As most of the people in my life do not know, I’m taking a language course in French at the Talencentrum in Leiden. Our teacher is pretty awesome and has an amazing accent for someone who isn’t a native speaker (and I can tell since my mom is a frenchie).
The classes are every thursday from 20.15 till 22.00 (usually till 22.15 because she is so excited that she just continues…). Last week, we were dealing with the Imparfait and the Passé composé which are both a past tense form. The only difference lies in the fact that the Imparfait is used when describing something, to give a reason for something, something that is habitual, whereas the passé composé is used for things that have finished already so usually with a past tense marker in the sentence like hier (yesterday) or where the time of an action is provided … pendant vingt minutes (so that you have been there for the past 20 minutes), or where there is a change in state.
At least… If I understood this correctly *thinkyface*
But our teacher promised to bring copies of French for Dummies which explains the difference between the two tenses particularly well. So let’s hope I will get it!
Anyways.. We had to write a news report in French about something.. And I didn’t do it because basically.. I’m lazy as ****. So I had to do it for this week, YAY for teachers \o/.
This is what I wrote:
Un peu bizarre
Nous savons que les Américains sont un peu bizarre, mais ce rapport est trop fou.
En Mardi le neuf Octobre, il y a eu une compétition de manger dans la Floride du Sud. Les participants n’ont dû pas
manger des hot-dogs ou des gâteaux, mais ils ont dû manger des cafards. Le gagnant, qui a gagné un python, est mort peu de temps après sa victoire. Les médecins ne savent pas quelle est la cause de la mort, mais comme les autres participants ne sont pas malades, les médecins croient que les cafards ne sont pas la cause. L’organisateur de la compétition n’est pas dans le pétrin parce que les participants devaient signer une renonciation pour joindre.
For those who know French.. is it okayish when looking at the grammar? because I suck at all the tenses and if no-one responds well then no-one does and I’ll just ask my teacher to check it ^^!
Anyways! I’m off to bed \o/
Que ta nuit soit belle et remplie de douceur,
Much Luv et des gros bisous
For the Life of Me... 