Est-ce un bordel?!

[rachelmanija]

I have been having odd luck with French CDs. My first set turned out, despite being labeled as a beginning, learn in your car course, consisted of long French conversations followed by questions about them in English.

My second set is a normal learn in your car course, with words and phrases spoken in English and then translated into French. Just what I need. However, while the English speaker is a man with a rather flat inflection, the French speaker is a woman who says everything in the tone of horrified inquiry usually represented in print with the punctuation marks "?!"

I have been imagining what could possibly prompt such exclamations as "Madame?!" "Monsieur?!" and "Ou est il?!" I fill them in as I attempt to learn in my car.

"Madame?! Did I say something which implied that I wished you to fondle me there?!"

"Monsieur?! Are you the spy we have been searching for?!"

"The treasure we stole from the royal chambers! Where is it?!"

Comments

[grrlpup]

At age ten I decided I wanted to learn French, and what our library had was a set of records, at least ten years old. Everything was about cigarettes!

[smw]

Beautiful. I might actually stick with a French language course that provided this much entertainment.

[tool-of-satan.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I will now be mildly disappointed if your Parisian trip does not include an occasion to use at least one of those exclamations. Well, the second or third one anyway.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

Monsieur! You are sitting in the seat reserved for the Opera Ghost!

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The best one by far is Pimsleur, imo.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Priced at its worth, unfortunately.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

If you can find a used first volume, you can borrow my second volume, which really has useful stuff.

[daedala.livejournal.com]

Your library should have it.

[cschells.livejournal.com]

For not-in-your-car French there's a good (and free) language-learning series on the BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/
The guy is very levelheaded, though...

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool!