There's a lot of fic out there where England doesn't know any French, but anon here thinks there are quite a few historical reasons why he would. As for France, his character notes state that he doesn't bother to remember English.
Therefore anon wants to see something where England can speak French perfectly well but France cannot understand English. Maybe he knows a few basic words/phrases, but that's it. So communication between the two has pretty much always been in French. It'd be really nice to see their day to day relationship in this light.
Bonus: France thinks Franglais words like 'relooking' are English. Bonus 2: Scene of England having a rather animated/lulzy-looking conversation or argument with another Anglophone nation, while France looks on and wonders what on earth they are saying.
Love this request! This anon has a thing for England speaking French and I just love the idea of France not speaking English. Also LOL for Franglais words. XD
Really like this idea! I haven’t heard of Franglais before, but I’ll try and fit something in (any more examples would help!). Also, I’ll put the translation next to the phrase, instead of having it below the story, since there’s quite a bit.
“So yeah, I can’t think of a name for this robot, so how about everyone thinks up a name overnight and tomorrow we can...”
“A giant robot will do anything but help the economy, Yankee!”
France nudged England, who was sitting beside him, desperately fighting the need to sleep. “Angleterre?”
England didn’t answer straight away, so France poked him again. After about three tries England turned to look at him, boredom and irritation etched onto his face, “Quoi?” (What?)
“Qu'at-il dit?” (What did he say?)
England looked back at America, trying to see what his notes were before he packed them away, while Canada prepared his presentation. France smirked; apparently England hadn’t been listening either. Maybe he wasn’t one to talk, but at least he had an excuse!
England turned back to him and whispered, “Même merde que le mois dernier.” (Same shit as last month.)
Last month? France hadn't been paying attention during that meeting either, or at least while America was talking. By the time he started paying attention again; England and America were already at each other’s throats. He shrugged his shoulders; “Je ne me souviens pas de la dernière réunion.” (I don’t remember the last meeting.)
England rolled his eyes at the Frenchman and turned back around. “Donc, apprendre l'anglais, frog-face.” (Then learn English.)
In other words, I don’t feel like translating for you. France sighed; America was only the second person to come up today as well! Even if he wouldn’t say anything, it would be nice to at least know what was going on. He leaned back on his chair, annoyed at the Brit’s lack of help.
Or, it might be the fact that yes, he should learn English, and had been putting it off for centuries that annoyed him more. It wasn’t that he couldn’t learn other languages, it was just... bad blood? Couldn’t will himself to do it? He wasn’t really sure why.
Whatever the reason was, English was the only official language of the UN that France hadn’t learnt. And if they were somewhere like Moscow or Paris, it wouldn’t matter, since they would speak that country’s main language. But somewhere like London or New York, where they were at now... well, he would have to make sure to bring extra paper so England could write notes for him.
“Thank you America; I mean Canada,” said Germany, gaining France’s attention. Considering what he had recognized and Canada’s expression, it seemed he had been mistaken for his loud-mouthed brother. Again.
“We’ll now have an hour lunch break. Don’t be late!”
Wait, he’s heard of lunch before! Lunch... lunch... Ah! Déjeuner! “Angleterre, dépêchez-vous!” (England, hurry up!) He started pulling at the Englishman’s sleeve, who was packing away his files.
“Une minute!” (One minute!) England replied crossly. France scowled and looked around, and noticed Canada looking at him exasperatedly. He wasn’t too surprised; he was constantly promising Canada that he would learn English, but hadn’t delivered so far.
He supposed he was lucky that neither England nor Canada had mentioned his lack of English to anyone. They threatened to, especially England when France started testing his flirting skills, but he knew they wouldn’t actually say anything. After all, since all UN members were expected to know the main languages, England or Canada would have to spend half an hour every day with him until he could speak fluently.
Teaching him, alone.
France would probably enjoy the time much more than they would.
England put the last of his notes in, and was about to walk out the conference room with France, when a hand fell on his shoulder.
“Hey, Iggy! How ya doin’? You and France weren't in your usual spot today!”
England pouted (rather adorably in France’s opinion); America had found him.
For anyone who’s interested, the UN languages are: English, French, Chinese (mostly Mandarin), Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Also, would the OP be alright with language barriers relating to America and England? Like America refusing to learn Russian, so England translates for Russia or something like that.
OMG *glomp* Thankyouthankyouthankyou! Seriously, I'm so happy someone's filled this!
OK, I have some links with further Franglais examples for you!
An article explaining Franglais with examples and a glossary at the end: http://awomansparis.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/ici-on-parle-franglais/ About.com has a list of some here with explanations. http://french.about.com/od/franglais/Franglais_English_in_French.htm There's the obligatory Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais
Please feel free to peruse the examples and pick whatever calls to you for this story. ^^
Re: America & England language barriers. OK ... a scenario just came to me where after the Soviet Union collapsed America (heroically) relented and started to learn it, but his Russian is still ... not that good. Uh, sorry if that's too pushy, I'm going to shut up now. >->
One thing I'd like to say for future reference is that (disclaimer: I don't know much French) I think France and England would use 'tu' rather than 'vous' to address each other, so 'Dépêchez-vous' would be 'Dépêche-toi', etc.
Loved this so, so much. Not OP but I for one would be super interested in a language barrier you suggested :) I also thought using the languages of the UN was a very clever, interesting take.
Ah, finally someone who don't butcher my precious language too much... Also, it's not "apprendre l'anglais" but "apprends l'anglais" because of course England and France would call each other "tu" out of familiarity and not "vous" and uhm... yeah. All French verbs conjugate differently and dude it's so complicated. Anyways, I'M gonna follow this :DDDDD
Forgot we had to all anon if I remember correctly > <... so fuck, reposting my com'
Thanks for the language corrections! I'll correct the first part if I de-anon this.
England in general had a low tolerance for America’s antics, but he wouldn’t be surprised if he found himself trying to break the man’s nose today. His flight to New York had had several delays due to the floods nearby, and any attempts at dozing for a bit were interrupted by a certain Frenchman asking, “Peux-tu traduire pour moi?” (Can you translate for me?) or, “Qu'est-ce que cela signifie?” (What does that mean?)
Seriously, why couldn’t France just learn English?! England could understand why a few centuries back, when they were enemies (if it wasn’t for the Norman Conquest, he may not have learnt French either), but now, it was just causing both of them trouble.
But no, France wasn’t the problem here. The problem was the obnoxious Yankee leaning on him right now. He wriggled out of America’s hold and muttered, “What do you want?”
“As grumpy as ever, huh, England?” laughed America. England turned away from him, hoping America would find someone else who would pay attention to him.
America continued with, “Can you do me a favour? I’m meant to talk to Russia about his US adoption policy, but he’s being a douche and only talking in Russian.”
“I thought you would have learnt it by now,” replied England. What was he, the local translator here? He remembered during the Cold War how he and China always had to translate for the two superpowers, due to their utter refusal to learn each other’s language.
However, once the Soviet fell, they both agreed to learn each other’s languages as, in America’s words, “A heroic symbol to represent our truce!”
Apparently America had yet to follow his end of the bargain.
“It’s not like I know nothing!” America crossed his arms defensively, “It’s him; he never slows down for me, even when I ask him to in Russian!”
“I do slow down for him. If he wants to speak to me in Russian, he should first learn the language, da?” Russia spoke up from behind England, making the Brit yelp in surprise.
“I have been learning! It’s just... there’re loads of really annoying gender agreements and...”
“Bloody hell, America, it’s been twenty years! Can’t you look away from your video games for just a few months?” England scolded him.
“I learnt your language so you can learn mine,” said Russia, smiling a bit too sweetly for England’s taste, “Angliya, ya mogu udaritʹ yego?” (England, can I hit him?)
“Nyet!” (No!) England replied hastily. He really did not need these two to be fighting today!
“Hm? England, what did he ask?” America demanded, able to piece together that whatever Russia asked was about him.
“Huh? Oh, it’s nothing don’t worry about-”
“I wanted to know if I can hit you, because you are annoying me,” Russia answered, “But I suppose it can wait for another time.”
“Oh you wanna hit me, do ya, you ex-commie bastard?!” America challenged, trying to move England out of the way, as he was standing between the two powers, “Bring it!”
"Oh, for God's sake!"
Used the 'tu' form this time! Requests in French have always been a rough spot for me, so I wasn't sure how to make them using 'tu' :S
Man, so much French in this part -_- Hopefully there's nothing too bad here!
France whistled to himself, waiting for England to leave America alone already. Although he was aware that leaving America and Russia alone together was never a good idea, he figured that if he and England weren’t around when a fight broke, then they couldn’t be to blame, right?
Apparently England hadn’t done very well at stopping the two, as they were busy sizing each other up, while England tried to prevent the two from taking it any further.
Course, he didn’t understand what was going on, other than that Russia wanted to punch America, which was probably why he felt so impatient. While he wasn’t as bad as America, he didn’t like being left out, especially when he knew that he didn’t have to be.
He was distracted from his thoughts when America aimed a punch the Russian. Russia managed to dodge, but the look in his eyes showed that there was no turning back now.
Well, at least England had finally moved out from between the two. France would have been more relieved, but now, the Brit was livid. He grabbed France’s wrist roughly and walked out of the meeting room; “Allons-y.” (Let’s go.)
“Aïe, Ok, Angleterre! Je vais!” (Ow, okay England! I’m going!) France winced from the hard grip on his wrist, Fortunately, England listened and let go of him, letting France catch up to him.
“Je ne le crois pas!” (I don’t believe it!) England shouted once France was walking next to him. “Sérieusement, ils ne peuvent pas avoir une conversation ensemble!” (Seriously, they cannot have one conversation together!)
“Parfois, ils peuvent, s'ils ne sont pas parler en anglais ou en russe,” (Sometimes they can, if they’re not speaking English or Russian) France replied, trying to calm him down a little. He could see where England was coming from, though, since whenever America and Russia were in a meeting that required the other language, they would refuse to co-operate. Eventually, either America would find England or Russia would find China.
That was probably why England had sat further up the conference table than usual.
“Oui, je sais...” (Yeah, I know...) England seemed to have calmed down a bit, though he was still clearly irritated. He walked quickly down the hall, leaving the building.
“Où tu vas?” (Where are you going?)
“McDonalds. Amérique va oublier.” (America will forget.)
France had to fight the urge to tease England about buying America food for him, hard as it was. After all, he still needed England around after the meeting to help him around the city.
“Um, France?” a quiet voice behind them spoke. France’s breath caught; oh god, did this person expect him to speak English? He turned round.
“Bonjour, Matthieu!” France answered, hugging his ex-colony. At least Canada understood why France couldn't answer, even though it had always annoyed Canada more than England.
“Is something wrong, Matthew?” asked England, slowly. France smile fell, already noticing what they were doing.
“Yeah, um... France?” Right, they were playing the ‘Speak English or we’ll scold you on how lazy and disorganized you are,’ game: “Where is America?”
Okay, he could do this, “Amérique... uh, America... is in...” Ugh, he was so close! “...the, uh...”
“The meeting room,” Canada finished for him. France relaxed; that meant he had done well enough. Unfortunately, the Canadian wasn't finished; “Where are you and England going?”
At least he said it slowly, so France could pick it up, “Uhh... we go-”
“We are going,” England corrected.
“Même chose,” (Same thing) France shot back, “We are going to McDonalds.”
“Très bien,” (Very good) said Canada, (ignoring England’s comment of “After how many centuries?”) “Why?”
...Ah. He had no idea how to say, ‘because England wants to buy some food for America since the guy’s busy trying to break Russia’s nose and I’m going with him because I can ask for some your food later, Canada.’ Guess he needed to make it up.
“We go- are going,“ he corrected himself before England could, “fooding!”
Silence. Then a, “...Quoi?” from Canada.
Whenever more than one person speaks a language you don't, they start testing you :P I have this happen to me all the time when I'm in Croatia
“We are going fooding!” France repeated. Canada still looked confused; maybe they didn’t say ‘fooding’ in North America? Before he could explain to Canada, though, he heard a loud snickering behind him.
It was England, who was desperately trying to hold in his laughter and looking anywhere but at France. Now France was just annoyed; what had he done wrong? He never laughed at England when he got the gender wrong in French (much)!
England tried to calm down, and met France’s eyes. However, that just made him burst out into laughter completely. When France turned to Canada, he found that he was giggling softly too.
“Quoi?! Qu'ai-je fait de mal?!” (What? What have I done wrong?!)
“You... you...” England tried to explain between laughs, forgetting to translate to French, “Fooding is... is not...”
“Fooding n'est pas un mot en anglais, France. Food est, mais non fooding,” (Fooding is not a word in English, France. Food is, but not fooding) Canada spoke in for England, who went into another fit of laughter after hearing him. Honestly, if someone walked through the corridor now they’d think England had been replaced by an imposter or something!
Ignoring him, France made sure to remember that. He remembered this once happening before, when he mentioned to England that his place could do with a ‘relooking.’
England hadn’t let that go for months. This time probably wouldn’t be much different.
Man, there are so many other things I couldn't fit in that I wanted to add. I wish Hetalia (or at least the fans) looked at languages more; there're so many ways to use them! If I de-anon this, I'll probably add more :)
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England/France - France can't speak English
(Anonymous) 2012-12-06 10:47 am (UTC)(link)Therefore anon wants to see something where England can speak French perfectly well but France cannot understand English. Maybe he knows a few basic words/phrases, but that's it. So communication between the two has pretty much always been in French. It'd be really nice to see their day to day relationship in this light.
Bonus: France thinks Franglais words like 'relooking' are English.
Bonus 2: Scene of England having a rather animated/lulzy-looking conversation or argument with another Anglophone nation, while France looks on and wonders what on earth they are saying.
Re: England/France - France can't speak English
(Anonymous) 2012-12-06 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)Seconding!
Re: England/France - France can't speak English
(Anonymous) 2012-12-06 10:55 pm (UTC)(link)Thirding!
Re: England/France - France can't speak English
(Anonymous) 2012-12-07 05:23 am (UTC)(link)I would want to write something for this if I knew any French...The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 1/2)
(Anonymous) 2012-12-26 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)“So yeah, I can’t think of a name for this robot, so how about everyone thinks up a name overnight and tomorrow we can...”
“A giant robot will do anything but help the economy, Yankee!”
France nudged England, who was sitting beside him, desperately fighting the need to sleep. “Angleterre?”
England didn’t answer straight away, so France poked him again. After about three tries England turned to look at him, boredom and irritation etched onto his face, “Quoi?” (What?)
“Qu'at-il dit?” (What did he say?)
England looked back at America, trying to see what his notes were before he packed them away, while Canada prepared his presentation. France smirked; apparently England hadn’t been listening either. Maybe he wasn’t one to talk, but at least he had an excuse!
England turned back to him and whispered, “Même merde que le mois dernier.” (Same shit as last month.)
Last month? France hadn't been paying attention during that meeting either, or at least while America was talking. By the time he started paying attention again; England and America were already at each other’s throats. He shrugged his shoulders; “Je ne me souviens pas de la dernière réunion.” (I don’t remember the last meeting.)
England rolled his eyes at the Frenchman and turned back around. “Donc, apprendre l'anglais, frog-face.” (Then learn English.)
In other words, I don’t feel like translating for you. France sighed; America was only the second person to come up today as well! Even if he wouldn’t say anything, it would be nice to at least know what was going on. He leaned back on his chair, annoyed at the Brit’s lack of help.
Or, it might be the fact that yes, he should learn English, and had been putting it off for centuries that annoyed him more. It wasn’t that he couldn’t learn other languages, it was just... bad blood? Couldn’t will himself to do it? He wasn’t really sure why.
Whatever the reason was, English was the only official language of the UN that France hadn’t learnt. And if they were somewhere like Moscow or Paris, it wouldn’t matter, since they would speak that country’s main language. But somewhere like London or New York, where they were at now... well, he would have to make sure to bring extra paper so England could write notes for him.
Re: The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 1b/2)
(Anonymous) 2012-12-26 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)“We’ll now have an hour lunch break. Don’t be late!”
Wait, he’s heard of lunch before! Lunch... lunch... Ah! Déjeuner! “Angleterre, dépêchez-vous!” (England, hurry up!) He started pulling at the Englishman’s sleeve, who was packing away his files.
“Une minute!” (One minute!) England replied crossly. France scowled and looked around, and noticed Canada looking at him exasperatedly. He wasn’t too surprised; he was constantly promising Canada that he would learn English, but hadn’t delivered so far.
He supposed he was lucky that neither England nor Canada had mentioned his lack of English to anyone. They threatened to, especially England when France started testing his flirting skills, but he knew they wouldn’t actually say anything. After all, since all UN members were expected to know the main languages, England or Canada would have to spend half an hour every day with him until he could speak fluently.
Teaching him, alone.
France would probably enjoy the time much more than they would.
England put the last of his notes in, and was about to walk out the conference room with France, when a hand fell on his shoulder.
“Hey, Iggy! How ya doin’? You and France weren't in your usual spot today!”
England pouted (rather adorably in France’s opinion); America had found him.
For anyone who’s interested, the UN languages are: English, French, Chinese (mostly Mandarin), Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Also, would the OP be alright with language barriers relating to America and England? Like America refusing to learn Russian, so England translates for Russia or something like that.
Re: The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 1b/2)
(Anonymous) 2012-12-28 01:19 am (UTC)(link)OP
(Anonymous) 2012-12-28 04:48 am (UTC)(link)OK, I have some links with further Franglais examples for you!
An article explaining Franglais with examples and a glossary at the end: http://awomansparis.wordpress.com/2010/06/25/ici-on-parle-franglais/
About.com has a list of some here with explanations. http://french.about.com/od/franglais/Franglais_English_in_French.htm
There's the obligatory Wikipedia article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franglais
Please feel free to peruse the examples and pick whatever calls to you for this story. ^^
Re: America & England language barriers. OK ... a scenario just came to me where after the Soviet Union collapsed America (heroically) relented and started to learn it, but his Russian is still ... not that good. Uh, sorry if that's too pushy, I'm going to shut up now. >->
One thing I'd like to say for future reference is that (disclaimer: I don't know much French) I think France and England would use 'tu' rather than 'vous' to address each other, so 'Dépêchez-vous' would be 'Dépêche-toi', etc.
Thank you again, authornon! <3
Re: The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 1b/2)
(Anonymous) 2012-12-28 08:51 am (UTC)(link)Re: The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 1b/2)
(Anonymous) 2012-12-28 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)Also, it's not "apprendre l'anglais" but "apprends l'anglais" because of course England and France would call each other "tu" out of familiarity and not "vous" and uhm... yeah. All French verbs conjugate differently and dude it's so complicated.
Anyways, I'M gonna follow this :DDDDD
Forgot we had to all anon if I remember correctly > <... so fuck, reposting my com'
The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 2a/2)
(Anonymous) 2012-12-30 12:24 am (UTC)(link)England in general had a low tolerance for America’s antics, but he wouldn’t be surprised if he found himself trying to break the man’s nose today. His flight to New York had had several delays due to the floods nearby, and any attempts at dozing for a bit were interrupted by a certain Frenchman asking, “Peux-tu traduire pour moi?” (Can you translate for me?) or, “Qu'est-ce que cela signifie?” (What does that mean?)
Seriously, why couldn’t France just learn English?! England could understand why a few centuries back, when they were enemies (if it wasn’t for the Norman Conquest, he may not have learnt French either), but now, it was just causing both of them trouble.
But no, France wasn’t the problem here. The problem was the obnoxious Yankee leaning on him right now. He wriggled out of America’s hold and muttered, “What do you want?”
“As grumpy as ever, huh, England?” laughed America. England turned away from him, hoping America would find someone else who would pay attention to him.
America continued with, “Can you do me a favour? I’m meant to talk to Russia about his US adoption policy, but he’s being a douche and only talking in Russian.”
“I thought you would have learnt it by now,” replied England. What was he, the local translator here? He remembered during the Cold War how he and China always had to translate for the two superpowers, due to their utter refusal to learn each other’s language.
However, once the Soviet fell, they both agreed to learn each other’s languages as, in America’s words, “A heroic symbol to represent our truce!”
Apparently America had yet to follow his end of the bargain.
“It’s not like I know nothing!” America crossed his arms defensively, “It’s him; he never slows down for me, even when I ask him to in Russian!”
“I do slow down for him. If he wants to speak to me in Russian, he should first learn the language, da?” Russia spoke up from behind England, making the Brit yelp in surprise.
“I have been learning! It’s just... there’re loads of really annoying gender agreements and...”
“Bloody hell, America, it’s been twenty years! Can’t you look away from your video games for just a few months?” England scolded him.
“I learnt your language so you can learn mine,” said Russia, smiling a bit too sweetly for England’s taste, “Angliya, ya mogu udaritʹ yego?” (England, can I hit him?)
“Nyet!” (No!) England replied hastily. He really did not need these two to be fighting today!
“Hm? England, what did he ask?” America demanded, able to piece together that whatever Russia asked was about him.
“Huh? Oh, it’s nothing don’t worry about-”
“I wanted to know if I can hit you, because you are annoying me,” Russia answered, “But I suppose it can wait for another time.”
“Oh you wanna hit me, do ya, you ex-commie bastard?!” America challenged, trying to move England out of the way, as he was standing between the two powers, “Bring it!”
"Oh, for God's sake!"
Used the 'tu' form this time! Requests in French have always been a rough spot for me, so I wasn't sure how to make them using 'tu' :S
Re: The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 2a/2)
(Anonymous) 2012-12-30 12:40 am (UTC)(link)France whistled to himself, waiting for England to leave America alone already. Although he was aware that leaving America and Russia alone together was never a good idea, he figured that if he and England weren’t around when a fight broke, then they couldn’t be to blame, right?
Apparently England hadn’t done very well at stopping the two, as they were busy sizing each other up, while England tried to prevent the two from taking it any further.
Course, he didn’t understand what was going on, other than that Russia wanted to punch America, which was probably why he felt so impatient. While he wasn’t as bad as America, he didn’t like being left out, especially when he knew that he didn’t have to be.
He was distracted from his thoughts when America aimed a punch the Russian. Russia managed to dodge, but the look in his eyes showed that there was no turning back now.
Well, at least England had finally moved out from between the two. France would have been more relieved, but now, the Brit was livid. He grabbed France’s wrist roughly and walked out of the meeting room; “Allons-y.” (Let’s go.)
“Aïe, Ok, Angleterre! Je vais!” (Ow, okay England! I’m going!) France winced from the hard grip on his wrist, Fortunately, England listened and let go of him, letting France catch up to him.
“Je ne le crois pas!” (I don’t believe it!) England shouted once France was walking next to him. “Sérieusement, ils ne peuvent pas avoir une conversation ensemble!” (Seriously, they cannot have one conversation together!)
“Parfois, ils peuvent, s'ils ne sont pas parler en anglais ou en russe,” (Sometimes they can, if they’re not speaking English or Russian) France replied, trying to calm him down a little. He could see where England was coming from, though, since whenever America and Russia were in a meeting that required the other language, they would refuse to co-operate. Eventually, either America would find England or Russia would find China.
That was probably why England had sat further up the conference table than usual.
“Oui, je sais...” (Yeah, I know...) England seemed to have calmed down a bit, though he was still clearly irritated. He walked quickly down the hall, leaving the building.
“Où tu vas?” (Where are you going?)
“McDonalds. Amérique va oublier.” (America will forget.)
France had to fight the urge to tease England about buying America food for him, hard as it was. After all, he still needed England around after the meeting to help him around the city.
“Um, France?” a quiet voice behind them spoke. France’s breath caught; oh god, did this person expect him to speak English? He turned round.
“Bonjour, Matthieu!” France answered, hugging his ex-colony. At least Canada understood why France couldn't answer, even though it had always annoyed Canada more than England.
“Is something wrong, Matthew?” asked England, slowly. France smile fell, already noticing what they were doing.
“Yeah, um... France?” Right, they were playing the ‘Speak English or we’ll scold you on how lazy and disorganized you are,’ game: “Where is America?”
Okay, he could do this, “Amérique... uh, America... is in...” Ugh, he was so close! “...the, uh...”
“The meeting room,” Canada finished for him. France relaxed; that meant he had done well enough. Unfortunately, the Canadian wasn't finished; “Where are you and England going?”
At least he said it slowly, so France could pick it up, “Uhh... we go-”
“We are going,” England corrected.
“Même chose,” (Same thing) France shot back, “We are going to McDonalds.”
“Très bien,” (Very good) said Canada, (ignoring England’s comment of “After how many centuries?”) “Why?”
...Ah. He had no idea how to say, ‘because England wants to buy some food for America since the guy’s busy trying to break Russia’s nose and I’m going with him because I can ask for some your food later, Canada.’ Guess he needed to make it up.
“We go- are going,“ he corrected himself before England could, “fooding!”
Silence. Then a, “...Quoi?” from Canada.
Whenever more than one person speaks a language you don't, they start testing you :P I have this happen to me all the time when I'm in Croatia
The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 2c/2)
(Anonymous) 2012-12-30 12:46 am (UTC)(link)“We are going fooding!” France repeated. Canada still looked confused; maybe they didn’t say ‘fooding’ in North America? Before he could explain to Canada, though, he heard a loud snickering behind him.
It was England, who was desperately trying to hold in his laughter and looking anywhere but at France. Now France was just annoyed; what had he done wrong? He never laughed at England when he got the gender wrong in French (much)!
England tried to calm down, and met France’s eyes. However, that just made him burst out into laughter completely. When France turned to Canada, he found that he was giggling softly too.
“Quoi?! Qu'ai-je fait de mal?!” (What? What have I done wrong?!)
“You... you...” England tried to explain between laughs, forgetting to translate to French, “Fooding is... is not...”
“Fooding n'est pas un mot en anglais, France. Food est, mais non fooding,” (Fooding is not a word in English, France. Food is, but not fooding) Canada spoke in for England, who went into another fit of laughter after hearing him. Honestly, if someone walked through the corridor now they’d think England had been replaced by an imposter or something!
Ignoring him, France made sure to remember that. He remembered this once happening before, when he mentioned to England that his place could do with a ‘relooking.’
England hadn’t let that go for months. This time probably wouldn’t be much different.
Man, there are so many other things I couldn't fit in that I wanted to add. I wish Hetalia (or at least the fans) looked at languages more; there're so many ways to use them! If I de-anon this, I'll probably add more :)
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(Anonymous) 2012-12-30 05:12 pm (UTC)(link)Aaaand I see America and Russia are up to their old tricks again. XD You even incorporated my suggestion, thanks~
I hope you do add more if you deanon, there's endless possibilities, really. ^^
Thanks again! <333
Re: The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 2c/2)
(Anonymous) 2013-01-01 03:38 am (UTC)(link)Anon also liked how Russia was being comparatively civil, but America was still being childish about their Cold War era feud.
This anon also likes more languages. Google translate is bad with grammar though, much less the gender differences.
Also, declension. German only has 4, but Russian has 6...at the very least. I'm not sure how many there are in English or French.
Re: The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 2c/2)
(Anonymous) 2013-05-30 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)Also, England speaking French is definitely headcanon. Great fill, authornon!
Re: The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 2c/2)
(Anonymous) 2013-01-09 02:58 am (UTC)(link)Re: The Millennium-long Barrier (Part 2c/2)
(Anonymous) 2013-01-12 06:50 am (UTC)(link)you should add more if you de-anon c: