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Mar 2023
6:19pm, 9 Mar 2023
18,492 posts
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Cerrertonia
Cocorico in French I think. coc-a-dwdl-dŵ in Welsh!
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Mar 2023
6:41pm, 9 Mar 2023
49,144 posts
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♪♫ Synge ♪♫
Cocorico in French I think
Very similar to the Ukrainian, by all accounts! I hope someone somewhere has written a thesis on this. 
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Mar 2023
10:17pm, 9 Mar 2023
17,488 posts
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JK *chameleon*
Go on, Hanneke, tell us what the cockerel says in Dutch!
But what does the fox say?
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Mar 2023
6:29pm, 11 Mar 2023
26,309 posts
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Angus Clydesdale
We had the Marsaud family. Voice la famille Marsaud. M. Marsaud est le père de la famille. Mme Marsaud est la mère de la famille etc. Monsieur Marsaud was always dans le jardin and his wife dans la cuisine. The son was called Jean-Paul and the girls were Claudette and (I think) Marie-France plus Bruno the dog. It must have been reasonably widespread in English schools because Eddie Izzard did a routine about "le singe est dans l'arbre" and that was one of the early lessons on the course.
That's the ones. La famille Marsaud
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Mar 2023
8:43pm, 11 Mar 2023
27,274 posts
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Dave.O
I was made to learn French in middle and upper school. Completely wasted on me as I had zero interest and said I'm never going to go to France so why bother learning it. Since then I've been multiple times to the Alps and even spent a month mountain biking there. Though I've never had the need to ask for a kilo of potatoes or apples at any time.
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Mar 2023
8:04am, 12 Mar 2023
1,812 posts
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Gus
Early 70s I did O level and Higher French and remember trying to translate Je t’aime using the school French dictionary.
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Mar 2023
11:53am, 12 Mar 2023
22,325 posts
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ChrisHB
which I hope taught you that dictionaries are of limited usefulness
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Mar 2023
11:58am, 12 Mar 2023
100,499 posts
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Hanneke
Kikirikiiiii in Italian.
The fox? Doesn't speak in Dutch.
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Mar 2023
1:09pm, 12 Mar 2023
17,494 posts
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JK *chameleon*
Seems our friends on the continent have better hearing than us Brits - both of those far better resemble a noisy rooster than cock-a-doodle-doo does.
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Mar 2023
3:42pm, 13 Mar 2023
22,488 posts
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DeeGee
Early 70s I did O level and Higher French and remember trying to translate Je t’aime using the school French dictionary.
The Gainsbourg song?
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