{"id":24495,"date":"2016-09-07T14:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=24495"},"modified":"2016-09-06T21:52:22","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:52:22","slug":"do-you-know-how-to-write-like-a-native","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/do-you-know-how-to-write-like-a-native\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Know How To Write Like A Native?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Knowing the words for punctuation<\/a> is hard, but the problems don’t end there. You also have to learn all the small differences in how they are used in French<\/a>. After that, talking about l\u2019\u00e9criture<\/strong> (writing) itself is a new challenge. All those years in k-12 education<\/a> learning about grammar may not be useful when you need to write in French!<\/p>\n

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Image<\/a> by Patrick Gaudin<\/a> on Flickr. Licensed under CC BY 2.0.<\/p><\/div>\n

While writing mon m\u00e9moire<\/strong><\/a> I\u2019ve had to look up how to say many things. I\u2019ve also had to find out how to talk about l’\u00e9criture<\/strong> itself. C’est-\u00e0-dire<\/strong> (that is to say), I needed to know how to say words like, une phrase, un paragraphe, un sujet, un pr\u00e9dicat, etc<\/strong> (a sentence, a paragraph, a subject, a predicate, etc).<\/p>\n

Once you know le vocabulaire<\/strong> (the vocabulary), and can talk about what you have written, there’s another problem. The hardest thing to understand as a non-native speaker is how something can be grammatically correct, but sound strange.<\/p>\n

Many of les corrections<\/strong> I receive are about making something I wrote into une phrase qui sonne naturelle<\/strong> (a sentence that sounds natural). Whenever I write in French, I ask un francophone natif<\/strong> (a native French speaker) if what I wrote sonne naturel<\/strong> (sounds natural).<\/p>\n

Ce processus<\/strong> (this process) of figuring out how to talk about l\u2019\u00e9criture<\/strong> and ce qui sonne naturel<\/strong> is all part of la \u00a0<\/strong> (proofreading).<\/p>\n

Other than des phrases qui sonnent bizarres<\/strong> (sentences that sound strange), the other big advantage of la relecture<\/strong> is finding les fautes d\u2019orthographes<\/strong> (typos, spelling mistakes). All that is hard enough dans ma langue maternelle<\/strong> (in my native language), but in French it is la catastrophe assur\u00e9e<\/strong> (a recipe for disaster).<\/p>\n

I\u2019m thankful for toutes ces corrections<\/strong> (all these corrections) !<\/p>\n

Surtout <\/strong>(above all), because without them mon m\u00e9moire<\/strong> would be full of des fautes d\u2019orthographes<\/strong>, but also because it helps me improve my French!<\/p>\n

Voici un vocabulaire de la relecture :<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Image by patricia m<\/a> on Flickr. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.<\/p><\/div>\n

La relecture – Proofreading
\nLes fautes d’orthographges – Typos, spelling mistakes
\nL’\u00e9criture – Writing
\nLa phrase – Sentence
\nLe paragraphe – Paragraph
\nLe sujet – Subject
\nL’objet – Object
\nLe pr\u00e9dicat – Predicate
\nLe vocabulaire – Vocabulary
\nLe francophone natif – Native French speaker
\nSonner naturel – To sound natural
\nLa catastrophe assur\u00e9e – A recipe for disaster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Knowing the words for punctuation is hard, but the problems don’t end there. You also have to learn all the small differences in how they are used in French. After that, talking about l\u2019\u00e9criture (writing) itself is a new challenge. All those years in k-12 education learning about grammar may not be useful when you…<\/p>\n

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