poison ivy
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I too had years of French in school, Used to drive my son nuts when he was taking Spanish as he would ask in Spanish, I’d start to reply in Spanish but always ended up flipping to French! I will have to start dusting it off & practicing. JQ - I think it might be something like this -
s'il vous plaît je voudrais une autre baguette
You are going to do great in France! JQ and I on the other hand ......... well that's another story.
We need to stick close to you in France.
totally agree but there's a slim chance of this so you better learn some French!
We're gonna be in big trouble on this next trip. Most of the itinerary is in France and as of right now neither of us speaks a word of their language. I can picture it now.... we're stumbling our way through a conversation, and a fast speaking rep just talks circles around us.Aha, Tres Bien ! Now the risk you run when asking someone how much in their native language is they are likely to answer that way. The French speak so fast it is hard for me to track the numbers. While it feels the French Canadians speak quick, I don't think they can hold a candle to the French but a smile and thank you go a long way.
That's great that your daughter is practicing her French. Now that I think about it, we must have looked like the village idiots with that "how much" routine. Well looks like we're gonna get another chance so we'll see how we do next year.When we were on the Rhine River Cruise, DD's experience was that if someone spoke to the shopkeepers in French they would switch to English. Since she wanted to practice her French, she would just smile and wait for French to be spoken...she apparently had some very nice conversations (sadly as a monoglot I have no idea what they said...maybe "my mother is the idiot who can't speak French?"). In Montreal she would converse with locals as much as they would allow. Glad my insistence on her taking both French and Spanish is occasionally helpful