One day of studying French.

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I bought French For Reading which was recommended to me by a fellow candidate and studied a chapter. This is the end result

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[the_sun_is_up]

Nicely done! I only noticed one mistake:

l'état solide

is "solid state" rather than "solid study" (which would be "l'étude solide")

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OOoh good catch. Thank you!

[aaau]

French! I recently picked it up again myself. That book looks super good, I will check it out.

Oh, I think "X rayons" should be "X rays". Of course I'm no French speaker, but your translation looks pretty solid! Are you studying it for academic goals, or with a general interest?

[sub_textual]

XD I have no idea either way. But thanks. :D I am studying it because it's a requirement for Brown. You have to be able to obtain reading fluency in two languages. ;;

[thundersocks]

Your next test: pronouncing it all. :|b

[thundersocks]

... also why are you reading about molecular science in French?

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It's part of the exercises in the book! And I don't have to ever pronounce it, I just need literary fluency.

[thundersocks]

Fluency doesn't work that way lasdhfjdls, literary or not. You should start easier, like with a simple grammar French book if you don't know it very well, because French grammar is very finicky and has about a million exceptions to the rules, and if you don't know the grammar rules, it's basically useless to try and translate from English --> French.

I'd get the basics down before you tackled... molecular science.