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Posted in General Info on Aug 28th, 2017
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Posted in French, General Info on Mar 6th, 2017
This week in class we reviewed numbers. English speakers usually find French numbers to be difficult to remember and say quickly, especially higher numbers. This website is useful to review: http://www.woodwardfrench.com/lesson/numbers-from-1-to-100-in-french/
We talked about how numbers might come up in conversation:
Quelle âge as-tu?
J’ai trente ans.
Dans quelle année es-tu né?
Je suis né en 1986. (mille neuf cent quatre-vingt-six)
Quelle heure est-il?
Il est 4h45. (quatre heures quarante-cinq)
Good numbers to know are: the year you were born, the current year, and how old you are!
Nous sommes en 2017 (deux mille dix-sept).
There are two ways to say years. Take 1992, for example:
Posted in French, General Info on Mar 1st, 2017
Week 0- the basics (1)
Français | Anglais | Exemple=Example |
Pronoms | Pronoums | |
Je
Tu Il/elle/on Nous Vous Ils/elles
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I
You He/she/ colloquial ”we” We You They (masc/femin) |
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Questions | Questions | Common rule (like englih): Question+verbe+pronom |
Qui ?
Que? Quand Où ? Comment ? Pourquoi ? Quel(s) Quelle(s) Quoi ? Qu’est-ce-que? Est-ce que? |
Who?
What? When? Where? How? Why? Which? (masc) Which? (femin) What? What is? Is it? |
Qui es-tu? = Who are you?
Que veux-tu? =What do you want ? Quand arrives-tu? =When do you arrive Ou es-tu? =Where are you? Comment vas-tu? = How are you? Pourquoi pas? = why not? Quel est le tien= which one is yours? Quelle heure est-il?= what time is it? C’est quoi? = what is it? Qu’est-ce-que c’est? = what is it? Est ce que c’est vrai ? = is it true ? |
Phonétiques | Phonetics | Like |
Ou | /u/
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Oui (eng=we) |
Oi | /wa/
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Moi (eng= mwa) |
On/om | /ɔ̃/
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Bonjour (listen at link below) http://www.wordreference.com/fren/on |
O/au/eau | /o/
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Beau (eng= bo) |
È/ai/être | /ɛ/
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Air (eng=air)
Belle àDisney princess |
É/ez/er/et | /ˈɛ̃/
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Hey or Beyoncé |
E/eu/oeu | /ʒ/ /ø/ | Je àJe m’appelle or voeux or veux
Or le monsieur (“on” exception) http://www.wordreference.com/fren/monsieur |
An/am/en/em | /ɑ̃/ | Enfant or emploi or encore |
In/im/ain/aim/ein | /ɛ̃/ | (j’ai)Faim or bien or plein
http://www.wordreference.com/fren/faim |
Un | /œ̃, yn/ | Défunt or emprunt |
Pronunciation is key: practice it by looking up words in the example section or others at http://www.wordreference.com/
Week 1- the basics (2)
Auxiliaire ETRE (To be)
o Je suis o Tu es o Il/elle/on est o Nous sommes o Vous êtes o Ils/elles sont
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Auxiliaire AVOIR (to have)
o J’ai o Tu as o Il/elle/on a o Nous avons o Vous avez o Ils/elles ont
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o Je m’appelle…
o J’ai …ans o J’étudie…/je n’étudie pas je travaille à o Je viens de/je suis de… |
o My name is…
o I am… years old o I study…/ I do not study I work at o I come from/I am from… |
Posted in General Info, Hebrew on Mar 1st, 2017
Posted in General Info on Mar 1st, 2017
Posted in General Info on Mar 1st, 2017
Today in class with the help of the textbook, we began learning the letters and their orthography.
*Note: the last one is /ae/ sound as in cat.
Extra Resources!
www.aparat.com
www.iranproud.com
www2.live.irib.
www.aparat.com
www.imvbox.com
www.bia2.com
www.radiojavan.com
www.tabnak.com
www.vimeo.com
www2.live.irib.ir
www.iranitv.com
www.hamedtv.com
list of singer! • Bijan Mortazavi • Moein • Mehrshad • 7th band • Mansour • Kamran & Hooman • Andy • 2afm • Shadmehr Aghili • Hayedeh • Googoosh • Leila Foroohar • Arash • Omid • Jamshid • Shahram Shabpare • Afshin • Carlo Venti • Benyamin • Black cats • Arian band • Maziar Falahi
Posted in American Sign Language, French, General Info, German, Mandarin, Spanish on Feb 16th, 2017
FYI: Holland Center and Morse are right next to each other on Van Buren St.
Monday:
Advanced Arabic 3:00- 3:50 pm Holland Center
Conversational Arabic 4:00- 4:50 pm Holland Center
Beginning Spanish 5:00-5:50 pm Morse B207
Intermediate Japanese 5:00- 5:50pm Morse B107
Intermediate Chinese 6:00- 6:50 pm Morse A201
Tuesday:
All Levels Farsi 12:00- 12:50 pm Morse A200
Beginning German 4:00- 4:50 pm Morse B108
Beginning Japanese 6:00- 6:50 pm Morse A201
Wednesday:
Beginning Arabic 4:00- 4:50 pm Morse A2o2
Advanced Chinese 4:00- 4:50 pm Morse A200
Intermediate Spanish 5:00- 5:50 pm Morse B107
Intermediate Korean 5:00- 5:50 pm Morse A202
All Levels Hebrew 6:00- 6:50 pm Morse B107
All Levels Tagalog 6:00- 6:50 pm Morse A201
Beginning Kazakh 6:30- 7:20 pm Morse A202
Beginning Korean 7:00- 7:50 pm Morse A201
Intermediate Arabic 7:00- 7:50 pm Morse A101
Thursday:
Intermediate French 4:00- 4:50 Morse A200
Conversational French 4:00-4:50 TBA
Friday:
Beginning Chinese 9:00- 9:50 am Morse A200
American Sign Language 2:00-2:50 pm Morse A200
Intermediate Russian 4:00- 4:50 pm Morse A200
All Levels Cantonese 5:00- 5:50 pm Morse B107
Saturday:
Beginning French 11:00- 11:50 am Morse B107
Posted in General Info on Sep 12th, 2016
Thank you for checking out the BUILD blog! At the moment BUILD is experiencing limited administrative membership. For that reason, we have decided to ask all interested parties to look to our Facebook page, B.U.I.L.D. for information about classes, which are scheduled to begin the first week of October. You are also more than welcome to send questions to build@miis.edu.
If you are interested in becoming involved in BUILD in an administrative capacity, we would love to hear from you! Please email us at the address above. Please note that there might be a delay in response as we are again working with a small administrative team at the moment.
Again, thank you so much for your interest in BUILD!
Posted in General Info on Feb 25th, 2012
السلام عليكم
كيف الحال؟ مراجعة للدرس الثاني
this is a short review of what we covered in our 2nd class on Friday:
Numbers الارقام
1 واحد
2 اثنان
3 ثلاثة
4 اربعة
5 خمسة
ستة6
7 سبعة
8 ثمانية
9 تسعة
10 عشرة
the Present tense الفعل المضارع
أ ن ي ت
أ / انا = (انا) اقرأ رواية
ن/ نحن = (نحن) نتكلم العربية
ت/ هي – انتَ = هي تذهب الى البيت/ انت تذهب الى السوق
ي/ هو = (هو) يكتب على اللوحة
بعض المفردات ومعانيها
يطير= fly
يسافر=travel
يتكلم = speak
يتعلم= learn
يستيقظ= get up/ wake up
شكرا . اراكم في الاسبوع القادم
the next week Inshallah we will continue with and practice the present tense and see if we will have time for alittle bit of future.
مع السلامة