TheFeedingHand
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Are universities free in France?
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ComputerMKII
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No, they're just cheap, in every sense of the term. We have some decent business and engineering schools though.
Doesn't matter, I'm gay.
TheFeedingHand
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cheap in quality and expenses?
Cool, I imagine you have to pay just a few hundred euros for tuition every semester
cheap in quality and expenses?
Cool, I imagine you have to pay just a few hundred euros for tuition every semester
You pay every year.
ComputerMKII
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That's pretty much it. It's a few hundred euros per year, though.cheap in quality and expenses?
Cool, I imagine you have to pay just a few hundred euros for tuition every semester
Edit: Beaten by Kurtofan
You'll love it then
You'll love it then
Thought so, France is great!
Why so gloomy Computer? I'm starting to get worried about you.
Tribes of Trusty
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Oh Computer, why so gloomy ? I make a lot of French girls smile
About college, personnally I pay 400€ (200€ of scholarship fees and 200€ of URSAFF, ha ha ) in medicine (one of the few courses that isn't pwned by private courses). I consider that cheap.
Anyways fellow gaffeurs français, I consider myself lucky to live near Belgium, as I get access to loads of delicious beer we can't find in other regions in France. Hips !
Doesn't mean I geat to fuck them
About college, personnally I pay 400€ (200€ of scholarship fees and 200€ of URSAFF, ha ha ) in medicine (one of the few courses that isn't pwned by private courses). I consider that cheap.
Anyways fellow gaffeurs français, I consider myself lucky to live near Belgium, as I get access to loads of delicious beer we can't find in other regions in France. Hips !
Stay in Belgium ? Well might depends what you're looking in France.
So some people really watched Yolo, oh dear ?
I just zapped through it and it was really stupid.
I don't feel that great in Belgium. Bad weather, life is more expensive and stressful, can't relate much to the general mentality here. There's not much to keep me here really and I love the French culture and language. I need to start my life over and France seems like the best place to do it (and easiest since I can easily get a job there).
Well if you have a safe job and find a nice place should be a good plan.
Students definitely are but I'm not going to be a student forever.
I'm studying audiology now and audiologist is an in-demand job pretty much everywhere. France doesn't have a specific audiology education too, that's why you see quite some French audiology students in Brussels.
I'm thinking of going to Toulouse or Nice.
Toulouse seems like a good choice !
Yeah, it seems like a really great place!
There's a Belgian expression that goes "vivre comme Dieu en France" which means to live carefree and I believe that to be true
You are selling yourself short. The ENS system and Paris sud are probably the greatest math and philosophy schools in the world. Computer t'est un anglais dans la peau d'un francais
ComputerMKII
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True enough. I've had a few teachers from ENS and they were great.You are selling yourself short. The ENS system and Paris sud are probably the greatest math and philosophy schools in the world. Computer t'est un anglais dans la peau d'un francais
<3 i'm thinking of moving to france once i pay my never ending american tuition debt. Which is like in 15 years at least. tsc tsc. Maybe germany.
Partial Gamification
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Split the difference: Strasbourg
Haha good call, the center of Europe apparently according to mr.hollande.
Yes, it is
If you plan to move in France to work, Alsace is one of the richest regions in France, with a lot of nature and the proximity of Germany and Switzerland provides a lot of work (I work in biotechnologies so I'm lucky here).
Now, if I was very wealthy, I would live in a nice little village somewhere in Provence, with a view on the mediterranean see <3
Yes, it is
If you plan to move in France to work, Alsace is one of the richest regions in France, with a lot of nature and the proximity of Germany and Switzerland provides a lot of work (I work in biotechnologies so I'm lucky here).
Now, if I was very wealthy, I would live in a nice little village somewhere in Provence, with a view on the mediterranean see <3
Au minimum j'ai vais avoir un diplome en pharmacie. Je suis en train de travailler pour possiblement specialiser en pharmacoeconomics, mais on va voir comment sa va aboutir. Merci du conseil!
Good french! But some little mistakes:
"Au minimum je vais avoir un diplôme en pharmacie. Je suis en train de travailler pour peut-être me spécialiser en pharmaco-économie, mais on va voir comment ça va aboutir. Merci du conseil!"
Most of the big pharmaceutical companies are in Switzerland (Pfizer/Roche/Novartis...) so what a lot of people do (and that I might do one day, since my thesis involve a lot of work on antibiotics) is that they live near the border, since the life is a lot less expensive than in Switzerland and they work in Bale.
It's the same way of life as the bankers living in the north of Lorraine and working in the Luxembourg.
Oh, op you forgot to mention finesse incarnated in your first post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TX90uT_Emc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TX90uT_Emc
I saw him once for a few seconds, it was like seeing god. No joke, Zizou is my childhood idol.
p_xavier
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I was told once by a French girl: "Why do people in Canada smile all the time, you look like retards!".
I replied, at least we don't look like pretentious high-class whores.
Un peu facher le quebecois? J'avais lu quelquechose que ta ecris du genre les francais sont culturellement depasser et pris dans les 60. Parce que le quebec c'est vraiment un edifice de progres culturelle encore?....
ComputerMKII
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Bingo.
NYCmetsfan
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Its not that hard...
I've had some of my best luck with french girls and gotten much more than smiles.
I want to move to france some day. Gotta work on my french though...
p_xavier
Authorized Fister
Je ne suis pas québécois, j'y habite. Oui, à 100 lieux de la France.
TheFeedingHand
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I posted about this before but got no reply. Does anyone know a decent site to learn french?
I'm still thinking of pursuing the Foreign Legion as an American.
My French is alright, I took it at a young age, and I feel I have some of the basics down , I think some of it actually set over the years. However I still have some confusion regarding simple things like -ir, -ent, etc. as I've forgotten when I should use them.
Anyone know what would be a good tool to use in learning French from the basics on? I'd prefer to have a book if possible so I don't always have to stare at a computer screen.
Thanks.
EDIT: An example of where I'm at, I can make out what is said above with some inference. I would have trouble understanding it spoken unless very slow.
EDIT2: Huh. The above is alright.
My French is alright, I took it at a young age, and I feel I have some of the basics down , I think some of it actually set over the years. However I still have some confusion regarding simple things like -ir, -ent, etc. as I've forgotten when I should use them.
Anyone know what would be a good tool to use in learning French from the basics on? I'd prefer to have a book if possible so I don't always have to stare at a computer screen.
Thanks.
EDIT: An example of where I'm at, I can make out what is said above with some inference. I would have trouble understanding it spoken unless very slow.
EDIT2: Huh. The above is alright.
Ya habibi, fascinating. And would you mind explaining the reasoning that helped you to get to that conclusion?
"Citation d'avatar"
Boom Boom Pow
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i'm actually heading to paris in 2 weekends. excited as it's my first time in france. 4 days should be good enoguh
Mavromatis
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Just wanted to say that French is the official language at Bénin too.
Oh I have been to Benin. My ex bf comes from this country. Nothing but wonderful memories.
zero shift
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*Looks at HDI and GDP*
Why are all of the French African states usually the poorest nations in Africa? Doesn't France help their previous colonies more than Britain?
Well I warned you, didn't I?
The holydays started this weekend, meaning that I won't travel using shitty SNCF for quite a while.
zero shift said:
The expression you're looking for is :
"Rien à battre"
French government cares even less about Françafrique than they care about the DOM-TOM and believe me they don't give a slightest bit of a shit about that.
ComputerMKII
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...l-as-hes-chosen-to-guard-French-language.htmlBritish poet becomes 'immortal' as he's chosen to guard French language
A 74-year-old poet has become the first Briton to achieve "immortality" by becoming a member of the Académie Française, the hallowed institution famous for defending the French language from "Anglo-Saxon" invasion.
Michael Edwards will join former luminaries Voltaire, Victor Hugo and undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau
British poet becomes 'immortal' as he's chosen to guard French language
Michael Edwards will join former luminaries Voltaire, Victor Hugo and undersea explorer
Michael Edwards is the first "immortal" - as the academy's 40 members are known – to be born in Britain and whose first language is English since Cardinal Richelieu, chief minister to King Louis XIII, founded the body in 1635.
Its aim was to "fix the French language, giving it rules, rendering it pure and comprehensible by all".
Former luminaries include Voltaire, Victor Hugo, the undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, and the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. Present members include the former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and the former president of the European Parliament, Simone Veil.
A much-admired poet in both the French and English languages, Mr Edwards is a professor at the Collège de France, France's most prestigious academic institution.
A series of lectures he gave on "the genius of English poetry" was just re-broadcast on France Culture, the country's high-brow arts radio station.
A former holder of the chairs of English and French at Warwick University, he has lectured and written on Shakespeare in French and on Racine in English. He is married to a Frenchwoman and holds dual nationality.
This was his third attempt to join the immortals after two near misses as the famously finicky members failed to reach a majority. It would have been his last, as new membership rules bar new entrants over the age of 75, in an apparent attempt to spruce up what is sometimes mockingly called the world's most select old people's club.
Before his second, attempt, Mr Edwards had said: "To be elected would be the ultimate honour". "It would be the last tick in the box to prove that, after all these years, I have been accepted as being French, even though I may remain very proud to be British," he said.
Membership is for life - unless it is revoked for misconduct - and new members only elected when a post is freed up by a death of their predecessor.
Members are expected to wear the official uniform of the "académicien" - a green habit, with a long black coat and black-feathered cocked hat embroidered with golden-green leafy motifs, together with black trousers.
To sit beneath the gilded dome of the Institut de France on the Left Bank, he beat five French candidates, including the former head of French state radio, for seat number 31, formerly occupied by French writer Jean Dutourd.
The academy is famous for its tireless battle against "Anglo-Saxon" invasions of French, offering Gallic equivalents to Anglicisms, such as courriel instead of email.
Mr Edwards agrees wholeheartedly with its mission.
He recently told The Independent: "This is a moment of crisis for French and it makes sense, I believe, for the academy to choose someone who comes from, as it were, the opposite camp but has become a champion of the special importance and beauty of the French language."
He believes defending the French language is about preserving intellectual diversity, which is akin to preserving ecological diversity.
He said: "French philosophers and scientists are increasingly writing in English in order to be published worldwide. But if they write in English, they will cease to think in the characteristic way the French think. A whole treasure of the mind will be lost."
Congrats!
Bonjour. This summer i go with my girlfriend to Paris and Normandy. Paris is easy to find information on. So i wonder if anybody can help me with the Normandy part. Im big on history and would like to visit Omaha beach, i readed however that it is used as normal beach with people sunbathing and so on. For some reason in my mind i always thought it would be forbidden to sunbathe out of respect. So is it true that especially in the summer the beach looks like any other popular beach? Secondly we would like to visit some museums about the landing. I founded it difficult to find some good museums, any recommendations? Mont Saint-Michel is a bit further away from Omaha beach, so is it worth it to visit? It looks quite spectacular. Thank you
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