Yay for random Frenchmen!
Once again this evening, I engaged in my favourite hobby - having indepth and personal conversations with strangers. This time in French. Well, except for the indepth and personal bit. Hah. I was at work, and I recognised an accent and I thought it was Spanish, would you believe, but when I asked the guy where he was from, he said France. Well, this took me aback, so I went into the kitchen to call his order, and that was all good. Then I found some leftover courage in the bottom of my shoe and used it to actually talk to him.
The following conversation was then had (in French)
Rosie: Sorry, I thought you were Spanish.
Random Frenchman: No, I'm not.
Rosie: Evidently
Friend of Random Frenchman: You speak French?
Rosie: Yes. I spent a year in Quebec.
FoRF: Oh, then you'd know "Tabarnac" (note to English readers - very bad word. Do not say it.)
RF: Oh yeah, "Tabarnac"
Rosie: Yeah, I know. It was the first word I learnt at school.
Anyway, there was more, where I explained that I was majoring in French, and they told me that my French is excellent for a New Zealander. I asked them what they were doing in New Zealand and their reply was somewhere along the lines of "well, we got on a plane and kind of ended up here". Except, evidently, in French. Good-o. My sister who works with me at the Chinese restaurant rolled her eyes and apparently commented "Rosie's showing off again". She's just jealous coz I know more Spanish that she does German in three weeks. She's been studying German for a year and a half. The conversation ended when their food arrived. But it was a cool conversation.
I've been slack this week - it's been an okay week, actually. One thing I really gotta do, though - take a leaf out of my mate Tal's book and ACTUALLY STUDY FOR GERMAN. We actually studied a bit this afternoon. And had carrot cake. I bought this awesome top at the Family Store today, except that it's a little revealing. As in my breasts are hanging out. So we'd really better remedy this situation. Pam suggests a safety pin. I might just wear a camesol underneath it. It's pretty, though - red and blue striped. Not a very obvious Rosie choice. Hmm...
Other randomness: the new girl at work is the daughter of my old French teacher. She's so little! A real cutie. What else... oh, Filo made me a beautiful cover page for SPAN111. With flowers. Hmm.. he's odd. Amanda and I weren't lesbians in FREN215... loooong story. Put this somewhat into context - Amanda: "Je suis un homme!" Anyway... ooh, I also bought toe socks at the Family Store. They're blue.
As I write (type), I am motoring through this Chinese food. It's yummy, but spicy. I wanted the satay chicken - but now I kind of don't feel like it. And I have all these spicy noodles. Oh well. I have chocolate, too. And guess what? I got told I have an amazing singing voice from an unexpected source. Oooer. It's nice to know. Only 2 weeks or so til Easter! I have to write an essay! About the NZ flag! In French! And there's a German test next Wednesday. Das ist schlecht.
Shout out to my dear twin Carol. Je t'aime! Ich liebe dich. Te amo. I love you. (See? Four languages! That's a lot of love.) An un-bouncy Carol is not good. I'm going to cyber-beam you some of my pent-up energy. We're just going to have to share this energy. I need it back at some stage. Shall we create a roster? Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, alternate Sundays? ;) Love you babe. And praying for you. God Bless.
Better be a-jetting - Tschus!
ALP,
Rosie
The following conversation was then had (in French)
Rosie: Sorry, I thought you were Spanish.
Random Frenchman: No, I'm not.
Rosie: Evidently
Friend of Random Frenchman: You speak French?
Rosie: Yes. I spent a year in Quebec.
FoRF: Oh, then you'd know "Tabarnac" (note to English readers - very bad word. Do not say it.)
RF: Oh yeah, "Tabarnac"
Rosie: Yeah, I know. It was the first word I learnt at school.
Anyway, there was more, where I explained that I was majoring in French, and they told me that my French is excellent for a New Zealander. I asked them what they were doing in New Zealand and their reply was somewhere along the lines of "well, we got on a plane and kind of ended up here". Except, evidently, in French. Good-o. My sister who works with me at the Chinese restaurant rolled her eyes and apparently commented "Rosie's showing off again". She's just jealous coz I know more Spanish that she does German in three weeks. She's been studying German for a year and a half. The conversation ended when their food arrived. But it was a cool conversation.
I've been slack this week - it's been an okay week, actually. One thing I really gotta do, though - take a leaf out of my mate Tal's book and ACTUALLY STUDY FOR GERMAN. We actually studied a bit this afternoon. And had carrot cake. I bought this awesome top at the Family Store today, except that it's a little revealing. As in my breasts are hanging out. So we'd really better remedy this situation. Pam suggests a safety pin. I might just wear a camesol underneath it. It's pretty, though - red and blue striped. Not a very obvious Rosie choice. Hmm...
Other randomness: the new girl at work is the daughter of my old French teacher. She's so little! A real cutie. What else... oh, Filo made me a beautiful cover page for SPAN111. With flowers. Hmm.. he's odd. Amanda and I weren't lesbians in FREN215... loooong story. Put this somewhat into context - Amanda: "Je suis un homme!" Anyway... ooh, I also bought toe socks at the Family Store. They're blue.
As I write (type), I am motoring through this Chinese food. It's yummy, but spicy. I wanted the satay chicken - but now I kind of don't feel like it. And I have all these spicy noodles. Oh well. I have chocolate, too. And guess what? I got told I have an amazing singing voice from an unexpected source. Oooer. It's nice to know. Only 2 weeks or so til Easter! I have to write an essay! About the NZ flag! In French! And there's a German test next Wednesday. Das ist schlecht.
Shout out to my dear twin Carol. Je t'aime! Ich liebe dich. Te amo. I love you. (See? Four languages! That's a lot of love.) An un-bouncy Carol is not good. I'm going to cyber-beam you some of my pent-up energy. We're just going to have to share this energy. I need it back at some stage. Shall we create a roster? Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, alternate Sundays? ;) Love you babe. And praying for you. God Bless.
Better be a-jetting - Tschus!
ALP,
Rosie
posted by Rosie @ 9:41 pm
1 Comments:
At 11:31 am,
Blinky The Potato Girl said…
Hehe, that sounds cool - I'd love to learn another language well enough that I could have random conversations with people. Learning languages is one of my 'plans' - not really doable right now, but it will happen, it will! I'd quite like to learn Japanese, Russian, German, French and Spanish, but I don't think I'll try that all at once...
Lucie
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