Improving Grey waste pipe emptying

[barryd]

I preface all communication with french and Spanish (using Spanish equivalent ) people with,

Bonjour, je suis in Irlandais. Je parle le Francis, mais tres mal.

Works wonders, shows you are trying, and that you are not English!

Davy

I'm really good at speaking French or at least I think I am. They fall about laughing and I can rarely understand the response (Michelle does though). I think they reckon I am this guy.

 

[Robmac]

I preface all communication with french and Spanish (using Spanish equivalent ) people with,

Bonjour, je suis in Irlandais. Je parle le Francis, mais tres mal.

Works wonders, shows you are trying, and that you are not English!

Davy

If asked if I speak French I always say "Un peu".

I can actually speak French reasonably well, I just can't understand a Frenchman speaking to me coz they're too fast.

 

[TeamRienza]

Nail on head Rob, I can get by and converse for about 5 minutes before I start sweating and lose it.
It's the replies that get me flustered, too fast too long, and likely with a regional accent. Even when I ask them to talk as I was a small child, I'm bate as we say at home.

Davy

 

[YeoBlade]

When we stopped in an aire on the way back last month we were chatting away with a French lady, I turned out she was an English teacher in the local school. Her English was perfect but a slight accent, we learnt latter that at Uni she had her UK language experience exchange in Newcastle , when she got there she thought she'd got on the wrong plane

 

[TeamRienza]

Had a similar experience with the receptionist on a campsite in Oleron saint Marie. French born and bred, spoke English with a Glasgow accent (God help the wee soul). She lived and worked there for about 9 years. She Loved getting all the English language novels my wife gave her. Lightened the van by about 30kg!

Davy