This infuriates the francophones, since they are quite sure the officials behind the counter can speak French.
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The simple fact that I tried to speak French first seemed to endear me to the hotel staff and the many other Parisians with whom I interacted.
Alas, it also isn't the French way to speak out against the most militant of your fellow unionists.
"He accepted the Nobel Prize but only to speak out about the fate of Algeria and the French population of Algeria".
Their knowledge of the world beyond Latin America is largely confined to the French and Italian left, and few of them speak English.
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Both men will speak in French to the trainees, the RNLI said.
EU. Besides, the Central Europeans speak English more than French.
Indeed, perhaps the surprise is that the victory of French over the dialects was not completed more quickly: in the 1850s, one in five Frenchmen still could not speak French.
Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.
Belgium, where the majority speak Dutch, would almost certainly choose French, Belgium's other official language.
His wife is French, his children speak the language and the family has a house in Paris.
But Julian Schnabel didn't speak French when he originally decided to tackle the subject matter, right?
France, incidentally, is thought to have no Iraqi assets to speak of, despite the close relationship between some French companies and Iraq.
Since he was entertaining a customer, a stylish Park Avenue blonde who gamely insisted that they speak French so that she "might mend the wreckage of what I half learned in college" much to her credit, her French was good, and much to his credit, his patience didn't fail once during a two-and-a-half-hour meal Ludot's choice of a restaurant was perfect.
In a few years, you might be able to speak Spanish, French and English--and all at the same time.
He did not posture and, unlike others, agreed to speak in French to local journalists who, as is often the case, could not master Arabic.
Having been slow to speak out, it was quick to refuse the fleeing president sanctuary on French soil.
Mitt went on the traditional Mormon mission to France after a year at Stanford, and learned to speak French fluently.
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To break down the barriers he assigned people who might otherwise never speak to one another--say, French engineers and Brazilian purchasing managers--to work together on the division's problems.
In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.
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