james_mcgill01

[quiet acorn]

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[opal cobalt]

hi,
could you maybe give it a go so we could guide you through your mistakes?

[neon belfry]

Alright just a sec

1. son
2. quel
3. parlez-vous
4. petite
5. des

[opal cobalt]

all good 👍
seems like you didn't need that much help after all

[neon belfry]

Huh
So everything is right?

[opal cobalt]

yes, is there still some confusion you'd like to clear out?

[neon belfry]

I’m having a hard time translating the sentences
I did grammar for 2 months and now it feels like a sudden jump to something

[opal cobalt]

can you pinpoint specific parts you'd like to have a better handle on?

-# btw typo in the exercise: "alors, je lui demande"

[neon belfry]

Vocabulary and writing

For grammar I didn’t have to know many words just some rules
But now there’s a lot of writing part

[opal cobalt]

what do you mean by writing?

[neon belfry]

Dialogues
Passage writing
Translation

[opal cobalt]

vocabulary is something you should be comfortable not knowing all.
There are tens of thousands of words in a language and you're gonna encounter new words all throughout your learning experience. It's good to be able to understand through context, fill in the blanks, and also have a methodology for remembering those new words over time so you keep accumulating more knowledge until it's not a problem anymore

and writing is just a much harder exercise than reading. It requires you to be able to not only understand grammatical points, but master them and be able to find the right tool as the right time, and same thing for vocabulary. Being able to find the elements you need intuitively comes after a lot of practice

[neon belfry]

Yup
I can somehow figure out some things through context and that’s about it

[opal cobalt]

that's good, get comfortable with that
with not knowing all
and use a dictionary for when you want to clear things up

[neon belfry]

I really hate to lose points in conjugation
There are many exceptions in that

[opal cobalt]

you shouldn't expect of yourself as a beginner to know all words in the language

[neon belfry]

Yup

[opal cobalt]

The info I'm giving is very broad rn, because your question wasn't focused, but if you'd like something specific to be explained, feel free

[neon belfry]

The nationality changes according to gender but not for languages right?

[opal cobalt]

languages are not nationalities.
nationalities are adjectives, and adjectives agree based on gender and number (coréen, coréenne, coréens, coréennes)
languages are nouns, with a gender (le coréen)
-# all languages are masculine

[neon belfry]

Oh damn I get it
Thanks a lot
You made me feel better about myself

[neon belfry]

Literally every language is masculine?

[sweet hill]

Yes

Though that's if you're using them as nouns

[neon belfry]

Okay

[sweet hill]

le français, l'anglais, le japonais, l'indonésien

You might've seen « la langue française » pop up now and again

[neon belfry]

Yes

[sweet hill]

There, we're using language as an adjective (the French language) so it agrees with a noun. In this case it's « langue (tongue, language) »

[neon belfry]

Same thing as <<la nouvelle langue>> ?

[sweet hill]

Yup, 'the new language'

[neon belfry]

Alright

[opal cobalt]

adjectives and nouns work fundamentally differently
nouns have a gender.
adjectives don't have a gender themselves, but change form based on the gender of the noun they're qualifying