Colloquial French

[dash_zero]

Anyone know any useful french slang? I'm thinking along the lines like 'copain' (instead of ami), mamon (mum -instead of mother (I think that's right) + other more informal.

Basically any interesting phrases that I wouldn't find in my course work. Cheers.

[delboy3]

les flics = police

pote = buddy

vache! = damn! (lit: cow)

c'est du vol organis�e = what a rip-off (especially useful in Paris)

[jno]

this is good

[Emily Ball]

It's 'maman' by the way, not 'mamom'

[Emily Ball]

Sorry, meant to type 'not mamon'

[kalise25]

Our teacher always plugged "je parle francais comme un vache espangole" which literally is "I speak French like a Spanish cow", but means I speak really bad French......not sure if that's the politically correct thing you'd need or want! Plus it was our teacher that told us the phrase.....

[dash_zero]

That's all good, thanks kalise, emily, jno, delboy.

[mattfox]

This is quite interesting too:

http://french.about.com/library/vocab/bl-verlan.htm

but this is probably more relevant

http://french.about.com/library/vocab/argot/bl-argot-a.h tm

[aainoz]

Hey,

try going to this site, it has lessons on using slang...

http://www.uqtr.ca/argot/menu.html

[dash_zero]

Very cool, 3 years later and another answer, cheers aainoz, thanks heaps!!