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I am learning french

I have to say, the french teachers I had from an Arabic background are REALLY good. Accent is perfect, and they teach the language really well!! Correcting every pronunciation mistake, and explaining rather than reading. I love how professional they were, and I have to say, it is something that I may have not expected. I guess I can be too critical or negative in an unfair way, when it comes to my people, it is because I know more than most.

.. and not all of them are even from North Africa like you would expect, but a few were Lebanese, and the one I had today, was from a Palestinian background.. All of them had such perfect accent and fluency, though some of them do not even live in France.

The other day, I loved what the Lebanese teacher who lived in France was saying about football. The class was about sports, and so i said I did not like football because I do not understand the rules.. She said I do not either, but I can still have fun just cheering anytime I see the French team playing or scoring.. What I liked is the way she said it, seemed fun, loving, and just embracing the place she lives in (and probably lived in for long). It is because I know many people from my background would go all the way to some countries just to hate on them while living on their land.. it was refreshing to see such an easy going and fun person, who seems to have embraced and loved the culture of the place that she lives in.
LegendofPeza · 56-60, M
It's an easy place to fall in love with. 😻
BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F
@LegendofPeza Really, I could imagine 🥔🥰
DrWatson · 70-79, M
When my wife and I were in Paris years ago, we toured a mosque. The tour guide told us that the Quran is generally never translated from Arabic, as the exact words are important. But the two exceptions have been English and French.

I wonder if that is at all related to your observation about how good Arabic speakers are at being French teachers. There seems to be some connection between France and the Arab world here.
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@BittersweetPotato I just did a Google search, and I found a source that says that as early as 1932, the Quran had been translated into 102 different languages. So much for our tour guide! (My French is not great, but my wife is quite conversant in it, and she heard the same thing I did.)
BittersweetPotato · 31-35, F
@DrWatson LOL WTF.. I didn't even do a google search when you said that, and responded to you based on what I know, I just assumed that it was translated to so many languages because I just know that it is!! I find it difficult to believe that a tour guide did not know this!!
DrWatson · 70-79, M
@BittersweetPotato Oh I believed you!

At any rate, based on what you have said, I'm going to reread the Quran and pay attention to the curses!
I have a broad Creole accent that I’m trying to correct (I don’t have it when I speak English). But I originally learned French from Creole family members. I have elocution lessons online everyday to help my pronunciation. When I went to France they understood me and were surprised, but I still feel self-conscious speaking to French people (from France).
ineedadrink · 51-55, M
@bijouxbroussard A guy who grew in the part of Mass that used to be heavily Québécois said that the French loved that an American spoke French with a Québécois accent. Thought it was so cute.
Degbeme · 70-79, M
French. 🙄

 
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