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Article #3374Re: English in France
From: rafael
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 00:00
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Please, don't use statements like "everyone can use a little beauty in their day", you mark yourself as being either a naive, sultry Frenchwoman or a schmaltzy American. Nobody, but nobody in England (unless their doing a washing up commercial on television), would be seen dead using such a phrase. It is all well and good learning to speak fluently in a second language, (although I'm English, I'm also fluent in French and German), but it gets you absolutely nowhere unless you understand the culture and social mannerism of the country whose language you are trying to speak. English may very well be the first truly `international' language, but although America shares with Great Britain the role of making English an International Language, as George Bernard Shaw wrote "Britain and the United states are two countries separated by a common language". Their is a world of difference between Carribean English, African English, American English, Indian English a well as the Queen's English. Please, your English is very good, but learn some of the social nuances, if you want to truly understand a foreign country. C'est vraiment, n'est pas? Rafael
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