A few months after writing my blog post Why The French Don't Speak Any Other Language, I read Jean-Benoît's Nadeau Les Français aussi ont un accent. Jean-Benoît Nadeau is French Canadian and lived two years in France to study the French. And he seemed to come to a conclusion similar to mine concerning why the French don't speak any other language, ie. that the mastery of the language is a very important thing for the French and unless they speak a foreign language perfectly, they just won't speak.
Tag - bilingual
Monday, May 25 2009
Pourquoi les français ne parlent pas de langues étrangères
Monday, May 25 2009. communication(s)
Tuesday, April 28 2009
Peau neuve
Tuesday, April 28 2009. the other words
This post exists also in English :)
Tuesday, April 22 2008
Truly multilingual
Tuesday, April 22 2008. the other words
Our neighbours are what one would call a really truly multilingual family. The mother is Swedish, the father is Italian. Together they speak English. The kids speak Swedish with their mother, Italian with their father. They lived the first years of their life in Switzerland, which means the children […]
Monday, November 19 2007
The bilingual challenge
Monday, November 19 2007. communication(s)
I have written about the interesting differences in cultural perception of the same objects, or rather of the same words. I have always been fascinated by the easiness with which I navigate from one language to another, namely French and English. And I am equally fascinated by the difficulty I have […]
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