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[–]yousaythosethings 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I speak English, Spanish, French, and I am currently learning a more obscure language from an entirely different language family. Spanish seems like the most logical language I know and is the most practical. It is a simple language for mastering the basics, but there is a lot more to the grammar at the very advanced level, although I think a lot of it is only stuff you have to learn if you're an academic. French is the most romantic language I know. Women seem to love to hear me say words in French lol, although I am not very great at French. It is the opposite of Spanish in that its basics are harder to master but there are some parts of it that much simpler, especially when it comes to speaking rather than writing. But I feel like my mind is at odds with underlying "logic" framework of French. Don't get me started on counting in French. What a clusterfuck. I love French cinema, and honestly need to be watching more French movies while in quarantine.

I have traveled to and lived in countries where these languages are spoken and with the obscure language, I have traveled there and have a lot of connections to there. By the way, I'm pretty sure that my language teacher/partner is a lesbian and I think she's trying to figure out if I am too, so that's interesting. . . . But she's in a homophobic country so I'm not going to bring up the topic myself.

Let me know if any of you have recommendations for movies in Spanish and French.

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    [–]reluctant_commenter 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

    (except for counting, I think the french were high when they made the words for numbers wtf)

    Agreed. 90 = four eighties plus ten??

    [–]yousaythosethings 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Lol yea the numbers are math problems. Like Abe Lincoln's "Four score and seven years ago. . . ." for 87.

    99 is even worse than 90: quatre-vingt-dix-neuf. Four twenties ten nine. And when it's just 80 it's quatre-vingts, but if it's 81 then it's quatre-vingt-un (without the s). Lord have mercy. When I was in my earliest French class and I was learning how you say phone numbers in France, I had the absolute worst string of numbers to be repeating.

    At least the Swiss and Belgian francophones say septante, huitante, and nonante for 70, 80, and 90 instead of soixante-dix, quatre-vingts, and quatre-vingt-dix.

    [–]reluctant_commenter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    Yeah, but "score" is an old word that functions like "dozen", at least it's not how the number 87 works lol.

    Ah, interesting, I didn't know that about Swiss/Belgian French! I might just adopt that, lol. Yep, I remember phone numbers being tough to learn..