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Old Jun 16th, 2007 | 08:39 AM
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Some French lessons:

(If you don't get it straight away, watch to the very end)
http://frogwithablog.wordpress.com/2.../14/henry-who/

A bit more useful is:
http://www.cestsoparis.com/attitude-game.php
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Old Jun 16th, 2007 | 08:58 AM
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LOL
You have to excuse those of us who have, unfortunately only one language.
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Old Jun 16th, 2007 | 09:57 AM
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I always try to learn a bit of the language...and think I'm doing great until I get where I'm going. I have butchered the names of many a French town...or food dish and will likely continue to do so. It's not that I'm not trying...its not easy to grasp all the exceptions for pronouncation.

For instance St-Cirq-la-Popie...who knew Popie was pronounced (poopie...like dog doo)...I think it sounds so much more appealing to pronouce it like the flower Poppie.

I'm sure a few people gave me the Camembert and Ras le Bol on my last trip.
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Old Jun 16th, 2007 | 10:51 AM
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Um...Popie does not rhyme with poopie. There's no long oo sound. Rather it's roughly poh-pee
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Old Jun 16th, 2007 | 11:07 AM
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I guess were not the only people to mispronouse the names of towns. It was Rudie Maxa...on his Dordogne and Lot show last week that we heard it pronounced that way. We said oh no...we butchered that one too.

We heard Dordogne pronounced at least 3 different ways. The Audio commentary on our Gabare trip was very British and we thought we had learned how to pronouce it then....but we used that same ladies pronouncation for La Roque Gageac and were corrected by a local.

We tried and but seemed to get it wrong a lot.
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Old Jun 16th, 2007 | 11:17 AM
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>We tried, but seemed to get it wrong a lot.<

As Mark Twain once noted, "Those foreigners spell OK, but their pronunciation is terrible".

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Old Jun 16th, 2007 | 11:29 AM
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Well, even after 16 years it still cracks me up to hear all the British expats talk about living in the Dor-doyn!
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Old Jun 16th, 2007 | 11:39 AM
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I'm happy to know that while our "kind" video maker was fumbling with his map that this "tourist" didn't pick his pocket.
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Old Jun 16th, 2007 | 11:51 AM
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I doubt if there was much map-fumbling in reality, Dukey, just a little dramatic licence.
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