Francophone de Singapour - French speaking Toastmasters Club

I was the ah counter at Francophone de Singapour,  a French speaking Toastmasters club.

I was Ah Counter - compteur d'hésitations, counter of hesitations.

I won the ribbon for best impromptu speaker.

My topic:

You are in an accident.

My topic was (I've translated from French): You are in a car accident. You are the driver. A person has been killed. The accident is your fault. The driver of the other car is in tears and thinks it is their fault. Do you admit that it is your fault or keep quiet?

I replied animatedly:
Vous ne direz rien! Jamais. Absolument pas. Ce n'est pas permis! Si vous avez regarder votre papier avec l'assurance vous devez lire des instructions. Vous ne devez pas admettre rien. C'est pour la compagnie qui va payer de decider ce qu'il fault dire.

Vous pouvez appelez pour la police, les pompiers, les gens pour vous aider, aider les blessée, mais vous ne direz rien au sujet de la cause.

C'est pour la police de trouver la faute. On peut voir, par les photographies, les marques des roues des voitures, pour savoir la vitesse des voitures et la direction. Ce n'est pas votre metier. Vous aider les blessée, mais vous ne dites rien. Moi, je crois toujours que les choses sont ma faute. Mais après un accident, c'est obligatoire de garder la silence.

Translation:
You say nothing! Absolutely not. It's not allowed.

If you have seen your car insurance document you must have read the instructions (of what to do in an accident). You must admit nothing. It's for the company which has to pay out to decide what you must say.

You can call the police, the firemen, the ambulance people, yourself help the wounded, but you must admit nothing on the subject of the cause of the accident. It's for the police (investigation) to establish the cause. That will be proved, seen from the photographs, the marks left on the road by the tyres of the vehicles showing their direction and speed. It's not your job. You are not an expert.

You help anybody who is injured to receive medical assistance but - you say nothing.  (You might not remember. Be confused, in shock.) Besides, I always think everything is my fault! But after an accident, your insurance company says - you are obliged to stay silent!

Glossary

ENGLISH - FRENCH

Ah counter - compteur d'hésitations

best evaluator - meilleur evaluateur

best impromptu speaker -  meilleur improvisateur 

best impromptu speech - la meilleure improvisation

best speaker - meilleur orateur

English - Anglais

French - Francis

guest - invite

never - jamais

nothing - rien

president -président/e

Singapore - Singapour

website - site web

FRENCH - ENGLISH

Anglais - English

compteur d'hésitations - Ah Counter

Francais - French

invité - guest

improvisation - impromptu (speech)

jamais - never

Meilleur evaluateur - best evaluator

meilleur improvisateur - best impromptu speaker

meilleur orateur - best speaker

rien - nothing

Singapour - Singapore

site web - website

The Francophone de Singapour club meets the first Friday of the month at 

Cairnhill Community Club (CC)

1 Anthony Road
229944 Singapour
Site web www.francosing.com

Near Newton MRT (Mass transit railway - underground) train station - Le Metro

Angela Lansbury, B A Hons, CL, ACG, author and speaker.

French words which are useful at Toastmasters International French groups

A friend of mine is giving a speech at a French Toastmasters group in Singapore and sent me the programme. I've listed the words in alphabetical order so I can practise them when I go to French speaking meetings. You will find French speaking clubs in France, Belgium, Canada, England, Switzerland and Singapore. Have I left any out? Please send me your club details.

Francophone meets at Cairnhill Community Club in Singapore. They meet monthly.

FRENCH - ENGLISH
A-D
accompli - accomplished or advanced
aller a l'essentiel (project 3) go/get to the point
L'Animatrice - the toastmaster
argent - silver
arrondissement - area
auditoire - audience
Asie - Asia
Avril - April
briser la glace - break the ice (project 1)
chronométeur - timekeeper
clôture - closure or closing
Communicateur - communicater
Compétant - competent
contenu - contents
corps - body
de - of
début - start / opening
devenir  - to become / create
discours prepare
distingue

E-K
en - in
est - is
et - and
être - to be
evaluateur - evaluator
Français - French
huissier - bailiff or sergeant at arms
la fin - the end
Improvisations - impromptu speeches / table topics
jardin - garden
jardinier - gardener

L-R
la - the
la langue - language
maintenant - now
manuels - manuals
membre - member
merci - thank you
meilleur - best
meilleur orateur - best speaker
mois - month
mot de la fin - last word - final speech/ closing speech/address
mot du jour - word of the day
notre - our
n'oubliez pas - don't forget
orateur - speaker
persuasif - persuasive
Présidente sortante - past president (ex or former president)
premier - first
la recherche - research
région - region
relations publique - public relations
remettre - give
remise - handing out, distribution, awarding of
Reunion - meeting (a reunion in English is usually an annual or anniversary meetings such as a gathering of holidaymakers or a graduation class from a school or college every year on the last day they previously met such as Jun 10
réservez - reserve

S-Z
Secrétaire - secretary
Singapour - Singapore
supports visuels - visual aids
trésorier / trésorière (female) - treasurer
variete vocale - vocal variety
vendredi - Friday
volet - way, path or track
volonté - will
dos / votre - your

ENGLISH - FRENCH
A-D
advanced - accompli
April - avril
area - arrondissement
audience - auditoire
best - meilleur
break the ice - briser la  g l a c e
closing - clôture
competent - compétent
contents - contenu

E-K
end - la fin
evaluator - evaluateur
evaluation - evaluation
Friday - vendredi
garden - jar-din (no hyphen but spell check wants one
gardener - jardinier

L-R
language - la langue
meeting - reunion
member - membre
month - mois
0f - de
persuasive - persuadir
president - Présidente
public relations - relations publiques
region - région
reserve - reserves
ribbons / awards / certificates - récompenses

S-Z
secretary - secrétaire
sergeant at arms - huissier
silver - argent
Singapore - Singapour
speech - discours (like the British words discourse and discussion
thank you - merci
the - la (feminine) le (masculine)
timer - chronometeur (le)
Toastmaster of the evening - Animatrice
treasurer - trésorier / trésorière (female)
visual aids - supports visuels
vocal variety - variety vocals
will - volonté
Way or path or track - valet
word of the day - mot du jour
your - votre

Toastmasters Francophone de Singapour
Cairnhill Community Club
1 Anthony Road
229944 Singapour
Site web www.francosing.com

Angela Lansbury, language teacher, tutor, author and speaker,