France tourists, and the need to learn French
We Italians know what love-hate relationship there is with our French cousins. 🙂
Well, it must be admitted that the France holds a special place among my favorite countries, and I got to write too some guides on my travels in France, as I loaded my best photos in the photogallery.
castles, the wine, the food (with all the exceptions that we Italians could argue, see the snails!), the churches, the incredible art collections, a jewel such as Paris, mean that France is, before Spain and Italy, the country with the most number of tourists in Europe. Unfortunately, We must admit that the French are not very handy with the English Language (the, at times, They pretend not to be), and the tourists end up getting information French language. From personal experience, if you decide to learn French, This can lead to misunderstandings and frustrations not bad… Imagine ordering the wrong thing at the restaurant, or go to the wrong, because you do not understand the answers you give in French!
On one side, the French language neoromanza is a language like Italian language, Italian tourists and for us it is not impossible to learn the language of France and talk like Baudelaire or, Se volete, Platini. 🙂
The other side, however, the Frenchman has a grammar that veers towards the English, and it departs more from the Italian language and from Spanish. This means that, for example, You run the risk of hitting in “fake friends”, as he explains the blog “one from Milan to Paris”, where some words in French language seem similar to others in Italian language, although it had all!
For this, as I mentioned at the beginning, After some disastrous experiences trip to France, but I have no intention of moving there to live, I decided to learn at least the basics of’French idiom and, after reading positive reviews, I decided to save or, better, not pay anything, and learn the language by Babbel. in fact, having not much time available, it suited me use their App to know the French language in the downtime, for example on the train or subway, rather than comfortably I stretched out on my bed on a Sunday afternoon while I relaxed a bit '.
Thanks to its origins Romance, in fact, learn French to Italian It was not a company so impossible… and to be honest, the difference in the trip I felt very! People are much more willing and courteous, and the restaurant will no longer have to sweat seven shirts to order something decent, because once you learn the names of the raw materials and the main dishes are always at least one dish to your liking. Let's say then that if you are intolerant or allergic to some food, knowledge of the names of the ingredients in the French language is quite important if you do not want to run the risk of not being understood and have therefore not very pleasant consequences.
Those of you who have experienced this system? Speaking fluent Italian, German and English, and knowing now discreetly French and Spanish, it's time to find another challenge not to miss the peculiarities and nuances of other countries.