Re: French pronunciation (Was: Re: Fw: [wika] Boreanesian)

> >It also comes from the fact that we French are particularly intolerant in
> >the way foreigners speak our language. For us, you have only one
> >alternative: you speak French perfectly or you don't speak it at all. If
> >you don't speak it very well, you'd rather not try to talk in French
> >because people won't even try to understand you.>
I discovered last summer that this is only really true in Paris and
thereabouts. My ex-girlfriend and I were in Aix-en-Provence, and we were
treated substantially better there than Paris in relation to our
French-speaking attempts.

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