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>>I actually learned quite a bit, but I'm still very slow at speaking the language. My vocabulary should be better too ... I'm always searching for the correct word to use.
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>When that happens to me I think of a posher way of saying the word in English, then pronounce that word as if it were French, et le plupart du temp j'ais raison.
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>e.g. Magic = Prestidigitation :-)
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>>I could also use a lot more practice with verb conjugation, although I've come quite a long way in the past month. All in all, it was a pretty effective way to learn French, in my opinion of course. Now I just need to practice more, because I think Gary's taking me to Nice again for my birthday in November!
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>Get yourself on a French camp-site and ask to be pitched near the French families. That way you're exposed to them froim the moment you exit the tent/van/trailer in the mornings. Staying in a hotel one is isolated from everyone else anyway.
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>Mind you, in Nice you'll need to learn a whole new French pronunciation, as they have a sort of franco-hispano-italian thing going on. e.g
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>Vouleez-vous manger avec moi? -> "voolee voo MANzhee avec moi?"
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>Praline - un franc le paquet -> "Praleen - an frank le packee"
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>Vous ne povez pas regarder le tele -> "Voo ne poovee pa regardee le tellee"
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>BTW, don't be expecting golden sands in Nice, like Cannes - it's all shingle beaches - bit of a disappointment :-)
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Who exactly are you advising Bonnie to expose herself to? The French?
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