{"id":1892,"date":"2022-06-08T15:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/?p=1892"},"modified":"2022-06-08T15:35:41","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:35:41","slug":"language-le-francais-familier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/sla2022\/2022\/06\/08\/language-le-francais-familier\/","title":{"rendered":"Language: Le Fran\u00e7ais Familier:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Adjusting to life in a foreign country<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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My morning commute starts with walking 15 seconds to the bus stop, where I have a direct view of Mont Saint Victoire (far left). In the foreground is an Optical Art museum, which I hope to visit at some point. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Having been in France for a week, I feel much more adjusted to living in a foreign country and immediately more comfortable with the region. Thinking and communicating in a different language has profoundly changed the way that I think about my own language and my own thoughts. Of course, there is always the question of the degree to which language frames thought, but I have been interested in the question of how we frame language, i.e. the particular aspects of language that change depending on the region and the speaker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I saw this poster at store in Marseille. Among its itemized vulgarities and regional expressions, I noticed examples of verlan and even some words that I learned in my classes here. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Un petit dictionnaire<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I have already grown attached to certain expressions used among young people, and I use the following almost daily:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

du coup: <\/strong>an elusively versatile filler word. In my interactions, I understand it to function like \u201cyou know\u201d, \u201clike\u201d, or \u201cso\u201d. I like to pepper my conversations with it in order to appear more natural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

c\u2019est styl\u00e9:<\/strong> \u201cstyl\u00e9\u201d is like an upgraded \u201ccool\u201d, but it carries a stronger connotation of sophistication or beauty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

un beau gosse:<\/strong> an attractive young man. I aim to receive this compliment when I put on a good outfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

une meuf:<\/strong> an example of verlan, the practice of reversing the syllables of words to give them a more colloquial meaning. In this case, \u201cfemme\u201d is reversed to be \u201cmme-fe\u201d or \u201cmeuf\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

l\u2019apero:<\/strong> a friendly gathering before going out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

wesh: <\/strong>an interrogative adverb derived from Algerian Arabic. It most closely corresponds to \u201cyo\u201d in American English and is used more frequently over text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

au taff<\/strong>: \u201cat work\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I anticipate learning more slang words and expressions as I interact more with people here, but I have been surprised at how easy it is to pick up these expressions without ever seeing them in writing. So far, the method of acquiring more French by brute-forcing my conversations, as gauche as it feels, has proven to be exceptionally valuable for expanding my vocabulary and increasing the fluidity with which I speak French.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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