little bitty girl

Have I already mentioned that Stefan and I have been pseudo studying French for our impending Paris trip in the Fall? I just think it's important that when you go to a foreign country that you learn some phrases in their mother tongue. Seems like it's the polite thing to do, that's all.

Anyway, French lessons are not going as well as I thought it would and I am kicking myself everyday for not continuing French throughout high school. Did I really need to have take two music classes, gym, every math, almost every science course offered for all those years? Especially since I knew from the get go, that I would never ever want a job in any field using those subjects? Oh, sometimes, I just wish I could go back in time and smack my teenage self at the back of the head.

But here I am, in the present, still stuck on the common verbs. The memorizing of what is feminine and masculine is driving me insane. Stef's been swimming along with his French podcasts and is already at lesson eight. I am still on lesson three, where they're talking about families and what they do for a living. I keep replaying the same podcasts while yelling at my computer, "Je ne comprend pas!"

So I decided that I would perhaps just learn some key phrases, other than the swear words I already know. (Funny how I can pick up almost instantaneously swear words from foreign languages in a pinch). I stumbled upon this site and here are some of my favourites that I felt I should share:

Tu as grossi - You've put on weight
Tu es completement debile - You're complete moron
Mon Dieu, que vos enfants sont laids - My God, your children are ugly
Voulez-vous cesser de me cracher dessus pendant que vous parlez! - Would you stop spitting on me, while you're talking!

Yup, I am sure this will get me very far.