French 101, Period 5, Class 7 [3-6]

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Jean-Paul was sitting behind the desk, his feet up on his desk, reading a magazine in French when the students arrived. "Your midterms are on your desk," he said without looking up. "Do not cheat."

Jean-Paul was not exactly the world's most enthusiastic teacher sometimes.

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Midterm

[notanactualfairy]

Translate the following sentences into French.

1. Yes, we have no bananas.

2. Please, Mr. Giant Robot, do not step on me.

3. Forgive me, I am a stupid American.

4. I thought Paris did not have supervillains.

5. I am only a teenager. Hopefully I will grow brains.

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Dawn figured laughing at the sentences wouldn't help her grade any, so she bit her lip as she worked out the translations.

1. Oui, nous ne prenons aucune banane.

2. Svp, M. Giant Robot, ne font pas un pas sur moi.

3. Pardonnez-moi, je suis un Américain stupide.

4. J'ai pensé que Paris n'a pas eu des supervillains.

5. Je suis seulement un adolescent. Si tout va bien j'accroîtrai des cerveaux.

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Johnny was going to give it his best.

1. Oui, nous n'avons aucune banane.
2. Recevez l'enfer loin, M. Robot, avant que je la torche vous! (Johnny probably changed this answer to suit himself. His bad.)
3. Pardonnez-moi, mais vous êtes stupides. (Maybe this one too. But it's all French, right? Come on...)
4. J'ai cru que Paris n'avait pas de supervilains.
5. Même étant un adolescent, je suis plus élégant que vous. (This one too.)

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Considering that Chad had been studying for this midterm since probably the beginning of January, he churned out his translations nearly perfectly.

Number two had actually started out in Japanese, though, with a Domo Arigato, Mister Roboto crossed out because he couldn't see the words 'Mr. Giant Robot' without getting that song stuck in his head. (He had that song stuck in his head a lot when he was living in Japan).

And Number three had a little asterisks by it that could be continued at the bottom of the page with "Sauf que je ne suis pas. :("

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John considered how much he cared about passing before writing his answers.

1. //Our bananas are really quite nice.//
2. //Mr. Giant Robot, what big feet you have!//
3. //Why am I learning French? Isn't this America?//
4. //Please don't toss the Eiffel Tower into the river.//
5. //When I grow up, I want to be smart like Jean-Paul.//

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1. Oui nous ne prenons aucune banane.

2. Svp, M. Giant Robot, ne font pas un pas sur moi.

That would be Brooke frowning and wondering how that was going to be useful in real life.

3. HEY.

4. J'ai pensé que Paris n'a pas eu des supervillains.

She'd totally guessed at the French word for "supervillains". By using the American version.

5. HEY SOME MORE.

Talk to Jean-Paul

[notanactualfairy]

He was still reading his magazine.

OOC

[notanactualfairy]

I figure your options for the midterm are as follows:

1) Run it through a translator.

2) Make stuff up.

3) Put the //s of foreign language-ness around your 'translation.'

Or something else I'm not thinking of because it's 5 AM and I am somehow still awake.