Foreign tongues don’t happen easy

Speaking French, Farsi, Spanish, otherwise Vietnamese, Im all too aware to I sound like a jackass.Other relatives, not so much. next to a restaurant fashionable Provence, I winced equally a British tourist made a fool of himself fashionable horrible French, ordering cocka front line coq au vin and frizzy larduns frisée au lardons. Yet the waiter ate it up and understood each word. as he inwards by the side of our submit, by contrast, I may well barely cause a word revealed, so hung up I was on proper conjugation and gender agreement.Which prompts the question: Is it better to say a the minority things well, before many things badly? If youre too concerned with linguistic correctness, you wind up behind le bois pour les arbres.

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