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hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english? 
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Joined: Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:34 am
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Post hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
and I noticed some things I'm not sure they are true:
-in the US , you all have very big phones!
-all cops eat donuts.
- teenagers never drink beer.
-there are no fat people.
-people don't smoke, never.
-all cops and taxis have a ford crown victoria.

can you confirm? lol
good bye
I thank you very much. I try to read in english too, I love that language, it' s so beautiful!
lol I know it's just stereotypes showed in movies and real america is not like that. It's the same in french movies: all french live in paris, they all have an appartment near the effeil tower, they all live in an old old borought ( about 10% of paris is like that)
there are always moped in streets ( that kind of moped are so common in italy and spain but I've never seen that kinda stuff in france lol)
@ beejee: I had some english grammar classes when I was at school, but the french school program does sucks concerning languages learning. german teenager speak 2 or 3 tongues but a french one cannot understand english ( just a little on his playstation lol) that's a shame.


Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:34 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
It's just a fiction.They are just fiction movies but you always watch movies so you think they are real or aren't.


Mon Dec 17, 2007 4:54 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
Sounds true, based on what I've seen too. But you DID say movies? Welcome to the world of make believe!


Mon Apr 07, 2008 5:08 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
Actually there are lot of obese people in US, the movies only show the good side of life :)
and cars made in US are used in movies to promote US cars :)

Most of the Hollywood movies show disgust to the french, I wonder why is that? :P There is even a movie called "Slap her, she is french" :D


Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:12 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
Oh cool I did the same thing to learn english as you did only I speak spanish now I speak Spanish and English perfectly now I am in 9th grade in high school and I am learning French! Je parle pue le francais! J'habite dans New Jersey!



PS: Not all of those are truth
PSS: Some peolple here also stereo type french because in my school kid talk about woman not shaving and that they pass a bit of your personal space mostly what "R3D SKORP1ON" said (he is one who anwser your question on top of me. Or how you guys do it <>


Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:14 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
you need to watch more movie and be real


Fri Apr 25, 2008 5:15 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
Very nice English, you have learned well!

Your facts in order.
1. Phones are actually shrinking now.
2. Cops used to only be able to eat donuts at night, because those were the only places open. Now food establishments stay open later, and they get other things.
3. I wish that was true, but teens drink a lot of beer.
4. Lots of fat people here, big problem (no pun intended).
5. Smoking is not as bad as it once was, but there is still a lot of it.
6. lol, cops and taxis are very different now.

so most of those are false.


Sun May 11, 2008 5:14 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
1.some prefer small, the bigger ones usually are cameras or music players too
2.pretty much
3.false!
4.lots of obesity
5.alot of smoking but most places dont allow it in a restraunt
6. I have no idea


Fri Jun 06, 2008 5:17 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
this is very funny!
okay. we dont have huge phones, cops DO eat donuts, teenagers DO drink beer (some), there ARE fat people (fattest country in the world!), people smoke a LOT, and yes cops/taxis are ford crown victoria. the only right thing.
bonne chance! i am learning french! je ne pas tres bonne mais je suis etudie beaucoup a l'ecole et j'aime le francais. Mon pere est francais mais il n'est pas parler avec moi en francais. ce pas bon. my french is horrible!


Sat Jun 14, 2008 5:18 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
The phones are REALLY small now because of better technology.
not all cops eat donuts but if they want they can.
teenagers always drink beer.
there are alot of fat people.
People smoke.
and i dont know what you mean by the last one.

salut


Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:19 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
Lol. In my opinion...

Our cell phones are getting smaller all the time.
The donut stereotype is out-dated.
Teenagers drink lots of beer in the Midwest.
There are way more "fat" people in the US now than there was in say, 1950, 60, or probably even 70.
Too many people smoke. My mom just died from lung cancer, Im 21.
Cops cars used to be Crown Vic's long ago....at least around where I grew up.

That was a cool question, lol.


Tue Jul 08, 2008 5:23 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
lol...I'm most impressed. Here I thought everyone in France just smokes and obsesses about their superiority, while periodically putting down their pastis and popping out of the cafe and onto a scooter in order to have either an endearing old man/much younger woman relationship or an adorable menage a trois (sorry, can't find the accent doodahs here) with several noisy explosions and a comic sidekick and an angry farmer chasing the macho yet troubled detective up the road after catching him in the haystack with his highly prosthetized young spouse, while the sun glints langourously through the bare trees of the Tuilleries and oh, Claire, we were much younger then...

so it's great to see a young french person putting down that baguette and going to the movies to get some gen-u-ine American culture! Well done!


Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:26 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA none of these are true lol!


Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:21 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
You write in English very well for someone who doesn't speak the language.


Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:21 am
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Post Re: hi guys, I'm french and I used to watch american movies in order to learn english?
Then would we be correct is assuming that:

1) French women dont shave,

2) The French Are rude (you seem to fit this)

3) French People Hate Americans (you seem to fit this too, interesting)

4) French People Stink.

5) All French People Smoke Cigarettes.

6) French Toilets are Disgusting

7) The French are cowards who can't fight for themselves (WWI and WWII)


Sat Jul 26, 2008 5:28 am
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