A "successful" evening with friends
is an evening...
Une soirée "réussie"
avec des amis est une soirée où...
with French wine
good music, active people
which is full of energy and energetic people.
that has fun people and music
that is loud, smaller, friendly & fun-filled.
that is packed
with my friends
that is fun
in which you don't have to try to have fun.
with good music, intelligent people, and no booze!
with cute, out-going girls and great music.
where people have ffun, like New Year's eve party
where there is good music, good food and fun folk.
where you have fun.
that jams
where you find your friends, has alcohol
where everyone is having fun.
that is best left to the immagination
that you don't want to leave even if you're tired
you can't remember.
l on s est amuse
on s'amuse ( et on boit )
l' on s'est fait de nouveaux ami(e)s
l'on s'est bien amuse
l'ambiance est chaude
l'on s'amuse entre ami(e)s
je m'amuse
la majorite des invites en sort enchantee
on s'est bien amuse
on s'amuse, on fait des rencontres interessantes
on se sent bien dans sa peau
personne ne pense a autre chose
tout le monde s'amuse bien
tout le monde s'amuse
on a bien rit, ou tout le monde s'est amuse
Discussion
----JE pense qu'il y a effectivement beaucoup de difference entre party et time with friends. Party, pour nous soiree, et un endroit ou l'on danse, on boit,... on fait la fete quoi.. C'est comme dans une discotheque en quelques sortes.On y rencontre plein de gens , et beaucoup qu'on ne connait pas. ----Time with friends, et quelque chose de completement different: on se rencontre avec des amis pour discuter de tout et de rien, pour aller jouer,.... ----Je pense que les reponses qui ont ete donnees par les francais concernaient plutot une soiree ou l'on va pour danser, pour voir du monde... Quant aux reponses des ameicains, elles semblent regrouper les deux sortes de soirees, mais qu'en est il vraiment???
----Hi, ----I was reading the responses regarding "a good time with friends..." and I thought it was interesting that while all the American responses seemed to describe an evening with specific details (it's small, it's loud, with my friends), most of the french responses just said "to have a good time". Is this because most French parties are relatively similar in style, that the make or break for a party is whether you have a good time, or is it just that most everyone "knows" (as in it's culturally understood) what a "good" party consists of so there isn't much to be said? Or is it that there are so many different meaning for "party" or "time with my friends" in English, that we feel that we must be really explicit in defining what me mean? ----Nat G