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1 â French Vocabulary For Twitter
- La twittosphĂšre â Twitterâs world
- Un tweet â a tweet
- Tweeter â to tweet (regular ER verb)
- Retweeter â retweet (regular ER verb)
- Les tweetos (m) â twitter fans
- La page profil â home page
- Sâabonner â to follow
- Un abonnĂ©, une abonnĂ©e â a follower
- La page dâaccueil â home page
- La timeline â the timeline
- Un lien raccourci â short url
- Un hashtag â hashtag #
- Les tweets tendance â trending tweets
- Une liste â a list
- La baleine Ă©chouĂ©e â fail whale
- Un petit oiseau bleu â small blue bird
- Un logo â a logo
- BTW, a French bird says âcui-cuiâ :-)
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2 â A typical French Conversation About Twitter â Learn French In Context
Now, letâs study a dialogue using all this French Twitter Vocabulary in context.
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Pierre et Paul sont dans un cafĂ© Ă Paris. Le tĂ©lĂ©phone de Pierre fait un son, et Pierre rigoleâŠ
Pierre and Paul are in a coffee in Paris. Pierreâs phone makes a sound, and Pierre laughsâŠ
â Excuse-moi, je viens de recevoir un Tweet trop marrant, regarde : âle texto fĂȘte ses vingt ans. La mort de lâorthographe aussi.â
â Sorry, I just got a really funny Tweet, look: âtexting is celebrating his 20th birthday. So does the death of spelling.â
â Câest bien vrai ça. Tu aimes bien Twitter ?
â Thatâs so true. You like Twitter?
â Ouais, ça me fait marrer.
â Yep, it cracks me up.
â Moi je nâaime pas trop. Je suis sur Facebook, mais je nâaime pas lâidĂ©e dâĂȘtre interrompu par un Tweet.
â I donât like it much. Iâm on Facebook, but I donât like the idea of being interrupted by a Tweet.
â Moi je suis un vrai Tweetos, je suis les Tweets tendance et je retweet souvent. Comme la plupart des Tweets sont en anglais, ça me fait travailler un peu, et jâapprends plein de mots !
â Iâm a real Twitter fan, I follow the trending tweets and often retweet. Since most Tweets are in English, it makes me work (study) a bit, and I learn a lot of words!
â Câest une bonne idĂ©e ça⊠Tweeter pour pratiquer son anglais. Je nây avais pas pensĂ© !
â What a good idea⊠Tweeting to practice your English. I didnât think of that!
If you liked this article (please, do âlikeâ this article if you can :-) you will also enjoy Olivierâs article about French Computer Terms, and my articles about Facebook French Vocabulary and Pinterest in French.
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