We want lots of photos to satisfy our envy.
Kyrt wrote:
Maybe l'académie française is campaigning against tournaments conducted in low gothic.
1. Apparently only 1 in 4 people in France speak English - you'd likely want to be quite confident English speaker to attend a tournament conducted in that language (which they routinely are because us Brits are so ignorant). I know I'd be very apprehensive to attend one in French, even though they would go out of their way to help I'm sure. *
* Also anecdotally, having spent a large part of my career in a European international organisation - where business is conducted in English but the majority of staff are not British - I would say my French colleagues found it more 'effort' to speak English than other European nationals (followed by the Spanish).
He ... tell that to any spanish: There is the belief that almost everyone from areas outside Spain (yeah, French included) talks in English, only the spanish suck at it. What i found out by living abroad is that there is plenty of areas on the same level as Spain with foreign languages without even leaving Europe.
I think that it comes from the fact that many spanish emigrated to France/Switherland/Germany 50 years ago and back then people in that area spoke more languages due to the WW2, because i find many youngsters all over Europe that barely speak in english, even though in the last decades english is a course in all schools.
