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Okay! I called my French tutor on Friday evening. It was my first time speaking with her in about a year. I had carefully planned out everything I was going to say to her (in French) before hand. When she said "hello?" I started in "en francais!" She has told me on numerous occasions that my accent is very good. (My vocabulary, not so very good!) So she thought I was some French person and she started rattling away in French and instantaneously, I was hopelessly lost! Well, I could understand about 50% of what she said, but I got so befuddled by this onslaught of rapid French that I lost track of everything I had planned so carefully to say!

Just to be clear, I do read French rather well. I understand about 80% of written French. it's just the conversation stuff that still really throws me. Here's hoping that all those French people I will be meeting and doing business with, will be more than happy to write down every single thing they want to say to me, and then when I've taken about 5 hours to formulate my reply, they will thrill to the authenticity of my accent!

We shall see, gang! onward!