The Noodle Compound V. 2.0
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Not sure on FR/Belgian etc I guess,
Again like D.C. it does not have a budget etc till after the last minute.
all I was going to say my first teacher here in the states was FR/CA and It's not the same really.
I know the software for IVR's my firm makes comes in French and French CA, and ES (for Spanish) and ES/LA for ES Latin American.
At least in France, you will have a CA accent which at least is better than sounding American to them.
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With the French it's all down to your handwriting and the version of Gaelic your accent fits.
That and a pretty girl always gets a pass.
I thought it's like "Washington - District of Columbia" over here; we count it as a State but it's just the "Top end Government Zone" not like the rest of France.
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all I was going to say my first teacher here in the states was FR/CA and It's not the same really.
I know the software for IVR's my firm makes comes in French and French CA, and ES (for Spanish) and ES/LA for ES Latin American.
At least in France, you will have a CA accent which at least is better than sounding American to them.
?
With the French it's all down to your handwriting and the version of Gaelic your accent fits.
That and a pretty girl always gets a pass.
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The frenchies once (well more then once but we chased them out everytime) tried to but they will always remember waterloo.
So no I don't live in France though I wouldn't really mind if its the south of france close or on a vineyard, with some decent cheese making people around and that the people can atleast speak english cause my french doesit le suck much.
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So no I don't live in France though I wouldn't really mind if its the south of france close or on a vineyard, with some decent cheese making people around and that the people can atleast speak english cause my french doesit le suck much.
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You're not thick at all.
Pi Delta Phi is National French Honors Society. It just means that I have done really well in my French classes that I can join a society that promotes and encourages the language, culture, literature, etc. Sigma Tau Delta is the International English Honors Society. they are similar to PDP except that organization focuses on English language, literature, writing and reading. I've done well in my English courses so I was able to join that too. Major and Minor are two things a person concentrates on when they attend college. My major is English and my minor is French; when I graduate I'll have an English degree.
Thanks! Still leaves me clueless how you can actually getto go to university though. The only time I ever been to a university was when I was still doing a private course to become a junior librarian, I needed to look and search oldfashioned reference books. Nearest by was a uni library so I went there, as it said I was allowed in. I couldn't work out their system, they developed their own, and the staff wasn't helpful at all. In the end, without saying it directly, it was made clear that they didn't want a working class girl with a peasant accent in their fancy place.
Even now I work at an academy I still feel like a fraud. Never done any generally accepted education like an academy or uni myself, just scraped myself together. I would have liked to have some sort of degree, but when I tried again a number of years ago: as I had no idea where to start or how to enroll I just asked questions. I was again given the idea that uni is no place for clueless working class peasant girls.
Even now I work at an academy I still feel like a fraud. Never done any generally accepted education like an academy or uni myself, just scraped myself together. I would have liked to have some sort of degree, but when I tried again a number of years ago: as I had no idea where to start or how to enroll I just asked questions. I was again given the idea that uni is no place for clueless working class peasant girls.
As it happens, half of Belgium once was, and the other half was once a region of the Netherlands. That wasn't a very good idea. Now these two regions got together as Belgium but, unless I'm mistaken (and Kamap can tell me if I am), these two regions don't like each other very much either and with two different languages, don't interact very well.
Kamap: Waterloo to me always just sounded like the very first idea of a watercloset. "I'm going to the loo where I'm sure there's water!"
It depends on the way you look at Belgium in the most optimistic view its just 2 parts with a capital that acts on its own.
If you look at it from language borders its 4 parts: Flemish, French, German and Brussels (According to the law you have to be able to speak Flemish and French when you work / live in Brussels (most of them only speak French)).
So Vivi is correct upto a point, its mostly Brussel that gets in the way though. Its also silly that we have 4 ministers for some things (like education). 1 for vlaanderen, 1 for the french speaking part, 1 for the german speaking part and 1 for Brussel.
We all pay ridiculous amount of taxes for it (though we have a big safety net because of those aswell).
Silly small Belgium country with way to much governement people for its own good.
If you look at it from language borders its 4 parts: Flemish, French, German and Brussels (According to the law you have to be able to speak Flemish and French when you work / live in Brussels (most of them only speak French)).
So Vivi is correct upto a point, its mostly Brussel that gets in the way though. Its also silly that we have 4 ministers for some things (like education). 1 for vlaanderen, 1 for the french speaking part, 1 for the german speaking part and 1 for Brussel.
We all pay ridiculous amount of taxes for it (though we have a big safety net because of those aswell).
Silly small Belgium country with way to much governement people for its own good.
And Belgians are not the scum of the earth.....sorry, listened to John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
You often hear, when people talk about the EU, that they want less involvement of Brussels. It's funny that the country that actually has Brussels for a capital, shares that sentiment.
You often hear, when people talk about the EU, that they want less involvement of Brussels. It's funny that the country that actually has Brussels for a capital, shares that sentiment.
A whole freaking lot of people also think that Brussels is the country and Belgium is the capital.
Not as many as those who believe that the Netherlands's capital is Denmark. Goodness, the amount of times I had to explain that the Netherlands is a country, with the language Dutch no not Deutsch, Dutch, no not Holland, Netherlands, aaargh!
HA! And that from someone from a country with a capital that was once called "New Amsterdam".
