@Aurxliie@Thomas_Sanfourche wow, these are very different from what i constructed on my own which is "je seulement parle un peu français car j'ai seulement été étudie depuis 3 ans" lol can you tell me what's wrong here

p.s. i just guessed hahaha

eilerua

27 Aug 2018

French (France)
English (UK) Near fluent

Technically you could also say something like : "Je parle seulement un peu français, car j’étudie seulement depuis 3 semaines", which is closer to your first idea, i think :)

The point is, there is the repetition of the same adverb "seulement" here. That’s why finding another way to express this idea enables your sentence to sound a little bit better :)

Then, i also changed the tenses of your sentence for it to be more correct :)

But this is just my view, and i think you would have been understood by a french native speaker, because the idea was there :)

Ps : Be careful, cause in french the adverb goes after the verb, which is different from english i think :)

For example : i ONLY love sport = j’aime SEULEMENT le sport
I ALWAYS eat a lot = je mange TOUJOURS énormément
I NEVER sleep = je ne dors JAMAIS

Also, week is translated by semaine and year by an :)

I hope this can help :)

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migul30

27 Aug 2018

English (US) Near fluent
Filipino

@Aurxliie so how do you express the phrase "i've only been studying" do you usually just use the present form?

eilerua

27 Aug 2018

French (France)
English (UK) Near fluent

@migul30 "J’ai seulement étudié"
If u want to use a past tense :)

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migul30

27 Aug 2018

English (US) Near fluent
Filipino

@Aurxliie thank you very much!

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How do you say this in French (France)? i only speak a little french because i've only been studying it for 3 weeks.

How do you say this in French (France)? i only speak a little french because i've only been studying it for 3 weeks. See a translation

Je ne parle qu’un petit peu français, car je l’étudie seulement depuis 3 semaines

Je ne parle que très peu français en raison du fait que je ne l’étudie que depuis trois semaines.

@Thomas_Sanfourche Est-ce que t’essaierais pas de me faire concurrence par hasard 😭 Et cette fois c’est ta version qui a le plus de mérite 😂

@Aurxliie Peut-être 😏, en tout cas on ne peut pas en dire autant de la précédente 😂

@Thomas_Sanfourche Elle était pourtant pas si mal que ça 😂 Et l’important c’est que la personne puisse choisir la version qu’elle préfère 😌

@Aurxliie C’est l’idée oui 😊

@migul30 "J’ai seulement étudié"If u want to use a past tense :)

How do you say this in French (France)? i only speak a little french because i've only been studying it for 3 weeks.

@migul30 "J’ai seulement étudié"
If u want to use a past tense :)