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On April 17 at 4:41 AM by chris

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

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On April 17 at 4:34 AM by bababardwan

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

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On April 17 at 4:28 AM by pretzellogic

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

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On April 17 at 4:27 AM by pretzellogic

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

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On April 17 at 4:10 AM by bababardwan

If only I could make it...then we'd have Baba ghanoush Read more

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On April 17 at 4:06 AM by bababardwan

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

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On April 17 at 4:01 AM by chris

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

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On April 17 at 4:00 AM by bababardwan

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

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On April 17 at 3:57 AM by chris

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

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On April 17 at 3:51 AM by bababardwan

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