I'm impressed, Bobby. I took French for a couple of years in high school and can get by reading it in type but I get lost if people are speaking it fast.Bobby wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:11 pmA lot better - I can watch the French news and understand most of it.
Macron Mouthing off Again
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Black Orchid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:18 pmI'm impressed, Bobby. I took French for a couple of years in high school and can get by reading it in type but I get lost if people are speaking it fast.
I spent 3 months in France once and one week another time
and I had French housemates at one stage and also took private lessons.
I also studied it at school which was a good basis for learning more.
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Well done!Bobby wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:32 pmBlack Orchid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:18 pmI'm impressed, Bobby. I took French for a couple of years in high school and can get by reading it in type but I get lost if people are speaking it fast.
I spent 3 months in France once and one week another time
and I had French housemates at one stage and also took private lessons.
I also studied it at school which was a good basis for learning more.
My experience with french was I was studying french in my first year at high school and had a serious accident in the first few weeks and missed a lot of school as a result.
Net result was I only ever passed French once in three years of half yearly exams.
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You poor boy.Redneck wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:35 pmWell done!Bobby wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:32 pmBlack Orchid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:18 pmI'm impressed, Bobby. I took French for a couple of years in high school and can get by reading it in type but I get lost if people are speaking it fast.
I spent 3 months in France once and one week another time
and I had French housemates at one stage and also took private lessons.
I also studied it at school which was a good basis for learning more.
My experience with french was I was studying french in my first year at high school and had a serious accident in the first few weeks and missed a lot of school as a result.
Net result was I only ever passed French once in three years of half yearly exams.
I did it for 5 years at school.
My Grandmother spoke French and gave me lessons
so I was often top of the class.
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My parents were bushies not long off the farm and I dont think they appreciated what was happening re my education with me off schoolBobby wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:43 pmYou poor boy.Redneck wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:35 pmWell done!Bobby wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:32 pmBlack Orchid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 02, 2021 4:18 pmI'm impressed, Bobby. I took French for a couple of years in high school and can get by reading it in type but I get lost if people are speaking it fast.
I spent 3 months in France once and one week another time
and I had French housemates at one stage and also took private lessons.
I also studied it at school which was a good basis for learning more.
My experience with french was I was studying french in my first year at high school and had a serious accident in the first few weeks and missed a lot of school as a result.
Net result was I only ever passed French once in three years of half yearly exams.
I did it for 5 years at school.
My Grandmother spoke French and gave me lessons
so I was often top of the class.
I doubt I would have let one of my kids be off school for a long period without making some arrangements for lessons /tutoring to be provided!
Anyway shit happens!
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The former European Commissioner said "there are of course lessons to be learned from Brexit" and insisted that it would be wrong to dismiss Britain's decision to leave the EU simply as an act of "populism". Instead, he acknowledged that Britons felt "abandoned" by the EU and were concerned, as citizens of other European nations are concerned, by EU-related issues, including uncontrolled immigration.
Talking to French journalist Jean-Sébastien Ferjou for Atlantico, Mr Barnier said that by voting for Brexit, Britons expressed a "popular feeling".
He said: "It is a feeling of abandonment, of not being protected enough by Europe, of no longer having a future, no more proper public services, no more factories for young people, or of being subjected to uncontrolled immigration.
"These British concerns exist elsewhere in Europe and they exist in France."
He added that "we must understand them, listen to them and respond to them".
Mr Barnier is running to be elected the next President of France.
He said that his understanding of what led to Brexit will help him to lead France and to prevent a future 'Frexit'.
Mr Barnier never goes so far as to suggest Britain was right to leave the EU, the subtitle of his new book on Brexit reading "The Grand Illusion".
While Mr Barnier identifies as a European, he insisted that he is first and foremost a French "patriot".
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/eu ... np1taskbar
Hopefully Macron will be shown the door.
Talking to French journalist Jean-Sébastien Ferjou for Atlantico, Mr Barnier said that by voting for Brexit, Britons expressed a "popular feeling".
He said: "It is a feeling of abandonment, of not being protected enough by Europe, of no longer having a future, no more proper public services, no more factories for young people, or of being subjected to uncontrolled immigration.
"These British concerns exist elsewhere in Europe and they exist in France."
He added that "we must understand them, listen to them and respond to them".
Mr Barnier is running to be elected the next President of France.
He said that his understanding of what led to Brexit will help him to lead France and to prevent a future 'Frexit'.
Mr Barnier never goes so far as to suggest Britain was right to leave the EU, the subtitle of his new book on Brexit reading "The Grand Illusion".
While Mr Barnier identifies as a European, he insisted that he is first and foremost a French "patriot".
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/eu ... np1taskbar
Hopefully Macron will be shown the door.
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