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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
Wine should be important to learn in any language, you being French  |
yep !
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And that's why I don't go to France. I don't speak one word of French (those three years of French at high school were waisted on me...) I did learn on key phrase though:
Je ne parle pas Francais, vous parlez Anglais?
Don't mind the spelling, spelling isn't important when you're speaking  But, at least I think I'm being polite by using the polite form of you...
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hm, you're right : that's not one word, it's eight.
to me, that is enough for me to consider you made an effort, and help you out.
i think most french people would agree.
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My German is passable though, but that's mostly because it looks a lot like Dutch and I often go to Switzerland (the German speaking part).
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my dutch is nearly as good as my german (which, i admit, is not very good, so you can extrapolate the level of my dutch from there
), because it's quite close to german and a bit to english. right now the only things i remember from when i was visiting the netherlands are : "brod kaas" (or is it spelled "brot kaas" ???) which is what i ate every time we stopped for lunch in a pub, and "kunst" which is what i was travelling around seeing. mainly because i was travelled half the trip with a friend who had cousins there who took us around on a driving tour one day (and in one day, we visited the entire country !! the netherlands are quite small) and since he knew i was studying art, every time he saw a statue in the road or a museum or anything like that he would shout out "Kunst !" and point at it.
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Btw, what you say about not even trying: I went interrailing once and we went to Copenhagen (that's in Denmark, for those geographically challenged amongst us). There was an interrail desk there, that was serviced by Danish students, who wanted to help those interrrailers through their beautiful city. Now, the Danish speak good English, maybe some German, but most certainly not French. So, we went there, and there were these three French guys. Who only spoke French and even when the person sitting behind the counter said he didn't speak French, they kept on talking in French...
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yep, every population has to have at least a few rude tourists...