{"id":26,"date":"2008-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-06-05T14:36:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T18:36:20","slug":"language-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/2008\/06\/05\/language-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Errors!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather_gordy\/files\/2008\/06\/2329_39247.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather_gordy\/files\/2008\/06\/2329_39247.jpg\" alt=\"J`adore les jonquilles!\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>When learning a new language one often makes many mistakes of course.&nbsp; Some are more comical than others.&nbsp; Here are a few I have made.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Merci beaucoup&quot; means thank you very much but once I said the last vowel sound too high and said literally, &quot;thankyou beautiful fanny\/bum\/behind&quot;!<\/p>\n<p>When discussing with the director of our school that daffodils were my favorite flowers I meant to say, &quot;J&#8217;adore les jonquilles&quot; (I love daffodils) but what I said was &quot;J&#8217;adore les jeune filles&quot;, which literally means, &quot;I love the young women&quot;!&nbsp; What a laugh we had!&nbsp; I was so embarrassed!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If I wanted to talk about the love of Jesus I would say, &quot;l&#8217;amour de Jesus&quot; but if I wanted to talk about the death of Jesus I would say &quot;le mort de Jesus&quot; (with a silent T).&nbsp; The only difference is a very small vowel sound.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Language study is so important for communicating clearly!&nbsp; Please pray for me, for my brain, for my ears, and for my mouth.&nbsp; Only God can help me speak properly so that I can communicate His Word to people who need to know His love.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love young women!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}