"How Good is Your French?" Topic

On a scale of 0 (I don't speak French) to 10 (I'm a native speaker), how well do you speak French?

Non existent, but wish my Russian was better

0 & no interest in learning it either.

Maybe 6.

Took it for 3 years in school many years ago.
Never used it since.
Let's be charitable and give me a 2.

My French is pretty good they only Surrender about half the time/

Took 4 years. Never used it. Forgot most of it.

Dan

Good enough to make me think it's better than it actually is.

0

1.

2 to 3 – I can get a train ticket, a beer, something to eat.

I can tell someone I have a yellow bicycle (although I do not have a yellow bicycle!).

I can't discuss the latest film I saw or book I read in a meaningful way.

6. Few years à Montréal helped…

4

3

I'll be learning it for my trip to France in June.

Speaking to the natives – about a 2. Translating from Text, nearer a 4 if on military matters and access to a dictionary.

Even with this I managed to show a group of French ladies (non Parisians) how to use the ticket machine on the Metro !!!

je ne suis pas française, mais,je fais de mon mieux!!!

1.

A year of French class in college, at 8 AM, in a room with a heavy, droning air conditioner unit and a man standing in front of the class, speaking in a language I did not know. So I am of course very adept at snoring in French.

(Okay, I understood enough (and remained awake enough) to parse what he obviously thought were humorous stories of his days living in France, but which weren't at all humorous. But maybe the laugh was lost in the translation in my brain.)

0

Guess what?11/10

One of my playing chums is French so getting translations is easy. Help with pronunciation is OK too.

Maybe 0.5. A little military vocabulary.

0.3 (i know a few words)

I can always make myself understood, but butcher the language pretty badly with a good accent.

I'll give myself a 3.

Un peu. Deux.

0

0.5 After two years in high school and 4 in college Merde.

8. But this should really be with letters instead as done by the federal government:

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2, but my wife is a French Teacher and some of it has rubbed off.

Say a 4 I guess. Can read and some ability for writing but my tongue has trouble with speaking. Took college French for three classes many years ago.

Two years in high school (the second because a cute girl was going to be in the class) and a semester in college. I try to use it mentally, and I ate lunch with an American lady and two French ladies in Mycenae, and we Americans spoke French while the French ladies spoke English (the American lady was a teacher, and this was supposed to be a learning experience). Since college, I've picked up some military French and a few other odd words.

Grelber

I'd say 2-3, I can read a bit but can't really speak in a conversation.

4

Google translator is my friend

Probably 6 or 7. My accent is good enough to be mistaken for French until I run out of vocabulary. That happens faster as I get older!

Took it in college and my French is terrible. It was either a foreign language or math.

0.5 I can puzzle out written French by context, can't say that I speak any

Being my first language seems to have helped most of my life.

Spoken about a 3 or 4. Reading perhaps 1 or 2 better. Managed to get by last time I was in France 4 years ago. My German is much better even though I studied it for a shorter period. I can read Dutch but not speak it. Wish I could speak and read Spanish, but I'm probably too old to learn now.

Quatre

It's classified …

vdal1812 for the win

4 here (city is 40% French) 6 anywhere else

Cinq.

Comme beaucoup de langues, je parle assez bien pour me mettre en difficulté, mais pas assez pour me sortir.

6-ish.

Decent reading knowledge and can follow movies pretty well with glances at the subtitles as needed. Vocabulary is rusty and doesn't pop to mind quickly enough for decent conversation.

6-ish as well in the spoken form. I can speak enough to buy things, order food and get directions

I read it much better – well enough that that Canadian government sends me French research grants to evaluate

Maybe a 3-- good enough to read my original Funckens and a little more with a good dictionary.

1

JohnG

Probably a 3 at best;only had about a year and a half of it in middle school.

maybe a 3

Sounds like I'm a three. I could read well enough to follow the text in a Greek archaeological museum where there were no English descriptions. On the other hand I'm a bit deaf, and I have recurring conversations which go along the lines of

Me: Parlez-vous Anglais ?
OP: Non, je ne parle pas Anglais
Me: Ou puis-je trouve un …. er….
OP: OK, perhaps we try it in English ….