On 29-11-2009 17:05, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> Same for France (though they have the added problem of no speaking 
>> English)
> 
> I spent three or four weeks in France, at least two of which were in 
> Paris itself. There was only one person I met who refused to speak 
> english, and since he was behind a post office desk with my unstamped 
> post cards on the table in front of him, I have to assume he was failing 
> to understand me intentionally.

The French that I know have an English accent that is very hard to 
understand. That may be because they tend to be older and the accent of 
the generation of my mother here in the Netherlands was also on the edge 
on comprehensibility (or slightly over).

How is the accent among young French persons nowadays? Anyone knows?

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