sleepyponi

[civic flicker]

Please be patient

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[gaunt cargo]

You'll start out by translating between French and English in your head. If you can, learn to respond in French and avoid English where possible.

[frigid leaf]

Translating is gonna help but it's gonna be misleading sometimes so you wanna break away from it asap imo

[dry prairie]

There was like a question about how much smt was and I got very confused bc it was like " Combien coûte"

So In conclusion, I should just learn everything in french instead of trying to translate everything bc thats what I've been doing from the start and I cant seem to improve alot, just little by little

[frigid leaf]

I mean coûter is literally the equivalent of cost

But yea progress is never gonna be super fast in language learning

And like idk how to explain that it's "combien coûte cet ordinateur" with the subject at the end if i were to translate it so yea

I think for nouns and verbs it's fine to translate but for grammar it's better to study how it works in French directly

[dry prairie]

Okay got it, thank you so much

[tired gazelle]

Translation of individual words is good and you shouldnt be afraid of using it, but it also should not be relied on for 1:1 translations basically

Use Wordreference when you are translating, and wiktionary when you are not (or if you can't find it on Wordreference)