bilboburgler

There are a bunch of companies whose formal language is English on the continent. Still not so good when you are asked out for a beer ;-)

KodakMoment

Oh puh-lease...

Cathinjoetown

NewB

Quite well-liked, thank you, and if you review my posts on Fodor's I believe you'll find I am fairly tolerant.

But enough is enough. I don't care what age the OP may be, he/she is writing a load of drivel.

Despite being 99% sure this person is a troll or thick as two planks, my advice about living in France without any French was based on 6+ years of observation. It can be done.

Whathello

Don't tell us you spent 6 years in france and can't utter some French ?

And you tell about being thick as two planks ?

bilboburgler

Surely the issue is to answer the questions posed by the OP, not make judgments about the person after reading short fodor threads

Hugs to all

annhig

you mean that short posts and threads may not give one an accurate view of the poster, bilbo?

quel horreur - that had never occurred to me.

OTOH I do think that repeated posts on numerous threads can give one a very good impression of what someone is like IRL!

Cathinjoetown

Sorry to disappoint you, whathello, but I was the one others came to to help them translate letters, make phone calls, etc. I am far from fluent in French but did quite well, thanks in part to taking lessons every week for 10 months of every year we were in France, from engaging with our neighbors, the mayor and the village council, etc.

Whathello

Ah Bon ?
Peut être n'ai je pas tout compris alors.
En fait je ne parle que le français car je n'aime personne et je ne vais pas me pourrir la vie pour apprendre une langue étrangère.
Mais j'ai un diplôme a deux balles de psychologue retardée de forums.

Je peux émigrer à Londres ?

annhig

my advice about living in France without any French was based on 6+ years of observation. It can be done.>>

whathello - if it's any consolation, I misunderstood Cathinjoetown too - I thought that she was referring to herself which I now learn was incorrect.

Cath - I was surprised when I read what you'd posted as I didn't have you down as someone who wouldn't try to learn as much as you could about where you were living, and it turned out I was right!

Je peux émigrer à Londres?>>

oui, bien sur Whathello, vous avez les qualifications justes pour vivre entre les rosbifs!

NewbE

Well, if you engaged with the mayor, you can't be "thick as two planks". Can you?

Anyway, the OP wants not a country where many or even most people speak English; nor one where s/he could learn the language; but rather an English speaking country.

But I see the usual braggarts have arrived to tout their knowledge of this or that language or country...

Cathinjoetown

I did mean observing others but wasn't clear.

whathello, the French I do have doesn't approach your command of English. The OP's statements sound just as bizarre in French as they do in English.

Michael

<i>pour vivre entre les rosbifs!</i>

I would say "parmi" or "chez les rosbifs"

Whathello

Actually I sometimes fantasizes about living in UK.
York is a city i absolutely love - or maybe Manchester or Edinburgh or ... London being like Paris for me a city to go to as often as possible but not to live in. Too crowded.
I was uprooted only once and only one year but it took me a big effort to come back home.
Then I met my wife. So I'll stay where she stays.
Sur ces bonnes paroles i wish you all a good night.
Cath - thanks for your words !

Congrats to the ones writing in French it is perfectly understandable.

And yes better ´parmi les rosbifs. ´
But I prefer the less known term of ´godons' - used during the war if 100 years.

KodakMoment

<I> York is a city I absolutely love - or maybe Manchester </I>

Est-ce une blague? Y a rien à foutre à Manchester.

nytraveler

It appears we have wandered by far for the OP and his extremely odd problem. And it looks like he won;t be back - wither gave up completely or a troll (my vote).

(Although it is interesting to know how different nationalities insult one another.)

annhig

I would say "parmi" or "chez les rosbifs">>

yes, Michael, but you are probably not a graduate of the Miles Kington school of Franglais [with or without un diplôme a deux balles whatever that is] :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-maga...nitor-22655534

Cathinjoetown

à deux balles

I think in whathello's sentence it means worthless. Whathello?

Whathello

worthless !!!
2 balles = 2 cents.

retardée means 'backwards' so in the context my sentence means I am worthless in bsic psychology.

annhig

merci, Whathello. [though I think that your basic psychology is probably quite good!]

sparkchaser

<i>(Although it is interesting to know how different nationalities insult one another.)</i>

Bauer Hanswurst is my favorite German insult