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To: Susan Saline who wrote (43)	11/15/1999 5:51:00 PM
From: Green Receipt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 172

froids = cold! yes french is one of the langues... I was born and raised mostly in the US. Even though I used to live near Tours, France in a tiny hamlet and was fluent in the language, when I came to the US, I flunked college french. I got an F because I was always arguing with the professor. He would write some crazy sentence on the board and tell us that is how its spoken in france. And then stupid me would raise my hand and challenge almost every sentence he wrote up there. I think he hated me. The exams turned out to be spitting back word for word every sentence he wrote on the board. Since I hadn't bothered to memorize them (after all, they were wrong), I received an F in French. Thats what I got for being young, stubborn, and arrogant. After receiving the F, I asked the professor why he taught that way and he said that was how he learned it. I felt sorry for him and sorry that I thought I could do well in a language I already had spoken. But that sort of arrogance is common among people that study languages. Often its the non native US speakers that speak/write the true english language. When I went to france, I had taken a crash course in french and thought I knew the language. I found out rather quick i only knew the surface and so I immersed myself in the culture and became a fluent speaker in less than a month.