Dialect
ECOOP 2006 takes place in France. French people speak a strange dialect called "french". Fortunately, the french language consists only of a few words which we list hereafter:
| French word | Meaning | |
|---|---|---|
| Every day | bonjour | good morning |
| au revoir | bye bye | |
| merci | thank you | |
| s'il vous plaît | please | |
| Sapristi ! | great heavens! | |
| Restaurant, shopping | la note | the bill |
| TTC | taxes included | |
| Note: the tip is always included | ||
| Traveling | la correspondance | connexion |
| le quai | platform | |
| toutes destinations | all destinations | |
| la douane | customs | |
| PAF | air & borders police | |
| TAN | Nantes bus company | |
| arrêt de tram | tram station | |
| arrêt de bus | bus station | |
| gare (gare SNCF) | train station | |
| Cité des Congrès | Conference Center |
On-line dictionaries
The CNRS and University Lyon 1 offer an English-French dictionary (which also provides synonyms).
BBC french lessons
An online beginner's course on the bbc website.
