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The Sunday Times in 1994 had launched a competition to see who could write the best story with the most French words.This is a delightful anecdote! This text is a classic example of British linguistic humor. It ironically highlights that while France sought to "purify" French of Anglicisms (via the Toubon Law in 1994), English, for its part, would find itself quite unprepared if it were to give back to Molière what belongs to him. Here is a short text taken from this competition "He had a "rendez-vous" with a "blonde" "divorcee" in a "cul-de-sac". He sat on a "banquette" in a "cafe" sipping an "aperitif". She arrived looking "chic" in a"beige" "ensemble". There was a "soupcon" of "romanc"e in the "air", but she had a "blasé" "attitude", a "certain" "je ne sais quoi" that "suggested" a f"aux pas "was "mminent." (Miles Kington ) It's quite fascinating to see that if you removed all French from English, only words for very basic things (eat, sleep, land) would remain, while the entire culture and administration would disappear! Why is it "brillian"t? The strength of this text lies in three points that the Sunday Times wanted to highlight: 1. "Omnipresence": It is "estimated" that nearly 30% to 45% of English words are of French or Latin "origin" via French. 2." Prestige": Without these words, English loses its entire vocabulary related to cuisine, fashion, diplomacy, and refined social interactions. 3. The absurdity of protectionism: The newspaper wanted to show that languages ​​enrich each other and that trying to "clean them up" is a losing battle (and somewhat ridiculous). "So, as you can see, @Shane Peterson @Mila Zinoveva @Gulistan Asan @Andrzej Zieliński @Serge Gray even when I speak English... I’m still technically speaking French. À bientôt !"🍷✨

@Ute Delsing @Ralph Essers @George Gubaidulin @Cao QiaoLan @Linus Z @Natalie Cosmopolitan @Eve Eve @Fulya Acun @Evelyne Vincent @Jenny Jenny @公用 学员账号 @Shirley Lee @Sara Li @Mina Min @Donesh Pawara @Ryo Takayama @Sherry Zhan @Massouda Mhamdi @Gee Nat @Pedro Lustosa @Xinxin Zhang @Maximilian Miasnikov @Soooda Feng @Jackie Li @Frank Wang @Pika Bu @Rory Yuan @Steven Jiang WE DID IT— thank you all! Huge thanks to everyone who joined today’s class! We went through all the pronunciation drills and we've done all 4 parts of dictation! AREN’T WE SOMETHING? 😁 The energy was awesome, and your participation really brings these sessions to life. It makes the whole experience more fun and meaningful for me and today was no exception. Special thanks to our Mentor @Gulistan Asan for all the support and assistance — truly appreciated.🙏 And thank you all for showing up and being part of it. Looking forward to practicing together again very soon! 🙌

Hey guys! Quick announcement 🙂 This Sunday, we’ll be doing Dictation Sunday again ✍️🎧 The class is already on the CALENDAR — just wanted to give you a heads-up and remind everyone to join. The idea is to train our short-term memory. I’ll pick one of our ‘old’ DDM VIP or PIRF VIP assignments and read some paragraphs sentence by sentence. You’re supposed to write down what you hear and post your answers in the chatroom. Then we compare your answers with the original script. After that, one of you could read another paragraph, and the rest of us, including me, will try to catch it 👀. Since we are all from different countries and have different accents, this will also help improve our listening comprehension 🌎. Plus, by reading the assignment, we can focus on our pronunciation and learn some vocabulary so we can discuss it afterwards 💬. LISTEN TO IT 🎧 • WRITE IT ✏️ • MASTER IT 🚀