Retire to Paris, anyone?
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Vive la France!
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my oldest son moved to France three years ago. My daughter is going over for a year on a student visa to give it a try in a couple of months. My ex-wife is in the process of moving probably permanently to the south of France. If two of my kids end up living over there, I may have to actually learn a little bit of the stupid language.
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One of my best friends in college spent a year at the University of Paris.
I couldn't. My parents' friends from Nice ruined the French language for me.
They'd say something in French and have me say it. No! Always no.
I had no attitude for it anyway.
I took a year of French (middle school I guess) and got 65/100.65 is a D-. 64 is an F as I'm sure you know.
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Heard a Misssouri governor from a town near my hometown trying to speak French on the radio. My French sounds like his, horrible.
When in France or mexico or wherever, the natives always flinch when they hear me try to speak their language.
I blame it on what the linguists have called a patois that is spoken in and around my hometown and my lousy hearing. -
Someone I follow on YouTube put out this informative video today...
Link to video
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I've been to Paris a handful of times. It's said that Parisians hate Americans, but that's not true. Parisians hate everyone.
And as for the language ... if I went in to a cafe and tried to order in French, they'd respond in English. Go into the same cafe, the next day, try to order in English ... they'd act as if they don't speak English.
Outside of Paris, the people were friendly and lovely.
I forget who said it, but the saying goes that Paris is a beautiful city that Parisians don't deserve.
