Lesson Comments
pretz, I had exactly the same experience when I first started to brush up on my French. I'm pretty much over that now though. I think it's just that t... Read more
oh, that's how you translate "cru". I just passed over it, in the hope I would get the jist of the sentence. Read more
yeah baba, French that now seems to be replaced by Chinese. I was in Montreal trying to give a briefing in even a couple of lines of French, and all... Read more
If only I could make it...then we'd have Baba ghanoush Read more
haha, you've gotta love that. Yeah, I've had that sort of thing before. Yeah, 以为 is a perfect translation in this context I agree. Read more
hehe, maybe it was just me, but I actually initially translated the French "cru" in that sentence as the Chinese "以为" rather than the English "thought... Read more
yeah, for me I suspect a lot of it is the latter. After studying Chinese, French seems easy peasy...there are just no gimme's in Chinese like there ar... Read more
It's funny, I also studied French from age 11-16 back in the UK and I swear that my Chinese studies since then have also indirectly improved my French... Read more
Hey pretz, didn't know you did high school French also. Yeah, that's cool when you still remember it from then [I've brushed mine up lately though, so... Read more
pretz, i think "cru" is some sort of past imperfect (or whatever grammatical term should be used!!) form of the verb "croire". Now I'm really scrapin... Read more