French males !!!!!

[User169]

Non, le singe est sur la branche !

I'm sure I remember seeing the routine with "dans l'arbre". Interwebby suggests he changed the sentence when somebody pointed out that "dans l'arbre" means "inside the tree"!

 

[Doseone]

Say, for arguments sake, hypothetically, you were to accept the propositions of both the 20 year old and your 70 year old neighbour, could you not console yourself with the fact that the average age of the 2 men would be 45 ?

 

[Globalti]

[QUOTE 2502336, member: 1314"]Party time!!!!!!!

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Oh yes, one of the best groups ever to come out of France. The first time I saw them at Band On The Wall in Manchester they blew me away and I've loved them ever since.

If you like that "gitane" style try the Hungarian gipsy band Ando Drom:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnUkt_SeeiU


(Not the kind of tourist gipsy music you will hear in your typical Budapest restaurant though)

On horny young French males, doesn't the OP know that it's absolument de rigeur for a young Franch man to have an older maitresse?

 

[vernon]

je ne parle pas francais !!!!!

Pourquoi vivez-vous en France quand vous ne parlez pas français?

 

[vernon]

Say, for arguments sake, hypothetically, you were to accept the propositions of both the 20 year old and your 70 year old neighbour, could you not console yourself with the fact that the average age of the 2 men would be 45 ?

But she's 21 and finds the 49 year gap with the 70 year old a bit too much and the 20 year old is still infantile.

 

[User169]

Pourquoi vivez-vous en France quand vous ne parlez pas français?

Well I don't think they kill you if you don't know French!

 

[Gary E]

There's nothing wrong with the French that a few hundred miles more sea wouldn't cure

 

[Canrider]

I'm sure I remember seeing the routine with "dans l'arbre". Interwebby suggests he changed the sentence when somebody pointed out that "dans l'arbre" means "inside the tree"!

In Quebecois, that would be a perfectly acceptable usage, as in:
http://home.ca.inter.net/~yvondian/feuilles.htm

 

[Christopher]

WTF !! is the matter with french men !!! just been propositioned by an 20 year old !!!!!! suppose its good for the old morale !

also makes a change from the 70 year old nieghbour !!! can' wait to move

They were probably just asking for directions. As you don't speak French, how would you know what they were saying?

 

[Fnaar]

le singe est dans l'arbre n'est pas?

Mais oui, monsieur. J'ai oublie le singe, et le chat est mort.

 

[Archie_tect]

...et le souris?

 

[vernon]

Well I don't think they kill you if you don't know French!

It makes life a bit easier if the lingua franca is that of the host nation. I adopted a 'go native' attitude when I started cycle touring in France and stopped speaking English the moment I set foot on French soil. Eight weeks worth of cycle touring has honed my French and I can now hold conversations without hesitation. repetition or deviation. There have been moments of hilarity when transliterations don't work but the French that I've been lucky enough to meet have been wonderful, patient and tolerant.

I've even taught bi-lingual ICT lessons in school when I acquired two French speaking refugees from the Democaratic Republic of Congo.

My German for my forthcoming cycletour is a bit more limited and restricted to a transactional vocabulary: weights and measures, currency and basic food items e.g. beer and kebabs.

 

[Canrider]

I've had entire conversations in Paris with me speaking Quebecois French and them replying in passable English.

 

[Herbie]

WTF !! is the matter with french men !!! just been propositioned by an 20 year old !!!!!! suppose its good for the old morale !

also makes a change from the 70 year old nieghbour !!! can' wait to move

....hey babe...if you got...flaunt it

 

[User169]

It makes life a bit easier if the lingua franca is that of the host nation. I adopted a 'go native' attitude when I started cycle touring in France and stopped speaking English the moment I set foot on French soil. Eight weeks worth of cycle touring has honed my French and I can now hold conversations without hesitation. repetition or deviation. There have been moments of hilarity when transliterations don't work but the French that I've been lucky enough to meet have been wonderful, patient and tolerant.

I've even taught bi-lingual ICT lessons in school when I acquired two French speaking refugees from the Democaratic Republic of Congo.

My German for my forthcoming cycletour is a bit more limited and restricted to a transactional vocabulary: weights and measures, currency and basic food items e.g. beer and kebabs.

My comment was intended as a joke.

You used the verb "vivre" which means to live in the sense of being alive. The verb "habiter" would I think be more commonly used where the sense of residing somewhere were intended.

Your sentence read to me "Why are you alive in France when you can't speak French?"

Whilst the French may frown on those that don't converse with them in their native tongue, I don't think they typically consider it a capital offence.