Entre Les Murs

The Language of Love

Yesterday I started another month at Alliance Francaise. This class is much the same as the last since we have the same teacher and most of the same students. We lost a few people and got three new ones to replace them, for a total of fourteen. Some of us have taken to ocassionally having coffee together after class, which in some cases devolves into English but more often is a low-stress opportunity to practise French.

With the new additions it seems that almost half of the class consists of women who have married Frenchmen to whom they cannot talk in their native language. In some cases, they now can only talk to their partners in English. The women aren't native English speakers either, but it's the one language they both know. So it seems not only is English the common language of business and academia, but romance as well.

At home, a minor disaster: the neighbour's wireless access point that I was using to access the internet has gone offline, so I'm back in the internet café until we get our own internet access installed.

posted 2.12.05