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@ Tollorin

That's written in French lol, I know as much as je, tu, il, elle, bonjour ...

@ traven

What are the dinosaur and monkey saying?
What do these phrases "si le ridicule ne tue pas et si ce qui ne tue pas rend plus fort", "alors le ridicule rend plus fort?!", "vas y i't'ecoute" mean?

It's a take-off on a well-known expression: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

So, roughly translating:

si le ridicule ne tue pas - if ridicule does not kill

et si ce qui ne tue pas rend plus fort - and if what doesn't kill makes (me) stronger

alors le ridicule rend plus fort?! - therefore ridicule makes (me) stronger

vocabulary:

si - if
le ridicule - ridicule, note using "le"
tue - verb tuer, kill - in this case it's made negative by ne...pas
et - and
rend - verb, makes - (perhaps better as "renders" but we don't say that, but it's not like make a cake), infinitive is rendre
plus - more
fort - strong (plus fort : stronger)

I hope this helps somehow.

"vas y i't'ecoute" - I'm not sure what this means, only in the sense of it being in the vernacular, a casual expression between young boys telling each other to drop off.

The expression "vas y" is useful - vas means go and y sorta means there - in English it would be "Get out!" as in "I don't believe you"

the infinitive of vas is aller (to go)
je vais
tu vas
il vas
elle vas
nous allons
vous aller
ils vont
elles vont

It's tricky but very very handy.

vas-y; go ahead, in you form
je t'ecoute; I'm listening to you

il,elle va
- verbs tend, from one language to another, to not exactely translate one verb in another
aller - to go, and can be also used as a simple form of future (like going to)
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/aller

Où vas-tu ? Where are you going?
(Comment) ça va ? How are you ? litt. How is it going ?
Comment ça marche ? How does it work ?

correction: va instead of vas for il and elle

We need more caffeine. Let's try this espresso granita with whipped cream.

Mais non, mais non, faut pas

Le français, c'est idéal pour emballer, hu hu hu...

"Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose".

To get you more confused...

I am sorry if it sounded like a joke but I really meant to encourage Drawyer.
What I meant was that French is a great langage.

Wow, thank you very much, LaMereLoi.

You are welcome.

More French-speaking people is good news to me...as long as the production of cheese increases accordingly ^_^

Tu as décidé de créer ce fil comme une débutante du français ?

Bien sûr mon français est aussi sans pratique mais peut-être je peux le recommencer...

^ lol English pls. You know google translate is bad.

You decided to create this thread as a beginner in French ?
Although my own French is of course a bit rusty but maybe I can resume...

Are you really trying to learn other language ? I will give you the fastest method to speaking fluenty (does not necessarily teach you grammar which I feel is best learned from academic-institutions). All you need to do is think up a category that is of frequent interest to you (and I don't mean solely using the language itself as the interest, but something that you would actually have conversations with, things that compel you do study and research on your own, etc).

For example, I am frequently interested in a number of documentaries, particularly the ones that expose conspiratorial-elements in society. Therefore, I would look for a documentary with appropriate sub-titles, and start from the beginning, replaying each sentence until I can auto-translate from either French-to-English or English-to-French in my mind upon hearing it being said in either language. For pronounciation's sake, and key listening practice, you are better off finding a film that speaks French with English sub-titles. For reading and spelling skills, you would go the other way around, such as with the following clip...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsQhQTyOKMI&loop=12&start=39:02&end=39:15
Just replay the same sentence over and over until it becomes natural then move on to the next sentence. This is the fastest study method that I currently know for gaining rapid fluency if you just repeat it all day long every day (next closest simulation to living in a French-speaking country itself). Some other things you can do is switch your music to French-only, play video-games in French-only, configure your key-board so that you're only typing with the standard French-configuration AZERTY keyboard, install all of your computer-software in French, switch your Skype/Browser/Search-Engine/etc., language/location to French, only install programs/apps/software in French, configure your You-Tube/gMail-Accounts to display only in French, search & buy products in French via using the French-language key-words for the products that you might be looking to order on-line, actively translate your e-mails into French, run your thoughts in French (such that you are only using French even when having dreams/etc).

Mais bordel le de merde, c'est quoi ce comportement passif-agressif?
Est-ce que c'est vraiment impossible d'avoir une discussion amicale?