je voudrais sous pommes de terres, síl vous plais

Friday, October 14, 2005

having finished my first week at the bilingual school, i´ve been
evaluating whether it would work in england; and i´ve come to a
decision...

...no, it wouldn´t.

we´re so lazy in england when it comes to learning languages, and of
all the ones we learn at school, it´s french. great.

nothing against french, of course, but it´s even lower in the top 20
world languages chart than britain is at eurovision (click for proof). surely, in
a capitalist world, the point of speaking another language is so you
can sell your potatoes to as many people as possible; and frankly,
there are plenty more people who speak something except french. it
just seems strange to me.

nevertheless, i see that the first british bilingual school is opening
in battersea next year (link), so i´ll definately be interested to see
how successful it is. oh, and three guesses as to what the other
language is?

yep, french.

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:: Anonymous Anonymous commented Friday, October 14, 2005 4:38:00 PM

'I would like under potatoes please?'

Really, you bring shame upon the other European Studies students of this world.

(That would be the four of us, then).

Katherine    



:: Anonymous Anonymous commented Saturday, October 15, 2005 12:17:00 AM

You, Matt, are a blogging machine!

And since when did the French language have an accented i?!    



:: Blogger Matt commented Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:24:00 AM

it´s the keyboards fault. there is an accent key on the keyboard. when i press it, if the next letter i press (if it is possible to have an accent) will indeed be given an accent.

it is in the same place the apostrophe key is on a ´normal´keyboard

my apologies    



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