Parlez Vous Anglais ?
Yes, these were the exact three words that all I learnt before coming over to France: Parlez vous Anglais ? which means Do you speak English ? I was told these very three words would prove to be a saviour during the initial days in France. Later I joined a French language school where I was given one month time to master the most sophisticated language in the world. Although my mother knew that I could make it somehow it was my dad who was suspicious and less supportive. It was too much for him to digest the thought that I could learn French in a month and that I could take my engineering lessons entirely in French. Having spent more than five years in this beautiful country, now when I look back I realise that the engineering lessons never really helped me learning French. In the language school, all I could learn within a month was the present tense. I was a fresher and had no worries about the future. I closed my past chapter the moment I took the flight from India to France. ...