Saturday, June 12, 2010
Zoe the foreign language expert..
We just got back from Ottawa, Ontario, which is really close to French speaking Quebec and I was shocked by how many people were speaking French and how many people preferred to speak it whenever possible. As an indirect result of this, Zoe started speaking in her own language and offering to translate.. I remember a specific instance at the museum of civilization in the Aboriginal section where she said: "Do you know what Cora means?".. "it means run in French"... there we lots of other instances, sometimes things would be an action word, sometimes tied to French or Spanish, sometimes unidentified, sometime translated to meaning "No"...
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