Dialect
ECOOP 2006 takes place in France. French people speak a strange dialect called "french". Fortunately, the french language consists only of a few words which we list hereafter:
French word | Meaning | |
---|---|---|
Every day | bonjour | good morning |
au revoir | bye bye | |
merci | thank you | |
s'il vous plaît | please | |
Sapristi ! | great heavens! | |
Restaurant, shopping | la note | the bill |
TTC | taxes included | |
Note: the tip is always included | ||
Traveling | la correspondance | connexion |
le quai | platform | |
toutes destinations | all destinations | |
la douane | customs | |
PAF | air & borders police | |
TAN | Nantes bus company | |
arrêt de tram | tram station | |
arrêt de bus | bus station | |
gare (gare SNCF) | train station | |
Cité des Congrès | Conference Center |
On-line dictionaries
The CNRS and University Lyon 1 offer an English-French dictionary (which also provides synonyms).
BBC french lessons
An online beginner's course on the bbc website.