diymirage said

well, i took two years of french in high school but my attitude towards schooling wasnt the best, and to be honest, my french teacher was, can you guess?
yep, a jerk
(une grande jerk, to be exact)

so and since this was two decades ago, and i have since picked up quite a bit of spanish (which, as you know is also a romantic language, all but one french word had been lost from my memory

what is that one remaining word you as?

Oublier

true story, and therefor all the more funny (though i am sure the humor was lost to most of our members here.


now, you mention that you attempt to speak english on this forum, and off course i applaud that, but do not presume that means english is my native tongue, it is not.

now, to address the elephant in the room, i do not mean to say that you, as a singular frenchman are a jerk
but i will say that the french, as a people, have a reputation for being jerks, not being accommodating to tourist and being very nationalistic

just one bit of anecdotal evidence, when me and my wife were first dating, she had also learned french in highschool, and she wanted to try her hand at conversational french with some native speakers
so as a gung ho boyfriend i loaded up my old opel and took her for a long weekend to paris

the trip was awesome

the interaction with the locals was not
they were, in our estimation, jerks

so the next time we went to the french speaking part of belgium, and you know what?
she loved it, the people were just so much warmer

so, based on my experience, the french have a deserved reputation, but then again, to the best of my knowledge, i never met you, did i, mon ami?




wheres about in the Netherlands were you stationed?

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diymirage said

well, i took two years of french in high school but my attitude towards schooling wasnt the best, and to be honest, my french teacher was, can you guess?
yep, a jerk
(une grande jerk, to be exact)

so and since this was two decades ago, and i have since picked up quite a bit of spanish (which, as you know is also a romantic language, all but one french word had been lost from my memory

what is that one remaining word you as?

Oublier

true story, and therefor all the more funny (though i am sure the humor was lost to most of our members here.


now, you mention that you attempt to speak english on this forum, and off course i applaud that, but do not presume that means english is my native tongue, it is not.

now, to address the elephant in the room, i do not mean to say that you, as a singular frenchman are a jerk
but i will say that the french, as a people, have a reputation for being jerks, not being accommodating to tourist and being very nationalistic

just one bit of anecdotal evidence, when me and my wife were first dating, she had also learned french in highschool, and she wanted to try her hand at conversational french with some native speakers
so as a gung ho boyfriend i loaded up my old opel and took her for a long weekend to paris

the trip was awesome

the interaction with the locals was not
they were, in our estimation, jerks

so the next time we went to the french speaking part of belgium, and you know what?
she loved it, the people were just so much warmer

so, based on my experience, the french have a deserved reputation, but then again, to the best of my knowledge, i never met you, did i, mon ami?

diymirage said

well, i took two years of french in high school but my attitude towards schooling wasnt the best, and to be honest, my french teacher was, can you guess?
yep, a jerk
(une grande jerk, to be exact)

so and since this was two decades ago, and i have since picked up quite a bit of spanish (which, as you know is also a romantic language, all but one french word had been lost from my memory

what is that one remaining word you as?

Oublier

true story, and therefor all the more funny (though i am sure the humor was lost to most of our members here.


now, you mention that you attempt to speak english on this forum, and off course i applaud that, but do not presume that means english is my native tongue, it is not.

now, to address the elephant in the room, i do not mean to say that you, as a singular frenchman are a jerk
but i will say that the french, as a people, have a reputation for being jerks, not being accommodating to tourist and being very nationalistic

just one bit of anecdotal evidence, when me and my wife were first dating, she had also learned french in highschool, and she wanted to try her hand at conversational french with some native speakers
so as a gung ho boyfriend i loaded up my old opel and took her for a long weekend to paris

the trip was awesome

the interaction with the locals was not
they were, in our estimation, jerks

so the next time we went to the french speaking part of belgium, and you know what?
she loved it, the people were just so much warmer

so, based on my experience, the french have a deserved reputation, but then again, to the best of my knowledge, i never met you, did i, mon ami?




wheres about in the Netherlands were you stationed?

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wheres about in the Netherlands were you stationed?

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