Hi all!

[Mark F.]

Hi there, my name is Mark and I live in France, near Paris. I lived in England till the age of 10, now I'm 20 and am studying cinema.
I read quite a bit, over the past year and a half I've probably read over 50 books of all sorts. Some of my favorite novels would be A Farewell to Arms by Hemmingway, 1984 by Orwell and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Dick.
I look forward to discussing with you all on the forum.

[Logos]

Allo! :wave:

[Bongitybongbong]

Hi. Welcome to the forum...it's really fun here and stuff.

[wanderlust_ox]

Welcome to the forum! I want to go to Paris. I'm learning some french. Actually I've been learning french since I was 11, but my teachers were horrible, so I didn't really learn anything. Hopefully by the end of the next school year I'll be partially fluent and maybe take a trip to Europe after I graduate.

[mono]

Hello, Mark F., welcome the forum. How pleasant for you to join us.
Yes, wanderlust, I studied French for some time also, and still remain partially fluent, having the ability to read and translate most things, but a little slow in conversation. :p

[Nightshade]

hello
:wave:

[Koa]

Hi, wow cool so you are practically bilingual?
I studied French for 8 years and recently brushed it back cos I wanted tot ake as 3rd langauge something quick.. and I do remember more than I thought, I'm still able to talk somehow and last year I managed to read some French books in original, to my surprise.
Welcome :banana:

[Émilie]

Bienvenue/Welcome to the Forum. Wow a lot of us speak french!

[Mark F.]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.
Yep I'm bilingual, apart from talking reading is probably the most efficient way of learning a foreign language. Especially for enhancing your vocab. That's how I managed not to forget my English.

[~K~]

Welcome and remember what Goethe said ( a poor paraphased rendition by me because I cannot remember the exact quote), but he makes a similar comment in order to understand your own language you must know another one. Someone please feel free to quote it correctly. I only mentioned this because the topic of knowing more than one language came up.

[Ranoo]

hi there ,

Welcome

[RJbibliophil]

Welcome! :wave: I see you are enjoying the forum already. :D

And congrats to Ranoo on 100 posts. :banana:

[ShoutGrace]

Am I in the twilight zone? Wasn't this thread started more than a year ago? :confused: What possessed Ranoo to post in this one again???

Second on the congrats, though. :D