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>i was with a french girl a few years back, and talking about the way certain letters have a circumflex over them, like hôtel, indicating that the word, in older French, used to have an "S" after such letters (ie "hostel"), from the orig Latin. eg Forêt, Fenêtre (Latin fenestra). She was dead impressed, saying that not many French know that. A case of the innate speaker not knowing the rules. I guess that's why so many English speakers say "I could of done that".
Would you say you are fluent in French? How do you maintain the fluency? By reading French (books, magazines)? (or by picking up French girls? :))
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