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Do any of you guys speak French?
My French ... er, sucks, to be blunt**; I took it -- rather apathetically -- in high school, but all I remember now are random bits of vocabulary. So I'm trying to write a single line in French in something which appears to be a Highlander story (*hides*) and I could really use some help -- the line is "A cup of tea for the lady, please?" (to a waiter)
Is "Une tasse de thé pour la dame, s'il vous plaît?" correct? Is it grammatical? (One of the many, many things I can't remember about French is whether you can drop verbs and such, the way that you can in English, and still be comprehensible ...) Is that what one would actually say in a situation like that, or would it sound more natural to a native speaker if it was phrased in a different way?
** Just to give you an idea, the last time I tried to speak French in public was at a Tim Horton's in Quebec, a few years ago, and the person who was attempting to take my order actually went and located a co-worker who spoke English so that she didn't have to deal with my laborious butchering of her language. It was very sad. Ironically, one of the things I was trying to order was a cup of tea.
ETA: I have an answer; thank you very much! :)
Is "Une tasse de thé pour la dame, s'il vous plaît?" correct? Is it grammatical? (One of the many, many things I can't remember about French is whether you can drop verbs and such, the way that you can in English, and still be comprehensible ...) Is that what one would actually say in a situation like that, or would it sound more natural to a native speaker if it was phrased in a different way?
** Just to give you an idea, the last time I tried to speak French in public was at a Tim Horton's in Quebec, a few years ago, and the person who was attempting to take my order actually went and located a co-worker who spoke English so that she didn't have to deal with my laborious butchering of her language. It was very sad. Ironically, one of the things I was trying to order was a cup of tea.
ETA: I have an answer; thank you very much! :)
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