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02/07/2009, 21:42 Frenchie Joined on 31/05/2007 Granzay, 2 Sèvres,79 Posts 7,797 Re: Numbers  J.R gone native wrote: Buy boy with days of the week I often have to count from scratch Lundi, Mardi, Mercredi......... etc as I doubt myself, I think that it is because I cannot visualise a day nor (because of my situation) can I identify Lundi as the day I go work, Vendredi the last day, Samedi and Dimanche as being the weekend etc. Only one solution JR.......   You should sing this while working !! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAzr-s9dH0g Life has a habit of biting you on the bum in ways that you least expect    Report

02/07/2009, 21:44 Frenchie Joined on 31/05/2007 Granzay, 2 Sèvres,79 Posts 7,797 Re: Numbers Et pour apprendre à bien compter ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzJYNTPMQTA Life has a habit of biting you on the bum in ways that you least expect    Report

03/07/2009, 14:28 Fi Joined on 09/06/2008 Vosges (88) at last ... Posts 344 Re: Numbers Well the lady phoned me last night and gave me her email address (which I did manage to get down correctly) - I sent her a blank booking form for the gite (apart from price etc) so, unless her writing it totally illegible I should get away with it this time.  I hope.  Now I know why my kids find reciting tables etc in french so tricky - not only have they inherited my "rubbish with numbers" gene, but they've also inherited my "confused by numbers in a foreign language" gene.  They have no hope, poor things. Fi    Report

03/07/2009, 14:43 Scooby Joined on 25/09/2007 Peak District & Périgord Noir Posts 1,144 Re: Numbers I hated giving telephone numbers - i.e. 643278 soixante-quatre, trente-deux etc.  I get flustered trying to working out the combinations to end with a double digit while at the same time giving them in french.     Report

03/07/2009, 16:28 lacote0_0 Joined on 13/03/2007 Posts 172 Re: Numbers You can always pretend to be Swiss or Belgian or even old French when reading the numbers back (huitante/ octante, nonante).    Report

07/07/2009, 10:33 Fi Joined on 09/06/2008 Vosges (88) at last ... Posts 344 Re: Numbers My (semi) retired builder/fount of all knowledge speaks like that anyway.  Very confusing initially! Fi    Report

07/07/2009, 10:46 lacote0_0 Joined on 13/03/2007 Posts 172 Re: Numbers What floors me is people who talk in old francs (eg. "x million"). It was bad enough when it was just between new francs and old, and the pound was at 10, but now you have establish that they are indeed using old francs, and then convert from old francs to new, to euros, and then into pounds sterling.    Report

10/07/2009, 19:26 odile Joined on 09/05/2008 Midlands + Swiss Jura Posts 1,570 Re: Numbers and the Swiss Coops soixante septante huitante nonante - great!    Report

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