The office I work at is predominantly Francophone. For the most part, its not an issue; I can understand French with a 90% degree of efficacy, speaking is another story but I make do.
I was in French immersion from grade four through grade eight. You know how if you have to memorize something as a kid it stays in your brain forever a lot of the time? Well most of the things engraved in the soft mush of my brain forever are in French. There are a lot of songs, my personal favorites being, Qu-est qu'il ya Dans La Forest and another one about going to check out animals, the chorus loosely translating to, "you can call me crazy, you can call me silly, but I swear I just went to see the animals!"
I don't know who writes these gems. Probably the same guy who writes Busta Rhymes's raps. Maybe it's Mr. Rhymes himself!
Anyway, when people speak to me in French at work, and I fail to understand whats going on, after a while I just want to launch into a verse of Qu-est qu'il ya Dans La Forest, which is basically just a repetitive list of the stuff that you find in a forest.
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