Travelling to non-speaking English country like France is like entering in a new world. If you fancy to travel to France then you should learn at least few terminologies to communicate with them. Majority of the locals living outside of Paris don’t speak English very well. Learning there basic phrases during your stay is very useful. If you smile they will smile back, if you say hello they will say salut.
I remember first time I was there. I'm starving and I want something to eat to fill my empty stomach. The only open is a boulangerie pâtisserie it's a bakery specialising in French pastry. Before I left the car I said to my husband "Bon jour Comment allez-vous? deux pan au cholat. S'il vous plaît merci" in English (Good Morning. How are you? 2 bread with chocolate please thank you). He was laughing to me and says, "I'm so proud of you." Is it right? He says yes! He speak French but he don't want to go out. I force to go out and speak the language so I can get my pan au chocolat. Honestly speaking I don't want to do sign language because God is given me a mouth to use to speak and I don't want to look like an idiot foreigner.
Basic French Phrases for Travellers
23 comments:
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Very useful tip for those who have plans to go to France. Merci.
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bon jour! i want to learn French but my tongue is twisted with those words...
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How about "your place or mine?" ;)
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I used to work in a French-inspired bakery and restaurant before but we were never taught how to simply speak the basic words :( Glad you posted about it. Great help :)
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langya, sinubukan kong basahin yung mga french word gamit yung pronunciation nila... eh namilipit yung dila ko hahaha
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Merci!!!! I'll print this out and will memorize the words!!! merci! :))
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France is a great place to visit. I have a friend who is there right now but she's still struggling with their language. So she goes to school to learn it.
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i really love the language. My patient speaks french very well and she's teaching me some words from time to time. But i guess i have to work with my hebrew first before i let my nose bleed with another language.. :)
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Bon jour!! Awww thank you so much for this, planning to go there mid of this year... Hope so! Hehe.. Merci!! ;) copied and pasted in my notes...
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Hahaha try q nga maya to sa kapitbhay naming french,,,
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nakaka tuwa naman to, dali lang siya matutunan kaso mahirap yata pag ipasulat na to mgkaiba sila pag e pronounce na
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very handy especially when you visit francophone countries.
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i learned a lot of common french words in this post of yours, Merci :)
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this is great for those who will go and travel to France. hehe. Nakalimutan ko na French language ko, hirap when you got no one to talk to in the language.
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this is very useful jenny, thanks for this. must learn even the basic, so you'll get by in cases where no one knows english or filipino. Yahweh bless.
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enrolling to language class, it pretty expensive so i've bought books for my self study.. I have in French,and Nihongo :)
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Try ko din to sa kasama kong Thai teaching French. Astig!
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I will keep this for reference but I'm not much of a traveler :))
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Love it! hihi meron na akong additional knowledge about basic French words. :)
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Au revoir literally translated is until we meet again, right? :)
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very helpful list to those who doesn't know the language :)
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Thanks sis! This may come in handy when I go back to Paris with my girlfriends from work =)