@iamsoldana: It takes a special level of french to properly master the art of emailing in french. But really, why do their emails need ro be so flowery?! #frenchcultureshock #americaninparis #learningfrench #learnfrench #parisliving
The thing is that there's no way to be that concise in French. We don't have an equivalent for "Best" or "see attached" :(
2024-05-03 20:33:29
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Rissa’s Pieces :
But professional / corporate English is also lengthy and lofty
2024-05-03 23:47:58
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Ax :
Bruh this is just normal and professional why do ppl find anything to hate on
2024-05-04 16:31:32
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Cat :
can you say any more about this? I'm about to start a job that involves emailing in french 😭
2024-05-03 18:36:14
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Stephanie19748🇨🇦 :
As a Canadian I’m constantly asking myself, is this person im talking to mean, or just French. Sometimes hard to tell.
2024-05-04 21:01:14
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Lyndsey 💕 :
Agree - as an American who works regularly with Parisians.. just lighten up a little bit. A lot of respect with that but we all hate corporate life right?
2024-05-05 22:26:16
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SpookyPeanut :
Honestly we're somehow taught it in middle and highschool but only vaguely and it's a common anxiety in college because suddenly you're expected to know how to write a formal email to a prof
2024-05-05 10:49:02
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alexandergoodman2383 :
My favorite is “je me permets de…”. I permit myself to.. ok chillllll.
2024-05-03 15:16:41
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Dan🇬🇧 :
Meanwhile in Dutch, people write “Ha Daniel” to open their emails. As a foreigner I always feel I’m being laughed at 😂
2024-05-03 20:11:01
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Alice_Augustine_Author 📚 :
I use every one of them every day 😂😂
2024-05-03 13:39:42
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gdimer :
That’s called “langue soutenue” and it’s the most formal language register.other langages have similar registers to varying degrees, just not as strictly enforced as in french.
2024-05-04 05:59:20
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sltcmoicamicam :
LOL I don’t know why people have always been so formal in email. With younger generation working now it’s happening less and less
2024-05-04 00:22:06
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philsidock :
[1/2] To truly master a language, it's important to understand and be able to express yourself at the right level of language.
2024-05-06 02:13:04
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JellyCube :
😅Here in Mauritius we are bilingual and i purposefully reply to colleagues who have lost their minds typing FR and have time to be "pompeux" in Eng w
2024-05-05 15:48:53
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AJ. :
Fun fact: I made a GPT assistant to write me French admin emails for precisely this reason. I get so many comments from recipients saying how lovely and kind my emails are ✨
2024-05-03 20:09:12
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Marie :
Everything is professional, not unhinged at all. It’s just our version of ‘kind regards’
2024-05-08 22:29:57
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Ma 🍉⭐️ :
It’s just the norms for e-mailing. BELIEVE ME when I say that NO ONE wants to write stuff like that 😂
2024-05-03 22:19:00
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Andrea Ximena Areing :
Spanish is similar at least in the formal
2024-05-05 19:30:38
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(AJAX) TaraGWW :
I remain at your disposal is very “letters from John grey” and it would have me asking what we are 😂
2024-05-03 13:40:18
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guigz 🇪🇺🇫🇷 :
there is actually a very large array of specific sentences that are made for very specific people, position, situation. it’s a whole thing. this is taught at school. It’s meant for letters initially
2024-05-03 13:55:32
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GigislowcarbLife :
All romance languages are like this
2024-05-04 01:41:05
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