A2Z Challenge - Day 6 - Le Français / French

(English translation below)

C’est mon troisième blog post en Français. (La première, et la deuxième)  

Je suis en train d’apprendre la langue. Alors, s’il y a des erreurs, excusez-moi, s'il vous plaît !

J’aime le français. C’est une langue très musicale et ‘douce’. Mais ce n’est pas facile.

J’utilise Duolingo pour apprendre la langue – je passe 15-20 chaque jour après le petit déjeuné. Il y a beaucoup de leçons, et maintenant, j’ai étudié jusqu’à l’unité 5.  

Il y a beaucoup de sites touristiques en France, par exemple, la Tour Eiffel, le musée du Louvre, le Château de Versailles etc. Ils sont tous très célèbres.

Les idées de liberté et de démocratie sont venues de France.

Il y a beaucoup de festivals intéressants en France, par exemple, le fête de la musique, le fête du livre, le fête de la lecture, etc.

La cuisine française est très connue dans le monde entier. Il y a plus de 200 types de fromage là-bas.

Avec un peu de chance, un jour, je visiterai le France !

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This is my third blog post in French. (The first, the second)

I am learning the language. So, in the case there are errors, please excuse me!

I love French. It’s very ‘musical’ and ‘soft’. But it’s not easy.

I am using Duolingo to learn French. I spend around 15 to 20 minutes daily after breakfast. There are lots of lessons and now I have studied till Unit 5.

There are many tourist attractions in France, for example, Eiffel Tower, Louvre museum, Château de Versailles etc., etc. They are all very famous.

There are many interesting festivals, like music festival, book festival, festival of reading etc.

French cuisine is world famous. There are more than 200 types of cheese there.

Hopefully, I will visit France one day!

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This post is part of the blogging challenge in April every year, wherein bloggers put up one post a day, from A to Z, every day except Sundays. 

I'm participating in #BlogchatterA2Z. I am also on A2Z April Challenge.

Image credit: Pixabay

Une surprise / A surprise

(English translation is at the end.)

De nos jours, il fait très froid la nuit. C’est parce qu’il pleut. Aujourd’hui, il a beaucoup plu.

Bengaluru a deux saisons des pluies – de juin à septembre et novembre - décembre.

Parfois, il y a le tonnerre et la foudre.

Quand il pleut, on ne peut pas sortir. C’est très ennuyeux!

Aujourd’hui, j'étais chez moi.. J’ai cuisiné, regardé la télé, envoyé des e-mails, et nettoyé ma chambre.

L’après-midi, il y avait une surprise – j’ai reçu un paquet en ligne via Amazon.

Immédiatement, je l’ai ouvert. C’était un cadeau de mon ami – la biographie de Roger Federer!

J’étais très heureux, et je l’ai appelé pour le remercier.

Il m’a dit : « J’ai vu ce livre en Amazon. Je sais que tu aimes beaucoup Federer, et tu n’as pas ce livre. Alors, j’ai décidé de te l’offrir. »

C’est très gentil, et j’ai dit : « merci beaucoup! »

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Nowadays, it's very cold at night. It's because it rains. Today, it rained a lot.

Bengaluru has two rainy seasons - from June to September and November - December. Sometimes, there is thunder and lightning.

When it rains, we can't go out. It's very boring.

Today, I was at home. I cooked, watched television, sent some emails, and cleaned my room.

In the afternoon, there was a surprise - I received a packet online via Amazon.

Immediately, I opened it. It was a gift from my friend -- Roger Federer's biography!

I was very happy and I called to thank him. 

He said, "I saw the book on Amazon. I know you like Federer a lot, and that you don't have that book. So, I decided to gift it to you."

How sweet of him! I said, "Thank you, so much!"

 

Le premier blog article en Français / First blog post in French

On April 14, last year, I said, "Maybe one day, there will be a blog post in French!" I thought I shouldn't delay that début any longer.

But before that, there was a problem. Though the English and French alphabets are the same, French has five types of accents. The pronunciation of a letter with and without an accent is different. 

The five are:

L'accent aigu (é)

L'accent grave (è)

L'accent circonflexe or "chapeau" (â)

La cédille (ç)

Le tréma (ë)

I needed French a keyboard or some method by which I could get these accents.

Windows 10 has an option to have keyboards of different languages. I enabled the one for French. 

But the problem with that was that the keys aren't the same. Like for example, where we have 'a', it's 'q'. So, if I type out femme on a French keyboard, it'll turn out to be: fe,,e.

I went to Youtube and searched how I could get French accents on Windows English keyboard. I found that there are so many methods one could do that. But the one I liked, the simplest one, was this.

This is the keyboard shortcut. 

é = Cntr ' e 

è = Cntr ` e

ê = Cntr Shift ^ 

ë = Cntr Shift ;

ç = Cntr ,

But it works only on MS Word; not on Blogger Draft or Notepad. 

So, here I go. Needless to say, I typed this out on MS Word and then pasted it here. The translation is below that:

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Bonjour! Comment ça va?

Je m’appelle Pradeep, et j’habite á Bengaluru en Inde.

J’apprends le Français alors j’essaye – pour la premier fois – écrire un article sur mon blog en Français.

S’il y a des erreurs, pardon, s’il vous plaît.

Aujourd’hui, c’est le premier jour d’août.

C’est dimanche.

C’est un jour férié donc je ne dois pas aller au bureau.

Hello! How are you?

My name is Pradeep, and I live in Bengaluru in India.

I am learning French, so I am trying -- for the first time -- to write a blog post in French.

Please excuse me if there are errors.

Today is the first day of August.

It's Sunday.

It's a public holiday and I don't have to go to office.

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I am sure to get some usages / prepositions wrong, which I guess will get better with more exposure to the language.