Also, can you say this too: Je voudrais aller à l'Angleterre dans les vacances d'été.

You could say it that way, but the right way of saying it would be:

"Pendant les vacances d'été,"

And then a little correction. You can't say "à l'Angleterre"

The proper way of saying it is: "en Angleterre"

So the correct sentence is:

"Pendant les vacances d'été, je voudrais aller en Angleterre"

Pendant les vacances d'été, je voudrais aller en Angleterre.

Ah, thanks, so does this work too: Je voudrais aller en Angleterre pendant les vacances d'été.

For your second message, the right way of saying it is:
"Je voudrais aller en Angleterre pendant les vacances d'été"

Note that you can also use "durant" instead of "pendant"

So, regarding your 2nd sentence, note that in French, the coma is used to separate a sentence in two (in that case), and that when you use a coma in the middle of a sentence, you can also start your sentence with the proposition after the coma and end it with the first proposition.

I just realised it has to be: to London, in England. How does that work then?

Example:

"Cet été, j'aimerais faire le tour de l'Angleterre"

So it can also be written like this:
"J'aimerais faire le tour de l'Angleterre cet été"

Yes slyster, understood that part, thanks.

Then your sentence would be:

"Pendant les vacances d'été, je voudrais aller à Londres en Angleterre."

Je voudrais aller à Londres en Angleterre pendant les vacances d'été.

Ok, thanks both, and if you add a transport, so if you go with, say, a boat, how would the sentence get? Or is it best to do that in 2 sentences?

Je voudrais aller en bateau à Londres en Angleterre pendant les vacances d'été.

And if you say what you're going to do there?

So, something like:

I want to go to London in England with a boat in the summer holiday. I'm going to do some sightseeing, shopping and relaxing (or something other than relaxing :P).

Yes, I would definitely so that. The dirt best tip I can give you about French sentence is to put as many sentences as you can if it gets too complicated. So I'd say you should add: "Je pense y aller en bateau."

Which means: " I'm on a boat motherfucker!"

Je voudrais aller en bateau à Londres en Angleterre pendant les vacances d'été. Je vais faire du tourisme, du shopping et me reposer.

Je ne peux pas, je ne veux pas sur un bateau.
Je ne veux pas, tu vois, avec un chevreau.
Je n'en mangerai pas sous la pluie.
Je n'en mangerai pas dans la nuit.

No it doesn't slyster, I know enough French to know that's not what it means.

By the way "I want" is "Je veux". "Je voudrais" means "I would like".

Got it. Thanks again. Now I need one more sentence:

I want to become an engineer because I think it's interesting to design buildings.

Why not an architect?

Oh, and one more :P

I cycle a lot and I would like to shoot at a shooting range. (so the sport shooting)

I was kidding and referring to Saturday night live with the song "I'm on a boat". But yes, the sentence I wrote does mean: "I think of going (there) by boat"

Your last sentence:
"Je veux devenir un ingénieur parce que je trouve cela intéressant de concevoir des édifices."

THM: Does it matter? :P

Right. Thanks slyster. That last sentence and I should be done :P

Je voudrais devenir un ingénieur parce que je pense que c'est intéressant de concevoir des immeubles.
Note that usually in French we would use the conditionnel (je voudrais) when it comes to wishes. Je veux is quite a strong statement.

Cycle as in bicycle?

Then it would be:
"Je fais beaucoup de bicyclette et j'aimerais aller tirer des balles de fusil dans un champ de pratique."

Although I find that there's no link esteem those two ideas. You should put it in two sentences.

@Slyster: instead of "Je veux devenir un ingénieur parce que je trouve cela intéressant de concevoir des édifices.", one should say "Je veux devenir un ingénieur parce que je trouve que c'est intéressant de concevoir des édifices."

I agree on the two sentences. In France we use much more often vélo instead of bicyclette.

Esteem = between. Darn iPhone...

Yes, as Julien says, you can also use "je voudrais" we hat I wrote in my sentence means: "I want to be an engineer"

I guess it all depends how bad you want to become one ;)

We hat... C'mon iPhone!

*what*

"I want to become" instead of "I want to be" would be even more right. So it depends on how you want your sentence to sound like.

Ok, enough of French class. I'll leave it up to Julien now. ;)

So how do you say "I want to get someone to do my French homework for me" in French??? ;-)

ava: Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
moi: Non.

ava: Mangerez-vous une chaussure avec moi ce soir ?
moi: Oui.

WTF ^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQa7SvVCdZk

lol zultar +1

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03:32 PM
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Je ne peux pas, je ne veux pas sur un bateau.
Je ne veux pas, tu vois, avec un chevreau.
Je n'en mangerai pas sous la pluie.
Je n'en mangerai pas dans la nuit.

Oh my god. That was the hardest 5 minutes of my life. You damn mods and your corruption. Why did you silence me? What did I do wrong? You abused your powers just because I had written the truth, didn't you? Or was it because I did it in French?
Also, you bullied me in the five minutes that I was silenced. How do I know you bullied me? It's obvious and if you bully me again, I'll contact Kestas about you bullying me. I'm surprised no one came to my defense though. You need to lengthen my silence time to at least 24 hours so that a nut job can show up and defend me. The best part of that will be when I am done with my silence and I speak up in the forum and make fun of my defender, he wouldn't get it because satire, sarcasm, and humor would be a bit beyond him. Why do you think he would freak out in the first place? There is a small chance that he is all knowing and all correct but I don't think that's likely. It's more likely that he's a self-righteous prick without a sense of humor who takes back his statements and positions after he's been proven wrong and claim that he knew that he was doing the whole time.

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Zultar, you're suck a dick.

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@slyster: Les Oeufs Verts au Jambon, par Dr. Seuss.

@Mujus: I do understand you think that, but, to be clear, I had to do a speech without any paper and I couldn't figure out how to say those sentences. So it's not like I copied those sentences, I just asked how a French person says that. Then, once I got it, I did the rest myself. It was a big speech.

So I'm fine with you calling it helping with my homework, although that's arguable, but they doing my homework for me is just wrong :P

Homework? I thought you were in a bar trying to pick up a French girl and everyone was helping you in a noble cause.

True love is the greatest thing in the world, except for a nice MLT.

@Philcore: I don't think this sentence is a good pick up line IMHO
I cycle a lot and I would like to shoot at a shooting range. (so the sport shooting)

This one is even worse:
Mangerez-vous une chaussure avec moi ce soir ?

In fact, the only one that could be affected by such sentence is someone named Ava it seems!

I thought he was trying to show that he was manly and athletic.