I'm not fluent in French, nowhere near, but I thought I'd start a French vocabulary thread to help out those who might want to learn a bit if they ever find themselves there.
Some useful French vocabulary.
abjection = abjection
absence = absence
accord = accord
action = action
adroit = adroit
age = âge
animal = animal
antique = antique
aplomb = aplomb
apostrophe = apostrophe
bacon = bacon
banquet = banquet
bikini = bikini
biscuit = biscuit
blond = blond
bric-a-brac = bric-à-brac
bureau = bureau
café = café
casserole = casserole
corset = corset
courrier = courrier
cuisine = cuisine
depot = dépôt
division = division
enclave = enclave
ennui = ennui
ether = éther
exemple = exemple
extravagance = extravagance
face = face
farce = farce
fatal = fatal
fiancé = fiancé
final = final
fortune = fortune
foyer = foyer
fruit = fruit
gaffe = gaffe
garage = garage
general = général
hotel = hôtel
infusion = infusion
intelligence = intelligence
jargon = jargon
kilo = kilo
liaison = liaison
liberal = libéral
maintenance = maintenance
message = message
miniature = miniature
morgue = morgue
That'll do for lesson 1.
French language primer.
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There are a few there that have more than one meaning, like face. 
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What does it mean?maiforpeace wrote:There are a few there that have more than one meaning, like face.
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Your ass.Pappa wrote:What does it mean?maiforpeace wrote:There are a few there that have more than one meaning, like face.
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GW Bush"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
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maiforpeace wrote:Your ass.Pappa wrote:What does it mean?maiforpeace wrote:There are a few there that have more than one meaning, like face.
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It's actually true though.devogue wrote:GW Bush"The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
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Bloody French, retrospectively stealing all our good English words.
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It's à propos of nothing, but I was having some hors d'œuvres the other day before attending the ballet with an insouciant and louche entrepreneur of my acquaintance - he has a laissez-faire attitude on the matter of these wretched foreign phrases. Instead, he proposed a ménage à trois liaison... well, I adjusted my orange lamé gown and asked if that was his raison d'être before remarking that such a risqué rendezvous was recherché and passé. He'd no sooner have a glimpse of me in my peignoir, let alone au naturel, than his reservoir would be spent. Still... as they say, la sauce est tout...
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I know, the bastards! They have to show of by trying to make them fancy with added accents and stuff too.Clinton Huxley wrote:Bloody French, retrospectively stealing all our good English words.
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Exactly! Draping their alphabet with all manner of trashy ornamentation. Reprehensible.Pappa wrote:I know, the bastards! They have to show of by trying to make them fancy with added accents and stuff too.Clinton Huxley wrote:Bloody French, retrospectively stealing all our good English words.
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The French have a certain je ne sais pas with words, innit? But just what is the French for je ne sais pas... 
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Dear Pappa, u completely forget that identical words may have completely different connotations (or even have drifted to different meanings) in the two languages.
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too bad you're beyond my budget, or I'd show ya.Bella Fortuna wrote:Ooh la la.
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