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Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
Don't forget to leave a review of the French and other European campsites you have visited!
25/2/2015 at 2:42pm
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Sue - school French is very formal, and I suppose is a good grounding. As you now realise it bares little resemblance to conversational French. Comment Allez vous, become Ca Va?. Likewise it is unliekly tat you would say " Je Voudrais deux bierre, sil vous plai", you are much more liekely to say "Deux Bierre sil vous plait, ce toute". I think it is useful to throw in little pleasantries too. 'd'accord', it show a more relaxed approach to the language. I buy French Vogue a) becasue I prefer the content b) beacuse i9t is my subject, then I can try and decypher the language and gain a greater understanding. It has to be fun. I hated French at school, but I love it now. Many people understand more than they speak but this will eventually balance out and you'll have much more to say with confidence.
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Well we are not on our own, the Dutch seem to have a hard time speaking French as much as we do, but I guess the Dutch have to cope with their own language and English as well, not to mention adding French to their repertoire.
Anyway I have done a fair few French night school course in my time, even got the certificates to prove it, but if I am trueful I have never been able to grasp the language, but I always try to speak a little French when we are over in France, but it never goes as planned.
For me I think the only way I could learn to speak French properly is to go and live there for a year or three.
I did see an article on the BBC News the other day, there is now a computer program that converts the spoken word in real time, to your language of choice.
I will only be a matter of time, before this technology filters down into a handheld device, of course you would need two units, one for yourself and one for your intended foreign speaking victim.
In fact I would find such a device quite useful, even down at my local Tesco, I wonder if they will program Polish into as well?
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