why is french considered the "romantic language"? if so, does it work?
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'Romantic language" refers to its origins in latin. Latin was combined with various celtic languages such as Iberian, Brenton, Gaulian, Goth, etc. There are 4 accepted "Romantic Languages": French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.\n\nit is just like romantic literature. "Modern romance" is your gushy love stories. A "classic" or "true" romance is an adventure story worthy of pleasing the old Roman gods, such as the battles of Julius Caesar in Gaulia (modern France).
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Yes it is a turn on....but I am not sure if it would be attractive....but definately Romantic....There is nothing like whispering sweet nothings in Espanol...After all...spanish is one the Romance languages...just like French is too....
418069
well French is not my mother tongue and I learned it in my twenties. I feel in English and that is why it means more to me as I can understnd every nuance. I will go so far though to say that sometimes something will be said or sung in French that just touches my soul.
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I think singers who sing in English do (for the most part) a great job in expressing love & romance. Maybe you don't understand English well enough to notice the subtleties! I find foreign songs can be romantic too, but you can't generalise like that.\nI'm English (not American) & proud to be so & can name hundreds of English & American singers who put across emotion really well.\n\nP.S The La Belle song is "Voulez vous couche avec moi ce soir" & not what you typed.
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Tough question. And hard to explain. Indeed, something that has been discussed for over two thousand years.\nGoing to the basics of contemporary linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure made a distinction between language and speaking (even though they depend on each other)or langue et parole in french . He considered language the conventional system used for communication and speaking as the personal uses, changes and meanings for an individual. When this personal changes or intermissions from other languages get to the conventional system, language is modified; so, we make use of the system and we modify it from the inside.\nThis is a theory brought up in the beginning of 20th century and has been largely discussed and changed over the years; still, it sets some general characteristics of language.\nIn any case, as language is something we can not grab on the entirely as it is constantly modifying, we could even believe that has a life of its own, which sounds to "mystical" for me: I'd rather believe it flows as we flow.
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I'm sorry... But I barely understand French... I give it a try though! It might not make since... I get my words confused! I should probly stick to The USA version of Y!A. ha ha!\n\n\n simple je le lui dit et de visu pour sentir sa réaction
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I am a native english speaker and have no problem, but i have learned french 10 years ago and speak french every day, and i still have problems with this kind of thing in french. I constantly translate the english preposition etc into french where it doesn't work the same.  maybe you get stuck with your native language's way of doing things.
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bonjour , c'est une très bonne idée. Le français est une belle langue bien que sa grammaire soit complexe. Si tu veux te familiariser avec le français, écoutes des bons chanteurs comme Charles Trénet, Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré. Il faut surtout bien articuler. Bon courage!!
635442
Yes they mean less in a foreign language.  My girlfriend and I speak different languages natively, so we alternate on whether we speak of love in her language or in my language.  That way we both get to say and hear the words that mean the most to us.
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i like giving french kisses and when me and my huns tongues kinda play with each other hehe...its away of being intimate with each other...and yes we are still together...to me even a simple cheek kiss can have so much feeling...i guess its the way we kiss each other =]
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you make the assumption that the lyrics have the same meaning in each language.\n\nThey may share the same sentiment, but one line of a  love song in French may say that her eyes are beautiful, but the same line in English may mean he can't stop thinking about her.\n\nHow's that?
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I would say probably because of the French influence, and our late relative lack of it.  We are losing much of the arts that the French still hold dear.  After I took French in High School, my English spelling was a bit awry, just as you pointed out.  I do love the flow of the French language, though.\n\nSincerely,\n\nProdigal Son
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i don't know much, but do u know about the "French Kiss"? in France, they don't kiss like that, they actually call that the "English Kiss"
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The best way to learn any language is to match yourself up with a tutor who is a native speaker of the language you want to learn and is of the opposite sex.  There does not have to be any romantic chemistry, but people learn languages better from people of the opposite sex because they tend to watch their lips more.  Concentrate on conversation about things you want, learning from books and doing drills and exercises is simply ineffective.
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Cuz french has become an Icon of romanticism and love, when in fact Italians are more devoted to romaticism than french, anyway many people melt down when they hear someone speaking to them french as they find it sexy.
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If you start trying to figure the origin of English spelling, you will drive yourself mad in no time.  Go back more than a couple of hundred years and spelling was not very standardized.  Judging by what I see in Yahoo Answers, go forward a few years, and standardization will be gone.\n\nGenerally, English is not spelled the way it sounds, like Spanish and some other languages.  But the fault is not (directly) with Latin, because Latin was (as far as we know) much more consistent in pronunciation.  That's why so-called romance languages (languages like Spanish) are much more consistent than English, which has adapted words from many, many different languages.\n\nRE: romance languages.  How does French fit into this?  The French only pronounce about half their letters!
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How did the last person who answered this  . . . get arythmia???!!!  Ha, . . .ha ha ha .?! Huh, .. What? ;) \n\nI'm not chastising .  BUT HEY!  AMERICA!  LET'S GET FOREIGN LANGUAGE BACK IN OUR SCHOOL CURRICULA . .  OKAY?  DAMN. \n\nThat's scarey.  Couldn't that person tell it was a foreign language?\n\nSo yeah deliciously  it is Stop! you person (polite only?) or persons!  COMMAND FORM or IMPERATIF (imperative)  AAhh THE FRENCH LANGUAGE  like a outer galactic feast.\n\nThe images that come to my mind when I speak French.  It's heaven on earth.  \n\nI see fields of subtitles, cute French professors, bewildered language deficient but cute male fellow students that only see me as even more attractive because I now haold even more allure because of my ability with language, I see Language learning labs, A+ papers, gleaming transcripts, european field/abroad trips (woouldn't call it study trips because it was more just a 'trip', and I say to \nmyself . . . this is heaven on earth . . .Let me just say that my Wernicke's area IS the pleasure center of my brain!\n\nThank You GOD.