So juju found one of those typical online quiz that lures you into sharing it on Facebook (although in this case it's optional), and it's a quiz to see how good is your French. It says basic French but some questions are more tricky. Anyway I thought I would share it on the forums because not only we have many French people around here but also some answers in the quiz are just completely hilarious (and sometimes NSFW).
http://offbeat.topix.com/quiz/17562?utm_source=facebook-share&utm_campaign=17562&utm_medium=itemphoto
Even if you only know basic French it might be worth trying for you :)
There was on those sponsored ads in my Facebook feed I did it with my brother we made oh so many jokes about the answers, we really had a good laugh. Mostly because we're native French speakers but even for someone who don't speak French it's pretty interesting :)
Well the quiz is for non-French people, after all. But some of those people with basic French knowledge might nonetheless find some of the answers funny or be inclined to translate them once they finished the test, just for laughs. As a French person, though, it was even funnier :P
http://offbeat.topix.com/quiz-result/17562?tr=quiz/quiz-result/17562////,1472817363,9ywfam
It was actually not that hard. Some of the suggested answers were indeed weird though.
Some of the questions are not easy, like "Avoir un poil dans la main" (I do know some French people who don't know what this sentence mean).
I could test my French and I made only one mistake, phew! :P
Yeah I couldn't answer that one right. It's not something I ever heard in Quebec.
Looks like I'm pretty good at understanding French
QuoteFinish this sequence: "un, deux, trois..."
-Quatre
-Sept
-Nuit
-Cinq
1) this is not a sentence.
2) I don't know, the roots of (X-1)(X-2)(X-3)(X-7) are 1,2,3,7, so maybe that's what they're talking about.
QuoteWhat does this mean: "Aidez-mois, s'il vous plaît!"
This doesn't mean c. Remove an 's' and we can talk.
The answer I got wrong was the one about wine. I don't drink alcohol a and that's not really "Basic French" wtf -.-
All that proved is that I can use google translate... :P
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on September 02, 2016, 04:31:13 PM
Yeah I couldn't answer that one right. It's not something I ever heard in Quebec.
Yeah, I did hear it at least once, but it's not really something we say, indeed.
Also how do we say goodbye
JE TE DÉTESTE
(litt. I hate you)
Quote from: Epharius on September 02, 2016, 02:53:43 PM
Some of the questions are not easy, like "Avoir un poil dans la main" (I do know some French people who don't know what this sentence mean).
I could test my French and I made only one mistake, phew! :P
woot
I've always heard that phrase :P
(or variations on it, like a teacher saying "C'est même plus un poil que t'as dans la main, c'est un palmier")
I dropped french in highschool for German. Other than that our school gave a lot of homework for French i have German speaking family. Not that i can talk German really good now, im bad in languages other than programming languages :P
heil mien fuhrer
ohh c wrong language
QuoteYour Score: 65%
Comme ci comme ça
Your French is so-so. You might be able to get around in France with a little help here and there.
Yeah. Right. :P
Quote from: Adriweb on September 02, 2016, 05:14:56 PM
Quote from: Epharius on September 02, 2016, 02:53:43 PM
Some of the questions are not easy, like "Avoir un poil dans la main" (I do know some French people who don't know what this sentence mean).
I could test my French and I made only one mistake, phew! :P
woot
I've always heard that phrase :P
(or variations on it, like a teacher saying "C'est même plus un poil que t'as dans la main, c'est un palmier")
I've heard "un baobab". :P
The funny thing with the quiz is that sometimes, several answers were good, but sadly it only accepted the main translation :trollface:
39/40. C'est très bien. J'ai seulement 15,8/20 dans mon bac.
Mon francaise est terrible.
Apres l'ecole j'etait beau au parler "Pardon madame, est-ce que je peut allez au toilette?" et "je ne sais pas"... ^^
La francaise n'est pas ma langue preferee ^^
*Whenever I'm in Strassbourg the French guys understand me ways better even on German than on French... <_<
Omlette du Fromage! Kevin Poulet!
Your Score: 90%
Tres bien!
Votre français est magnifique! Très bien!
Speaking of which, it reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K4aTlsC8zM
I thought I would end up with a terrible score since I know essentially no French, but the skill level that was needed was a lot lower than I expected, so I got 79% in the end. Some of the questions were relatively simple to answer by just looking at the possible options and comparing with other languages I know. Don't expect me to be able to pronounce anything of what I picked, though :P
Well, actually, even a french 3-year-old would get 100% at this dumb test :trollface:
Quote from: STV on September 04, 2016, 01:16:15 PM
Well, actually, even a french 3-year-old would get 100% at this dumb test :trollface:
I doubt a 3-year-old can make the difference between apple juice and (yellow (yes, I said "yellow", because anyone calling that "white" needs glasses)) wine.
can anymoe maybe tell me who Kevin Poulet is... ???
/me feels stupid
Now I know where that Kevin Poulet thing came from :P
Also the thing with this test is that many of the pictures are completely misleading on purpose, probably to catch people who falls easily for clickbait.