Dad-1 wrote:Welcome aboard gibeth,
Where may one expect to find a Frenchman, but mostly in France.
Your English is enough to put most of us to shame. The British are awful at learning languages,
you put us to shame.
Thanks. To be honest, I write better in english than I speak. My accent is more french than my train layouts
But it's the same in french ! Writing has never been a problem for me, as long as I remember. The words come better to my hand than to my mouth...
And I had a good teacher... whose became my father in law
So I watched and listened a lot of BBC broadshows.
In fact, there is something between my family in law and England : my father in law and mother in law have been english teachers, as my wife's aunt and grand-mother, and my wife studied philosophy during one year in Durham.
It explain that I have been exposed to a lot of english contents since 20 years now.
Dad-1 wrote:We do have an excuse - so many other peoples use English we can be lazy and get away with it !!
Yes, and I think it's the same for all english spoken countries.
The english language is a problem for a lot of french peoples but it would be worse if french was the most spoken language.
Dad-1 wrote:However we are probably much better at railways.
Well, I have to say : well done
I laughed a lot to this final punch
To be serious five minutes ^^ at least you have a lot more enthousiasts than us. And the problem is that, with the crazy prices in France, is difficult to new comers to come, if I can say. It's possible (I began when I didn't have regular incomes) but you have to be brave !
End2end wrote:Bonjour et bienvenue.
Thanks
End2end.
Merci pour l'accueil
