04.04.07 teach someone french in 1864 difficult lessons

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- So if you do an action TO someone, you add “le” before the verb. For example, I watch him is Je le regarde.

- Ok, so… “I tell him” is “Je le dis”.

- Uh, no, it’s “Je lui dis”

- Ok but I do the action of telling TO him.

- Hm. “Le” in “Je le dis” refers to what you say, not whom you say it to.

- …

- Hey! Let me show you that sneezing panda on YouTube!

 (Damn you wordpress!!!! How can I do carriage returns in this editor???)

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  1. Comment by Irv Washington on 04.04.07 at 11:46 pm

    All i’ve figured out (regarding carriage returns) is adding the old-school “br” html tag at the point you want the return.

  2. Comment by Evan Prodromou on 05.04.07 at 12:38 am

    There may be some languages where there’s not a difference between the direct and indirect object, but I haven’t met one yet. “I gave him it” is regular ol’ English. We can handle the sticky parts of French, really!

  3. Comment by keyofd on 05.04.07 at 2:26 pm

    Wordpress made the carriage returns work properly again in a later version than the one you are running.

    I too found this very frustrating at the time and had to use br to compensate.

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