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[QUOTE="AlwynWellington, post: 570633, member: 13479"] [USER=6674]@Roamer35[/USER] , hi I started at Le Puy April 2016. Despite 5 years secondary school French my linguistic ability is zilch (petit, ptit, petit peu). So I taught myself to say "Je regret, mais Je ne parle pas Francais" as clearly and as quickly as possible. Nearly always I got a response in English. My (lack of) accent would have given me away, but there was a sense I had tried. And because my electronic ear doesn't work well with electronic phones, and because I wasn't certain where I would finish each day, I didn't book ahead. There was only one occasion the owner of a gite did not speak English. I stayed with her two nights. I got out my tablet and using a web browser set up two instances of Google Translate. Into the English->French I would type my question, whatever. She would read. Then we swapped to the French->English tab and she would type her reply. And her dinners were 2-3 hour affairs interlaced with talk about Armagnac were marvelous. And many of the walkers, especially the Swiss that I met, but also the French, spoke English. So I never felt alone, even though I was by myself. Kia kaha (take care, be strong, get going) [/QUOTE]
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