German Translation Required - Timo?

I'm not sure it would fit brewer's droop.

 

And Standard French?

That falls under Occitania, innit?

 

Its like snooker. I know how its done, I just don't seem to be able to do
it.

 

Heh, quite true, but I reckon that a combination of American culture invasion
along with basic school English (amongst other factors) has changed France
considerably over the last few years. Many, many more "youngsters" than before
have a decent understanding of English at the very least and IME, can get by
fairly well if needed.

I reckon civil servant entry exams will require that the entrant speaks no
English at all though.

I'm not sure that's true. Not anymore, at any rate. I used to find, when
I first move here about 11 years ago, that it was the case. In town, as
well as at the office [1].

Today, I don't think it's the situation anymore. It may bit slower in the
sticks to change attitudes, but in the big cities, people are much friendlier
and more forthcoming.

[1] It used to be French first, English second, which helped me a helluva lot
in the first few months.

 

it's not like the sock will care

 

Wasn't it said *to* Gordon Jackson?


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La tua sorella prenderebbe in culo ? should suffice.

Also not exact, but should see you exiting the shop with a shouty man
on your tail ...

Paul.

 

Yes, Gordon Jackson said "Thank you" not "I think you missed.."

 

Yes.
But French governments worked hard for more than two centuries to
suppress regional cultures and languages.
It was thoroughly done by conscription and elementary schools where
french speaking was mandatory, and a very centralised state structure
without any political, economical or cutural autonomy for the regions.

Corse, Bretagne, Pays Basque and Pays Catalan kept their language alive
but it is nonethless receeding in the young generations.

 

What is it about French and English teaching? Every English kid is
taught French for years. Every French kid is taught English for years.

Both countries' kids come out unable to speak a word of the others'
language.

Forgive me for being suspicious, but I'd want to know what the ****
those teachers have actually been *doing* all those years. Not teaching,
that's for sure. Sack the lot of them, and give the job to the baths
departments or something.

 

Have you looked under the unwashed armpits?

 

It helps if you have a hottie of a young French woman for a teacher. I'd
be willing to bet that every male member of my school that year who got
her recalls more French than from any other teacher/year.
All the rest were boring bald bastards.

 

I think I learned more French when being taught by the old hag of a
teacher than when it was the young hottie with the big tits and the
tight tops. We were all mesmerised...

 

I had the same problem with maths

 

I know, for the Catalan part.

 

But if the old hag leaned over you and you could feel her nipple in your
cheek or ear, you'd be so traumatised all the learing would go out of
the window.
The hottie, when she did that... the cunning minx, I now realise she was
employed by the French Secret Service to groom sleepers in the UK.

 

Which doesn't answer the question at all. The languages are taught
extensively and exhaustively and (on the evidence in both countries)
incompetently.

Sorry if you were unable to provide an explanation instead of
irrelevancies, but never mind. I doubt anyone could provide an
explanation, actually.

 

It ceertainly doesn't make it competent.

Because English is good enough for all practical purposes just about
anywhere in the world.

<waves Union Jack>

Next in usefulness comes Spanish, although a lot of Chinese might
disagree.... ;-) French is probably third.

 

I think English is a required language in Chinese schools these days