en français s'il vous plaît!

it's been 16 years since i've moved to ontario now, and since then i've been slowly losing my french bit by bit. my quebecois accent started to fade, and that nasty anglophone accent started to spread its cancer into my words and sentences to the point now if i spoke french, no one would even know that i grew up in quebec.

language and the mind are crazy things. chinese was my first language and french was my second. so years ago, my mind thought in chinese and french. in fact, i still count in chinese instead of english since the number system in chinese is a lot simpler and faster than english. and because mind thought in chinese and french, my anglophone friends who made it into my dreams would speak in chinese and french. it was the weirdest thing when i woke up. but at the time of the dream it felt totally normal spoke my native tongue.

sadly, nowadays my mind thinks predominantly in english. my brain's language use is partitioned at this ratio: 80% english, 18% chinese, and 2% french. it's weird. there are certain words that i'm used to that i still say in french instead of english like dépanneur and valise.

i've realized that a language gets lost 10x faster than it gets learned. and as you get older, you get busier. i mean, who has time to learn another language when you got loans and taxes to pay off? and even if you had the time, with technology and media these days, you'd probably rather spend that time on youtube or blogger anyways right?

so with the realization that my french has gone downhill, it's made me want to relearn it, since i've got a pretty good base already. and since i spend so much time on the computer and i don't get much of a chance to speak french, it made me think of a great idea and exercise for myself.

once a week, one of my posts will be in french. i realize that only a couple of you will understand my french posts, but hey, maybe it'll motivate you to learn some french too. who wouldn't want to learn french anyway? c'est la langue d'amour, non? <3



transformers in quebec that i used to watch. i was so crazy about this show.




ninja turtles intro in french. woke up every saturday morning just to catch "les tortues ninjas" en français.