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This is your chance to learn Guernsey French again with local language expert Hazel Tomlinson.

Below are the phrases from the fifth lesson lesson with their phonetic spelling, but if you want to try something a bit different, why not listen to the lesson online and repeat the words back to you via the link on the right.

The format for the sayings are as following:

Written in Patois
Phonetic spelling
In English

Là là! Quaï mauvais temps, ogniet!
(La la! Kye mohvay toh onyeh!)
Heavens! What awful weather today!

Vère dja, i fait aen fré d'tchen, et i plleut!
(Vair dja, ee feh a fred tcho, eh ee pyur!)
Oh yes, it's bitterly cold, and it's raining!

I'n f'ra pas bal pour allaïr ès ormés. (-pour allaïr à basse- iaoux)
(Een fra pa bal poor a-lye ayz ormay) (poor a-lye ah barss yow)
It won't be fine to go ormering.

Na dj, nous s'ra g'laïs et trempaïs.
(Nadja, noo sra zhlye eh tropye)
No indeed, we will be frozen and soaked to the skin.

Oïm-ous les ormés?
(Oy-moo layz ormay?)
Do you like ormers?

Ah, oui dja, j'oïme aen bouan fricot, cuit dans le four.
(Ah wee dja, zhoym ay bwoh free-ko, kwee dorl foor)
Ah yes, I like a good feed cooked in the oven.

Éiouque vous allaïz trachier vos ormés?
(Ay - ook vooz a-lye trashy-ay vose ormay?)
Where do you go to look for your ormers?

J'vais à la bànque à Pleinmont / à l'Érée / à Cobo
(Zh 'vay ah la bahk a pyaymang / ah lehray / ah ko-bo)
I go to the beach at Pleinmont / at l'Eree / at Cobo.

Mais, méfi-ous d'la maraïe!
(May mefee oo dla ma-rye!)
But, beware of the tide!

Merci, j'espère averr enne bouanne pêque.
(Mair-see, zhespair aveh en bwon pake)
Thank you, I hope to have a good catch.