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Le 12/11/2024 à 19:04, Silvano a écrit :
> 
> AUE readers are free to request a translation and those who can do it
> are free to improve my French. Hey, do you really expect perfect French
> from an Italian who has been living and translating in Germany for forty
> years and writes here acceptable English?
> 
> OK, I did study French at school, but I did it only in the first year of
> the after-school care club, when I was 6 years old. In the second year
> they switched to English. The rest is self-study with the obvious
> advantage of speaking another Romance language as my mother tongue. For
> example, is the correct article "le" or "la"? I get it right without any
> effort over 90% of the time. Native English speakers can tell us about
> their experience.

The key to French and English is to remember what d'Artagnan said (in 
'Vingt ans après) : « ... l'anglais n'est que du français mal 
prononcé... ». English is only badly pronounced French.