learning french.
yesterday, as i was killing time between work and a meeting, i found myself in a decision to brush up on my french. so i bought some cds, thinking i would make use of my commute. i put the first cd in right after the meeting to start lesson 1.lesson one contained a conversation i'm betting i will never have. and even if i did have it, my responses would be entirely different. because i'm not an architect and i wasn't born in bordeaux. but that's okay. i got a few basics down and while i wouldn't be able to have what one would call an intelligent conversation, i could speak like i knew what i was doing.
and on to lesson 2. the setup was the same as lesson one... someone is approached by a market researcher and asked questions. again, i learned a conversation that i will never have, since i still wasn't born in bordeaux, i do not live in a small apartment and i am not a civil servant. i still would not be able to have an actual conversation, but hey, it's only lesson two.
but this is what i do know:
i know how to be rude in french. see, both individuals rather rudely interrupted the "market researcher" to end the conversation. i do not have time. i have to go. they're both too hurried to answer a few questions.
so if i can muster it, i can be rude, should i ever find myself in france.
which, according to stereotypes, would help me fit right in. these cds, they're really good. it's only lesson two and i have already learned the essence of stereotypical frenchness.
posted by julie @ 3:04 PM
2 Comments:
Thats funny stuff right there!
Yikes! While my heart knows that every face is an opportunity to receive God present . . . I often revert to my high school french when responding to mall vendors. Non! Non! :)
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