28.8.08

parlez-vous frenglitalian?

It took a ferry, a train, the metro, and an unexpected night in Cherbourg, but I made it! And Paris, for the day that I get to spend here, has been mostly happiness. Biggest problem? I speak just enough French that people reply as if I'm fluent. It only gets worse if they happen to see my last name.

I also have the hardest time separating my French lessons from the Italian, so I make for quite the mangled mess of a conversationalist.

3 comments:

Annie said...

oui. si. noi parlez ensieme...ensemble a Corsica.

Andino said...

oh goodness. I wish so badly I could be there.

Allie said...

I empathise very much with that problem. We played French Balderdash a few weeks ago and I kept putting German words in by mistake. You'd think French and German were different enough!