fsociety0811

[mint condor]

Please be patient

Our volunteers look into many questions every day; sometimes it takes them a little while to answer.

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Make it descriptive, including relevant context, but also to the point. This way you improve your chances of getting a more relevant and specific answer.

[woeful prairie]

What you said is basically "I new to French"
You're missing the verb

[mighty briar]

also just a heads up, regardless of whether apprendre is irregular or not, you didn't conjugate it

so in rough terms you said "Hello, I to learn French, I new to French". Which is vaguely comprehensible but completely agrammatical

[median sentinel]

yes thats cause I dont know how to conjugate irregular verbs as of right now

my question to you is

why cant I say, "a francais"

why does it need to be "en francais"

[woeful prairie]

Prepositions notoriously don't line up between languages

In English, you're new to something. In French, we say nouveau en quelque chose

[mighty briar]

in what context? who says you can't?

[median sentinel]

what does that mean

[median sentinel]

in this context, atleast

[mighty briar]

french is not english with new words

please try to actually learn some french, before you just start translating random things

[woeful prairie]

It means languages aren't 1:1 calque of one another, otherwise translator wouldn't be a job.

[median sentinel]

I am trying, and it isn't a "random" thing

why do you think I've joined this server?

if you wanna correct me, do so, but don't tell me what to do or what not to do

[mighty briar]

you need a book or a course or something to structure you're learning

[median sentinel]

yes and if you have something, then tell me, otherwise, dont waste my time