29-May-2019, 14:43
(29-May-2019, 07:11)Jean-Marie Wrote: You are very welcome and I'm glad I could help.
and I appreciate the effort to speak french... you just need to practice a bit more and it will be perfect!
Jean-Marie
J-M,
I haven't studied French since high school, and I get few opportunities to practice. The latest was a few years ago in Montréal, where they speak some crow-pigeon squeak-drone they call French — don't worry, I am not fooled. I also note that the pitiful state of the world's diplomacy coincides with the decline in French speaking. Coincidence? Peut-être. Ou peut-être non.
My Spanish is slightly better, and I do try in French or Spanish when I am traveling. I think people are grateful for the effort, especially when dealing with Americans. (What? We don't own the entire world?! "Plus des glaçons dans mon eau, vite, vite!") As my daughter asked many years ago in a museum in Venice when she was 7 years old: "Daddy, why is everybody who is yelling speaking in English?" Too smart for her own good! She is 20 (yesterday!), fluent in Spanish and just beginning French, thank goodness.
Enough autobiography. Thank you very much again!
