Rainbow-Winter 2012-2013 - The Methodist Church of Great Britain

NEWS FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA
Winter 2012/2013
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Contents
Meet our new friends …………2
Papua New Guinea
What’s going on in
Papua New Guinea
……………3
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Meet our new friends
Meet our school party of aliens from the planet Wez
who are on a tour of the universe with their geography
teacher Flobo. Klax and Traz have never left their planet
before and are very excited. They have landed on our
world to find out about World Partner Churches and the
work that JMA and the World Mission Fund support.
Hot bananas in coconut milk 5
Design your own traditional
mask …………………………………6
Animals of Papua New
Guinea wordsearch ……………7
My name is Flobo and I am
a geography teacher on my
planet. I love adventure.
Being creative in Pakistan… …8
Responding to natural
disasters ……………………………9
After school club in Latvia 10
Working in Antigua ………… 11
Hi! My name is Traz
and I am one month,
two days and three
hours older than Klax.
Prayer focus …………………… 12
Tasty fundraising ideas …… 14
JMA members page ………… 15
Togo ……………………………… 16
Hi! My name is Klax.
Traz is my best friend.
JMA Secretaries news … 18-19
Parlez-vous français ……… 20
Use of photographs
We love to receive photos from events and of
collectors receiving their certificates and badges.
They can be emailed to childrenandyouth@
methodistchurch.org.uk or posted to Children &
Youth, Methodist Church House, 25 Marylebone
Road, London NW1 5JR.
All photographs should include written
confirmation that written parental consent has
been obtained (and the date it was obtained) for
the image to be used in Rainbow. We are unable
to use any images that do not confirm you hold
parental consent.
Planet Wez is very small and
covered with water. We live
in cities under the sea. On our
travels and adventures across
your planet, we’re going to
visit many places.
Methodist Church, 25 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5JR
Tel: 020 7486 5502 Email: childrenandyouth@methodistchurch.org.uk

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Country facts:
Papua New Guinea
Capital City: Port Moresby
Population: 6.8 million
Climate: Tropical, with a monsoon
season
Currency: the Kina
Language: the three official languages
are English, Tok Pisin and
Motu. There are
approximately 860
other languages.
Papua New Guinea has several
thousand separate communities,
divided by language, customs and
traditions.
The United Church in Papua New Guinea
(UCPNG) has a membership of 600,000
organised into 2,700 congregations.
The Methodist Church in the UK has
approximately 513,000 people who
attend our churches in some capacity.
There are 700 ministers and 1,600 pastors in the United
Church of Papua New Guinea. There are 6 high schools,
400 primary and community schools, 3 vocational schools
and many more elementary schools.
Images used in this publication are reproduced courtesy of: © Photos.com, © TMCP
© Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
Design and production: Methodist Publishing Registered Charity No 1132208.
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What’s going on in Papua New Guinea
Steve Pearce, partnership co-ordinator for Asia
and the Pacific, talks about our mission partners
in Papua New Guinea.
Steve Pearce
Steve visited the United Church of
Papua New Guinea (UCPNG). JMA
and the World Mission Fund support
this church in many ways.
Each village elects a committee to
look after the new water system and
the taps and a family pays about
£10 to begin using one of these
taps.
There are many poor and remote
villages in this country. Taupota is
one of these.
The UCPNG tries to help is by
helping villages to form a water
committee to build a small dam
(only about 1.5 metres high) and run
pipes around the village. Taps are
then shared by three, four or five
houses.
Many villages also send someone
to train as a village health volunteer
(VHV). They learn about hygiene
and good practice with rubbish,
protecting the clean water, looking
after the area around the tap,
washing and keeping clean etc.
The other important thing is toilets!
You make one by digging a twometre
hole. Then you put this over
the top of the hole and build a little
hut around it. There is no water
involved (There is not enough water
for this!). This kind of toilet is called
a ‘long drop’. It’s very hygienic and it
doesn’t smell!
In the picture you see Fiona (the girl)
and Philipa enjoying the tap near
their home.
Running water means better health
and the convenience of not having
to go to the river or the sea to wash.
Without these toilets all you can do
is go to the toilet in the forest!
The Church helps provide these
toilets. They cost about £200 each
and are shared by a few families
– resulting in many health and
environmental improvements.

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Hot bananas in coconut milk
Here is a Papua New Guinea recipe to try. You will need an adult to help you.
You will need
☻ 6 bananas
☻ 2 tablespoons
granulated sugar
☻ 2 cups coconut milk
☻ ½ teaspoon salt
Preparation
1. Peel the bananas
and chop into 5cm
pieces.
2. In a saucepan, heat
the coconut milk
with the sugar and
salt, and cook gently
until the sugar has
dissolved. Add the
banana pieces and
cook gently for 5
minutes. (Adult
supervision is
required for this.)
3. Divide the mixture
into 6-8 small bowls
and serve warm.
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Design your own
traditional mask
Masks have been a
feature of human
civilization for
thousands of
years and vary
from culture
to culture.
In Papua
New
Guinea
they hold
a mask
festival
each year.
Animals of
Papua New Guinea
On a walk through the forests
of Papua New Guinea, you may
encounter the world’s largest
pigeon, the Southern Crowned
Pigeon. You could also see
the world’s smallest parrot
(the Red-breasted Pygmy
Parrot) and the longest Lizard
(Salvadore’s Monitor lizard).
You might even see a treeclimbing
kangaroo! Sooner
or later, the world’s largest
butterfly, the Queen Alexandra
Birdwing, will flutter by. Papua
New Guinea also has the tallest
tropical tree on the planet: a
conifer called Araucaria, which
can grow up to 70 metres high.
Huon Tree Kangaroo

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a a b i s r b f n h f f a o u s f a s n y m e a e f e u e o a t
o i n g s t m p e y n i f e r e v p e r b o l l c r x r m s t l
Big Eared Mastiff Bat
Bismarck’s Trumpet Eared Bat
Bougainville Monkey Faced Flying Fox
Bulmers Fruit Bat
Champion’s Tree Mouse
Doria’s Tree Kangaroo
Eastern Shrew Mouse
Eastern Small Toothed Rat
Flower-faced Bat
Fly River Trumpet Eared Bat
Huon Tree Kangaroo
Lesser Flying Fox
Long Footed Water Rat
New Guinea Big-eared Bat
Poncelet’s Giant Rat
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Being creative in Pakistan
Earning Hands Project
The Women’s Development and Service
Society (WDSS) is part of the Church
of Pakistan. The World Mission Fund
and JMA supported them with a
grant for £20,000 to enable them to
help women’s development in the
community. One project that has
been enabled with this grant is the
Earning Hands Project which trains
women in skills that will help them
generate an income.
Here is a woman from the
project using her skills.
The grant from JMA and the
World Mission Fund has helped
to buy new sewing machines.
The stitching unit (tailoring shop) has
new machinery and new staff have been
appointed and are being trained. The staff
are looking at supplying schools and colleges with
uniforms and costumes for special events and theatre
productions. The project is approaching churches about
making clergy garments and church accessories.
Two vocational classes at Margzar Colony and Youhanabad
have been started. Each class has 25-30 women learning skills
they can use in their community to earn money.
These uniforms are
supplied by the Earning
Hands project.
Country facts: Pakistan
Capital City: Islamabad
Population: 177 million
Population below poverty line:
Tropical, with a monsoon
season
Languages spoken:
Punjabi, Sindhi, Pashtun, Urdu,
Balochi, English and many
other local languages
Religions: Islam (97%), Hinduism,
Christianity and others (3%)
Currency: Rupee

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Responding to natural disasters
In October, you may have heard about Hurricane Sandy on
the news. A grant of £18,000 from the World Mission Fund
was sent to help repair the damage left by the storm that has
wreaked havoc across Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Haiti
and the east coast of the United States.
The Revd Tom Quenet, partnership coordinator
for Latin America & the Caribbean, said that
Hurricane Sandy was the largest and most
destructive of the Caribbean’s 2012 hurricane
season.
“Living in the Caribbean you expect hurricanes between June
and November,” he said. “What you can never tell is how
intense they will be and what impact they will have as they
pass near you.”
Bishop Ricardo Pereira visited the communities in Cuba worst
affected. Once the storm had passed, many church members
whose homes had lost roofs and were damaged met to hold a
prayer meeting in the open air.
Hurricane Sandy battered Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas and
indirectly affected Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In Haiti,
which is still recovering from the 2010 earthquake, the streets
of Port au Prince were flooded and
people were left without homes or jobs.
What is a
hurricane
A hurricane is a rotating tropical storm
with winds of at least 74 miles per
hour. These storms are often compared
to tornadoes because of the way that
they rotate. However, tornadoes are
much smaller in size than hurricanes.
The best way to view a hurricane is
from above because of its massive size.
Create
your own
hurricane
experiment
1. Fill a 1ltr soft drink bottle with
plain water. If you don’t have
a sink nearby, you will need to
obtain a large jug filled with
water in order to fill the bottle.
2. Figure out how long it will
take to empty the filled bottle
and then write your prediction
down. Empty the bottle
without squeezing its sides.
Do this several times and
write down the exact amount
of time that it takes for the
bottle to empty.
3. Fill the bottle again, but this
time while emptying the
water, swirl the water around
within the bottle by rotating
the bottle counter clockwise.
Keep swirling the bottle
until it forms a tornado-like
rotation within the bottle.
Optional: You could add a few
drops of food colouring or paint
to add colour to your hurricane.
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After-school
club in Latvia
This gives children with a
place after school where
they are safe and off the
streets. It provides a space
where they can do their
homework and have a hot meal,
plus spiritual and moral support.
The project provides an alternative
to hanging on the streets and offers
a hot supper, which they might
not receive at home. Liepa is a
depressed area of Latvia with
high unemployment, alcoholism
and drug use.
In the after-school program
they receive love, warmth, and
are taken care of, and learn
about God. Some children,
once they begin to trust,
start attending the
church Sunday School
classes.
The Liepa after-school programme is
run by the United Methodist Church in
Latvia. It has received a 2,500 Euro
grant from the World Mission
Fund in 2011 and 2012 to
support the development of
an after-school club.
Country
facts: Latvia
Some children who
attend have a
difficult family life,
so they also have
a hot meal to take
home. Many of
the children have
never been anywhere
outside their village,
and sometimes
the club goes on
outings to places
such as the zoo in
Riga.
Full name: Republic of Latvia
Capital city: Riga
Population: 2.2 million
Major languages: Latvian, Russion
Major religion: Christianity
Currency: 1 lats - 100 santims
Main exports: Timber and wood products;
fish and fish products

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Working in
Antigua
Country facts: Antigua
Capital city: St John’s City
Population: 85,700
Currency: East Caribbean Dollar
Language: English
St John’s City is the main commercial centre of
Antigua and has the largest harbour, capable of
berthing five ships, sometimes more.
Chris and Vera Lacey
are mission partners in
Antigua. They work at
the Gilbert Agricultural &
Rural Development Centre
(GARDC), where they work
with computers and train
others in computing too. Many
women and young people come
to GARDC for training, and the
young people join the Caribbean
Youth Empowerment
Programme (CYEP).
According to Chris and
Vera, the young people
receiving the training often
dropped out of school, have
no jobs and are at high risk of
joining gangs or becoming drug
dealers.
Chris says, “Despite harsh
economic conditions, the job
prospects in both the tourism
industry, and especially the
area of yacht maintenance,
appear to be strong. We’re very
hopeful that many of our current
aspiring trainees will be able to lift
themselves out of their current
circumstances and get on the
path to a great career.”
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Latvia
Pakistan
El Salvador
Cuba
Jamaica
Bahamas
Haiti
Antigua
Togo
Papua
New Guinea
Talk to God about the world
Lego tower
Build a Lego tower. Each person
who adds a block has to think of
a different country and pray for it.
Bubble prayers
Blow some bubbles and pop a bubble and pray
for each project in Rainbow.
If you feel worried about a part of the world or
a particular country, tell God about it and watch
the bubbles float away or pop them to show
that you have given that worry to God.
Playdough prayers
Shape the playdough into something you’d
like to thank God for, especially something in
creation or the world.
Happy and sad faces
Take a paper plate and draw a happy face on
one side and a sad face on the other. Hold up
the sad face to tell God about the things that
make you sad. Ask God to help you.
Use the happy face to tell God about the
things that make you happy. Say “thank you”
for them.

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Pray for the Methodist Nursery School being
built in El Salvador, and for the Cook family (Paul and
Maura Cook, their daughters Scout and Assisi and son
Saffi) who moved to El Salvador in December.
Paul and Maura will be teaching at the nursery school.
The nursery belongs to our Partner Church, the
Iglesia Metodista Evangelica del Salvador (Evangelical
Methodist Church in El Salvador).
The Evangelical Methodist Church in El Salvador is a
relatively new Church. This nursery (Kinder Metodista
in Spanish) is the first Methodist nursery in the
country. It will open in 2013. It is linked to the New
Jerusalem Evangelical Methodist Church.
The Methodist Nursery School will take up to 60
children between the ages of 4 and 6.
Balloon prayers
Blow up three balloons and
write or draw on them things
you want to say
“thank you” to God
for. Play some
music and bat the
balloons around.
When the music
stops say “Thank you,
God”. Start again.
Paper plate weaving
Take a paper plate and cut two slits at the top,
bottom and opposite sides.
Now wind wool between the slits, creating a
cross shape.
Wind the wool slowly take time to think about
God and what God might be saying to the
world. Afterwards, the plate can be used to
weave in prayers for people and places, either
drawn or written on pieces of coloured paper.
Leave these prayers caught in God’s hands.
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Tasty fundraising ideas
Bake sale
Share the stories in Rainbow with
your friends and your class at
school. Ask your teacher if you could
sell cakes or biscuits at lunchtime to
raise money for JMA and the World
Mission Fund.
Below are two recipes you could
make.
Come dine with me
Invite people from church to a “come dine
with me” evening.
Each person who cooks pays an entrance
fee to the event and each person who just
attends the event pays a fee too.
The contestants come prepared to cook
a dish of their choice and then serve the
dishes up to guests to try.
Biscuit recipe
Ingredients
☻ 175g (6oz) plain flour
☻ 100g (4oz) butter or margarine
☻ 50g (2oz) caster sugar
Preparation
1. Pre-heat oven to 150°C (300°F), Gas mark
2. (Ask an adult to help you.)
2. Cream the butter or margarine and caster
sugar together until they are light and fluffy.
Stir in the flour. Once mixed knead the
dough together until it forms a ball – add a
sprinkle of flour if the dough is at all sticky.
3. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured
surface until it is about 5mm thick.
4. Cut out the dough using your chosen
cutter.
5. Place the biscuits on a floured baking tray
and bake in the centre of the oven for 25
minutes or until golden brown.
6. Let the biscuits cool on a wire tray before
decorating.
Coconut balls (makes about 24 small balls)
Ingredients
☻ ⅓ cup sweetened condensed milk
☻ 1 ½ cups grated coconut
☻ 1 egg white
☻ 1 teaspoon vanilla
Preparation
1. Mix sweetened condensed milk with the coconut.
2. Beat egg white until stiff peaks form and then stir into milk and
coconut mixture with vanilla.
3. Mix well then shape into balls
4. Bake on a greased baking sheet or nonstick silicon sheets at
190°C (375°F), Gas mark 5 until lightly browned. (Ask an adult
to remove from pan while hot.)
Ask an adult to help you
make these recipes.

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JMA members’ page
Catshill Methodist Sunday Club
at their awards service.
The Drive Methodist Church
A special visitor arrived at the JMA presentation
service at The Drive Methodist Church, Ilford, on
Sunday 25 November, to tell the congregation
how JMA began. Sunday School teacher, Mr
Joseph Blake, (pictured
here and with the JMA
collectors) told them
how, in 1812, during
a visit to another
church, he was so
moved and inspired
by the sermon about
missionary work, that he returned to
his own church and encouraged the children in his Sunday School
class to collect for mission. You can read the full history on the
Methodist Church website.
This year The Drive raised £515 for JMA. Also during the service,
the children brought symbols to the front of the church to represent
the JMA Promise and presented a short PowerPoint presentation
highlighting a few of the sort of projects funded through JMA
collections.
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The Hollands
in Togo
The Revd Michael Holland and Sheila
Holland are mission partners in Togo,
serving the Eglise Méthodiste du Togo
(the Methodist Church in Togo). Michael
is helping the Church develop training
resources in French and Sheila is
teaching English at a local school. They
are in Togo with their two daughters
Srijana and Saffron.
Country facts: Togo
Togo is a country in west Africa bordered by
Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and
Burkina Faso to the north.
Capital City: Lomé
Population: 6.7 million
Language: French, with many other
languages too
Togo is a tropical, sub-Saharan nation, highly
dependent on agriculture, with a climate that
provides good growning seasons.

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Srijana’s Story
“When people think of Africa, often the negative
things spring to mind first. People tend to think of
poverty, droughts, famine, wars, corruption and
a poor standard of living. I’m not denying these
things exist; in Togo I encounter some of them
every day but one of the biggest lessons I’ve
learned here in Togo is hope.
“People here make the best of things. They may
live in poor sanitation, they may have limited
access to fresh water and electricity, and they may
not have enough money for school fees. But they
hope and look forward to better days and they
believe it is part of God’s will that things will get
better.
“People here choose to put family first, making
themselves selfless, never complaining, accepting
it is part of their life here on earth. They don’t
expect too much from life and they’re not upset
when not much is given as a whole. Togo is
hopeful. This steadfast hope towards a better
future is a reminder to all of us not to become
blinded by selfish
greed and to
learn a lesson
from this
small nation,
overwhelmed
by humility,
accepting life as
it comes, never
complaining. I believe
that at as a result of this
unassuming nature Togo is changing
for the better, developing slowly. Change, I believe,
should not happen all at once – it should be a
gradual procedure allowing all citizens to adapt as
I hope Togo will continue to do so.
“I believe as a missionary child here in West Africa
I have learned many lessons. I only have to look
outside to see examples of this meekness and
I believe change is coming, for those who wait
patiently and hopefully. Togo has taught me the
art of humility – although I may not have mastered
it completely I am starting to understand the
principles.”
Saffron’s Story
“My name is Saffron. I live in Togo in West
Africa. Living here in another culture is
fun; there are lots of things that are
different to Britain. There are lots of
different animals also. We have lots of
lizards living in our garden and often
find geckos inside our house. In my
class at school there are people from
many different countries. Here in
Togo not all children can go to school.
Those who are not able to go stay at
home and help with house work, cleaning,
preparing food and other things.”
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Message to JMA Secretaries
JMA is a part of the World Mission Fund. During 2011/2012 a total of £1,159,177.16 was collected
by congregations in Methodist churches for the World Mission Fund, including JMA’s contribution.
In total JMA members collected £79,370.25 of which £15,874.05 (⅕th of funds collected) was
donated to Mission in Britain Fund.
For background reading and further information, download and read the Methodist Missionary
Society Review 2012 at www.methodist.org.uk.
This is an introduction to the Methodist Missionary Society Review 2012
from the secretary, the Revd Stephen Poxon.
Dear friends,
Stephen Poxon
We have a rich heritage of engaging in God’s mission throughout the
world and from our beginnings have believed passionately that God
so loved the WORLD, and that we are called to express the reality of
that love. I encourage you to use the stories in the review widely with
congregations and church groups so that
the life-long commitment of the Methodist
Church to world mission continues to be
a vibrant reality for every member. The
DVD Discipleship on a world map is an
introduction to the programmes of the World
Mission Fund and is highly recommended
(available free from Methodist Publishing,
telephone 01733 235962).
Our worldwide Methodist family is growing and money given to the
World Mission Fund helps our Partner Churches in their growing
mission. Partner Churches enact their mission through a wide range of
activities such as bringing clean water to their communities, feeding
the poorest, rebuilding after war or natural disasters, training pastors,
sharing the love of God through mission and evangelism. We can share
in this through our gifts of money, prayer and time, which is none other
than the JMA promise: To learn, pray and serve with the worldwide
Church of Jesus Christ.
We are reminded in Deuteronomy 4:9: “But take care and watch
yourselves closely, so as neither to forget the things that your eyes
have seen nor to let them slip from your mind all the days of your
life; make them known to your children and your children’s children”
(NRSV). Let us be faithful witnesses to God’s love by retelling the
stories and be encouraged to action so that our commitment to world
mission does not ‘slip from our mind’.

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This connexional year there are two
editions of Rainbow: winter 2012/13
and spring/summer 2013. The new
JMA commissioning service for
JMA secretaries and collectors can
be downloaded from our website:
www.childrenandyouth.org.uk/
worker/JMA.
The 2013 certificate, commissioning
service and JMA Challenge
chart will be available from June
2013. Please do send in details of
fundraising activities and events to
be included in Rainbow. If you take
photographs or video, please
ensure that you have the consent
of parents and guardians and
confirm this when sending them in.
Send them to JMA:
The Children & Youth Team
The Methodist Church
25 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5JR
Email: childrenandyouth@
methodistchurch.org.uk
Why not invite a speaker to go to your local church to share their
unique, first-hand experience of the Church in an overseas context
People have found such visits uplifting, informative and challenging,
inspiring them to become more outward looking and informed about
how to support the work of world mission.
Interested For more information, please contact:
Jan Deakin
The Methodist Church
25 Marylebone Road,
London NW1 5JR
Telephone: 020 7467 5109
Email: deakinj@methodistchurch.org.uk
Please note that mission partners often have PowerPoint
presentations, music and stories to share that lend themselves to a
wide range of events such as coffee mornings, international evenings
or after Sunday lunch meetings as well as informal small groups and
midweek meetings, and that lay mission partners are happy to be
interviewed during a service if they cannot preach. We ask that inviting
churches help the mission partners by covering their travel expenses.
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Parlez-vous français
In Togo they speak French. Here are some words for you to try.
English French Pronunciation
Yes/No Oui/Non wee/non
Please S’il vous plaît seel voo play
Thank you Merci (madame/monsieur) mair-see (mah-dahm/mer-syer)
You’re welcome Il n’y a pas de quoi eel nyah pah der kwah
Here is/are Voici... vwah-see
Hello/Good morning/afternoon Bonjour, (madame/monsieur) bon-zhoor, (mah-dahm/mer-syer)
Hello/Good evening Bonsoir (madame/monsieur) bon-swahr, (mah-dahm/mer-syer)
Goodbye Au revoir oh rer-vwahr
Good night Bonne nuit bonn nwee
How are you Comment allez-vous kommahn tahlay voo
Very well, thanks Très bien, merci tray byan mair-see
Excuse me Excusez-moi ex-kewzay mwah
Do you speak English Est-ce que vous parlez anglais essker voo pahrlay ahng-glay
Can you help me Est-ce que vous pouvez m’aider essker voo poovay may-day
I don’t understand. Je ne comprends pas. zher ner kon-prahn pah
I don’t know. Je ne sais pas. zher ner say pah
Sorry Désolé(e) day-zo-lay
Leave me alone! Laissez-moi tranquille. lay-say mwah trahn-keel
Where Où oo
When Quand kahn
How Comment kommahn
Why Pourquoi poor-kwah
Who Qui kee
Which Lequel/Laquelle ler-kell/lah-kell
Where is... Où est... oo ay
How many or How much Combien kon-byan
What’s that Qu’est-ce que c’est kessker say
I’d like... Je voudrais... zher voodray
I want... Je veux... zher ver
I like it. Ça me plaît. sahm play
I don’t like it. Ça ne me plaît pas. sah ner mer play pah
OK/Agreed. Ça va/d’accord. sah vah/dah-korr
That’s fine. C’est bien. say byan
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