 pm ----------------------------------- Lol, didn't you take grade 9 french? ----------------------------------- ssr Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:27 pm ----------------------------------- dont worry, I donno either I can read them but really suck at listening :shock: tsk tsk ----------------------------------- Bacchus Thu Mar 03, 2005 6:42 pm ----------------------------------- dont worry person ur not the only one, i gave up french after gr 9, hated it started in gr 5 and they made me take it. would have rather learned spanish or italian. all i remember is: je ne parle pas francais Bonjour, parlez vouz anglais?