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FraIre: Help
"Oh, Francis!" Patrick said. "Great timing. What's the French word for 'like'?"
Francis had just stepped into the room, on his way to the kitchen, but when he saw the phone in Patrick's hand he knew that he would be staying there for a while.
"In which context?" Francis asked. "Like as in 'I like you' or like as in 'you look like me"?"
"I like you," Patrick replied.
"For which person?"
"Um… the sentence is 'Duo likes pizza'."
"Aime. A-I-M-E."
Patrick tapped on his phone screen before the app's familiar chime told him that he was correct. He smiled.
"Merci beaucoup," Patrick said. "So, have you done your Irish yet?"
Francis winced. They were trying to learn each other's languages, but he kept forgetting to practise, while Patrick was very diligent.
"I'll do it later," he said. "For now, I need to get some water and start on dinner."
"Don't forget," Patrick said.
Francis could only vaguely nod. He had only recently managed to get in the mindset of considering Irish statements to be similar to the inversée. It was not an easy language to get the hang of.
My mom recently started learning French on Duolingo, and since I already know French, I end up helping her a lot. It's reached the point where I often have to hover around her when she's doing Duolingo, just in case.
I've attempted to learn Irish before. It was the first language that I can say intimidated me, and it was after I did a short course in Mandarin. The most intimidating part was the sentence structure, which is verb-subject-object, while the other languages I've attempted are all subject-verb-object. It took my brain a while to get in the mindset of thinking of statements as questions, which would usually have the verb before the subject. La question inversée is one of the ways to ask questions in French which involves the subject and the verb switching places, which is why Francis thinks about that.