Schneekugel wrote:
... So people dont seem to get, that I am a foreigner, and suddenly slap me with an avalanche of words in an speed that I am not able to follow, because of them being too many and too fast.
I used to have problems with people speaking fast French, especially on the telephone. However, as I've gained more practice I can usually follow conversations irrespective of how fast they talk. I can even cope with fast talking TV adverts now. What does throw me are regional accents. I'm fine with clearly spoken French, but I sometimes have difficulty following interviews on TV with older people in little French villages.
I still have problems with genders though. I find it very hard to attach a masculine or feminine to nouns.
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I've left WP indefinitely.
03 Dec 2013, 10:06 am
