<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dosraider @ Aug 19 2007, 07:21 PM) [snapback]305520[/snapback]</div>
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French native, grew up later in Dutch, some English and a bit of German ( As plenty Belgians).
Eurh, rlbell, if you pronounce your French as most Canadians it must be HORRIFIC in the ears of a native French. Really.
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Either the people that I met in France were excessively polite, to the point lying to my face, or my teachers were successful in teaching me parisian french. That was the joke-- they did not teach anglos to converse with quebecois, when I was growing up!
No, I do not pronounce my French as most Canadians, not even most French Canadians.
While my teachers deserve much credit, most of my classmates would be hard pressed to order food in a restaurant, but they could all conjugate the regular verbs. I have the possibly useful gift of being able to quickly master the rules of pronounciation for most languages written in the roman alphabet. I do not speak german, but I can read it aloud in a manner that is understandable to those that do.