Do you have the peach? the potato? or the banana?
Posted in language, living in france on Jul 20th, 2011
My stories about living abroad, and other things I find interesting or useful
Posted in language, living in france on Jul 20th, 2011
Posted in language on Jun 23rd, 2011
In the series of my language mistakes there hasn’t been a post for a long time. However I keep making them from time to time. read on to see the latest edition.
Posted in language, Uncategorized on May 20th, 2009
In edtion 4 of this post series about language mistakes I describe 2 more embarrassing language mistakes, one of which involves a testical.
Posted in language on Dec 21st, 2008
One of the difficult things in learning the French language is to understand which things are feminine and which are masculine. But the use of this goes ever further, let me tell you about it.
Posted in language on Dec 14th, 2008
We have been living here for about month now. The number of really bad language mistakes has dropped. However I have collected some in this 3rd language post.
Posted in language on Oct 4th, 2008
This week I won’t write to you about something French but rather something that I experienced this week. Last Wednesday I had to go to Rotterdam. I arrived at Rotterdam station, after my 3 hours in the high speed train. Let me tell you what I realized…
Posted in language on Sep 25th, 2008
I thought I’d just share some more language mistakes I have made the last couple of months. Again perhaps not suitable for our younger readers but very necessary for our older ones. To prevent mistakes alike .
Posted in language, living in france on Aug 17th, 2008
Whenever you have to move to France you have to learn the language. As I do not have any barrier to communication I just go out there and try. In doing so I make mistakes. I’ve written some of these mistakes below, beware not suitable for our younger readers