My French phonetics teacher is one of those very hard to read French women, which is saying quite a lot since I tend to find the French hard to read as it is. But she sits in front of me in class giving me sentences to say and repeat until I manage to turn the linking consonates and vowels into something resembling a sentence.
But today she actually smiled at me after asking the entire class to, one by one, tell her "I don't know" in our best effort at using une langue soutenue - very formal French. The answers ranged from "je ne sais pas" to "j'sais pas" but when she finally got to me I just told her, "Je ne sais." She looked at me for a moment before saying that she was surprised to hear me say that but that it was both chic and impressive.
Coming from her I take that as quite a high compliment. And seeing how I spend most of my days not knowing things, being able to say it in as chic of a way as possible seems to me the next best thing.
But today she actually smiled at me after asking the entire class to, one by one, tell her "I don't know" in our best effort at using une langue soutenue - very formal French. The answers ranged from "je ne sais pas" to "j'sais pas" but when she finally got to me I just told her, "Je ne sais." She looked at me for a moment before saying that she was surprised to hear me say that but that it was both chic and impressive.
Coming from her I take that as quite a high compliment. And seeing how I spend most of my days not knowing things, being able to say it in as chic of a way as possible seems to me the next best thing.
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