It seems I'm making some progress but it's hard to be sure. There was a moment tonight when I suddenly thought "oh this is all like completely in French and I almost didn't notice". Which is good. Still a long way to go though. My spoken French is often loud, clear, expressive and charmingly wrong.
I wonder if 38 years of migraines have done something to my neural pathways making it harder to learn a language. It's possible. It's also possible that I'm just old and have an old brain and the language-learning bit was switched off many years ago.
Well, whatever. I'll just keep conjugating, waving my hands about and saying "hmmmm?" until it sticks. Which could be some time.
The John Le Mesurier eyebrow is definitely preferable and so much more elegant than my own gormless habit of saying 'qué' which sounds like Manuel from Fawlty Towers.
ReplyDeleteI find saying "hmmmmm?" also just sounds like you didn't quite catch what they said, rather than you being a complete retard who can't understand a simple question. That's me, not you, obviously.
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