Re: Ask a frenchman
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It looks like I'll be taking an unexpected trip to France between Christmas and New Years. I spent about two weeks in France many moons ago. I didn't and don't speak much French. I was accompanied by someone who spoke French but at times not knowing French that well was a problem. Not sure what it's like today. I'll be flying into Paris and I'll do some sight seeing. Then to visit someone in the French countryside. Any tips, info about picking up enough French to get by greatly appreciated. Any other info greatly appreciated for a USA resident that hasn't been there in a very, very long time.
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Go pick up one of those small pocket French-English translation dictionaries and carry it around with you from now on. Look up a few common words you might use every day til you go...you know "price", "ticket", etc etc, if you can stumble a clunky sentence and have enuf vocabulary to get the message across, people are impressed that you're at least trying the lingo instead of relying on them being able to speak english that they'll usually be more helpful & friendly toward you. imo
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