Too much pocket money
During our French A-level class we were discussing what we spent our pocket money on. My friend revealed to the rather surprised group that he regularly buys des magasins, shops, rather than des magazines.
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Québec, Canada
2009-03-31
In France, they say shopping or faire des courses for shopping.
in Québec, we say magasiner... Frenchs usually don't understand when they hear that word for the first time.
Once during our A Level class (I studied French at the Alliance Française de Bombay), our teacher gave a situation where everyone was supposed to gift something to their friend on her b'day. One of the class mates said "Je vais acheter un poison pour mon amie." (I'm going to buy poison for my friend) when she meant "poisson" (fish) instead of poison.
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