Re: French syntax (was: Italian Particles)

Dans un courrier daté du 25/04/00 20:31:10  , Dan a écrit :

> > No, don't use "en". Strange that foreigners want to use it so much :)) .
>
>  I like it so much because it sounds slightly mucky, a bit like hein, hein?
>  :)
>
>  English Speackers obviously want to use it because of interference from
>  English "in". What exactly _is_ it used for, then? I've been told by a few
>  L1 speakers of French that I'm virtually fluent and the way I've always
>  judged it before is how it sounds to my ear.
>
>  Dan
>
as christophe put it, "en ta langue" is very good in written french,
but not in spoken french.
being fluent in written french, you would also be fluent in spoken french
within a few days, but both langs just happen to be more and more
two different langs. my american girlfriend told me she felt as if she had to
learn

again when she came over to paris.

mathias