Mexicans are the same as the dark blue countries. For 22 years, I have sung bilingual and Spanish songs at my church. I'm lots better than I used to be and don't murder the words as badly as I used to, but I know they appreciate that I try.
Finland is red for a very good reason. Their language is considered one of the most difficult in the world. The words themselves are not so hard, it's their grammar that will do your head in!
I do not dare attempt to speak French in France. First is that I learned Quebecois as a kid (and have since mostly forgotten it.) Second I have no ability to pronounce things correctly - for instance I say "Oy Oy Madam-oyz-elle"
(I murdered Japanese so badly that I passed my Japanese course at UCLA only by promising never to take another Japanese course.)
And in England they wouldn't even sell me train tickets because I was mutilating the names of the towns. (The Welsh, on the other hand, completely expected that outsiders would not be able to even approximate their words.)
:)) I know that the French have a bad reputation when they travel abroad, more so than other nationalities... and they also have a reputation for being grouchy! Mass tourism brings uneducated people face to face with other cultures, and this often causes sparks to fly... Such is our world :/
But to get back to the French language, it's rare for foreigners to try to speak it. That's why it's appreciated. The pronunciation is very tricky... There are lots of letters that are not pronounced the same depending on their place in the word... But this map is just a kind of joke and France is not only Paris ;))
Absolutely not! Why simply go to Paris in order to see the work of great artists, when you can go to the countryside and see where those paintings were created!
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in reply to Muse • • •I do not dare attempt to speak French in France. First is that I learned Quebecois as a kid (and have since mostly forgotten it.) Second I have no ability to pronounce things correctly - for instance I say "Oy Oy Madam-oyz-elle"
(I murdered Japanese so badly that I passed my Japanese course at UCLA only by promising never to take another Japanese course.)
And in England they wouldn't even sell me train tickets because I was mutilating the names of the towns. (The Welsh, on the other hand, completely expected that outsiders would not be able to even approximate their words.)
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I know that the French have a bad reputation when they travel abroad, more so than other nationalities... and they also have a reputation for being grouchy!
Mass tourism brings uneducated people face to face with other cultures, and this often causes sparks to fly... Such is our world :/
But to get back to the French language, it's rare for foreigners to try to speak it. That's why it's appreciated. The pronunciation is very tricky... There are lots of letters that are not pronounced the same depending on their place in the word...
But this map is just a kind of joke and France is not only Paris ;))
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Absolutely not! Why simply go to Paris in order to see the work of great artists, when you can go to the countryside and see where those paintings were created!
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