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Quote: Originally posted by savanne1 on 29/5/2012

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I'm hoping to find a decent app I can use on my ipod touch. Any suggestions?

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I'd go with the app idea, but there are some really useful phase 'cards', which have phrases and vocabulary for quick revision. These are often sold in the ferry terminal shop (can't remember who produces them)

Altavista babelfish translater is superb.

CD's are always a good option,as you can learn as you travel  

I usually do a refresh about a month before we go.......I change the language on my phone to French, you soon get the basics.

 Much depends on where you go, but if you want to be polite it is always good to use the basic courtesy.

Whatever you do don't speak loudly and slowly this will just make them people patronised.

You won't go hungry anyways as you just walk in andtake it off the shelf.

A few basic essentials if you are camping are:

Un emplacement ce soir s'il vous plait - A pitch for tonight please.

Un tent - one tent

Deux adult - 2 adults

Un biere sil vous plait - a beer please!!!

Pain pour ce matin - bread in the morning ;)

Believe me , if it's warm you'll want beer not Vin Rouge. I only ever drink lager/ beer in France, I always find it too warm to quaf red wine, it makes me feel sickly.

To get the correct pronunciation, listen to one of the French radio stations, if you can tolerate the Euro pop......it really is bad.

Yeah right...try tha phrase on a burley French man in a PMU bar.

Listening to the radio while travelling is an excellent way to pick up French words, although they seem to like our music, not surprising whne then repertoire goes no further than Europpo and sounds like a Eurovision entry. Faure and Bizet would have been upset , when they wrote such fine music.

It woudl be good to note a useful words from the French vocabulary though. We were locked out of our car, and neede a wire coat hanger, not a pharsae you would expect to need...it was like charades trying to explain myself