How good is your French accent?

Re:How good is your French accent? by melvinmt on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:04PM (#11457029)

Every time I meet a French person my go-to sentence to show off my French is: "à quelle heure le garage est fermé?", only to be met with the same blank stare. I then ask if I pronounced it wrong and they say (in English): "no I understand, but which garage do you mean?".

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Re:How good is your French accent? by apricot on Friday April 08, 2016 @07:04PM (#11458806)

Your sentence is a bit ungrammatical. It would be more natural to say "À quelle heure le garage ferme-t-il?" if you mean "when does the garage close?" (expecting a precise time: it closes at 9PM), or "Quand le garage est-il fermé?", if you mean "when is the garage closed"? (expecting an interval: it's closed from 9PM until 10AM the next day).

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Re:How good is your French accent? by robertnn on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:15PM (#11457104)

I had to look it up. That's a very useful sentence... ;-)

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Re:How good is your French accent? by tonfa on Friday April 08, 2016 @03:43PM (#11457331)

s/la/le/

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Re:How good is your French accent? by melvinmt on Friday April 08, 2016 @04:10PM (#11457520)

Thanks :)

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