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From: rafael <keelerad@tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: English in France
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Please, don't use statements like "everyone can use a little beauty in 
their day", you mark yourself as being either a naive, sultry 
Frenchwoman or a schmaltzy American. Nobody, but nobody in England 
(unless their doing a washing up commercial on television), would be 
seen dead using such a phrase. It is all well and good learning to speak 
fluently in a second language, (although I'm English, I'm also fluent in 
French and German), but it gets you absolutely nowhere unless you 
understand the culture and social mannerism of the country whose 
language you are trying to speak. English may very well be the first 
truly `international' language, but although America shares with Great 
Britain the role of making English an International Language, as George 
Bernard Shaw wrote "Britain and the United states are two countries 
separated by a common language". Their is a world of difference between 
Carribean English, African English, American English, Indian English a 
well as the Queen's English. Please, your English is very good, but 
learn some of the social nuances, if you want to truly understand a 
foreign country. C'est vraiment, n'est pas?

Rafael  


