A few of my favourite things (in French and Spanish)

[suyongli]

In my last post, I promised to write about some great things in French and Spanish. I'm sure there are things that speakers of these languages find fantastic about English, but being a native speaker I don't notice them as much. In any case, here are some of my favourite things that appear in French and Spanish:

Oui/Non/Si
French speakers are lucky

Comments

[goblinpaladin]

Oh, my, that is interesting.

[pappubahry]

You're not going to the shops today, are you?
Yeah no, I am!

[suyongli]

Yeah, nah, not today.

[xenelle]

I remember when I first learnt about si my first thought was 'but its spelt like if,damn I better get the answer right'

Though it also didn't hlp when my brain switched languages halfway through a conversation and I said 'Si' meaning yes in Italian as opposed to 'Oui' and had to apologise.