I will take this opportunity to brag about my proudest french moment. I went to a museum and the guy asked for my zip code, and I said, oh it doesn't matter, I'm from new york. and the guy was like, what? really?? this was the greatest moment in my life

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the tragedy of language learning is that it is never impressive. the best you can get is as good as a random 20 year old nobody thinks is all that special. and that will never ever happen lol

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and it occurred to me that this is the sole reward of french learning: Half following some french guy because you sound like you speak french enough that a frenchman finds the idea of using his broken english annoying. I will never get better than that

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once I was in a sort of small city in france, and I asked a hotel guy "bonjour, est-ce que vous parlez anglais?" (do you speak english) and he looked at me strangely and said "vous parlez francais" (you speak french), because he preferred to just keep speaking french

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this is my favorite Hard Times headline, I think about it every time I see the words "remastered" on a reissue which means pretty much every time I see a reissue

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