Re: CHAT: French pronunciation

James Campbell wrote:

> When I spoke to some German tourists there in Alsace, after a few minutes
> chatting in broken German one of them asked, "... aber du bist Französisch,
> oder?" ("... but you're French, right?") I've wondered ever since if I speak
> German with a French accent.
Unlikely.  Probably just the nearest foreign language.

ObJoke (set somewhere in Europe):

A group of obvious tourists are talking together in Italian.  Another
group comes up to them, and one of the second group (B) begins speaking to
a member of the first group (A) in Spanish.

A (surprised, in Italian): Why are you talking to me in Spanish, when I'm
speaking Italian?

B (in Spanish): I don't speak Italian.  Don't you understand me?

A (in Italian) Not so well. (in French) Do you speak French?

B (in bad French) I don't speak French.  (in German) How about German?

A (still in French) I don't speak German.  (back to Italian) You speak
German and Spanish?  Tell me, where are you from?

B (back to Spanish) We are from the United States.

A (in English) We're from New York!

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