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<\/a><\/p>\nChange of village.\u00a0 The post office in the mairie<\/em> is suddenly allowed to dispense the coveted Tarif Livre et Brochure<\/em> (yet another way for France to spread the French language abroad; the rate is not available domestically). My first trip in last Thursday, I sent two sets of books \u2013 one to England and one to Canada.<\/p>\nToday, I went in again, and sent a bunch of books. I took one to show, and maybe display at the Mairie<\/em>. When I showed the secretary the book, she said, \u201cOh, I know! I was curious and so I went on line and had a look at your books!\u201d\u00a0 She then said some complimentary things which I\u2019ll spare you. I was chuffed.<\/p>\nBut here\u2019s the thing: This woman had lived for six years in Italy.\u00a0 She had had a daughter in Italy and lived there till the child was six. They\u2019re both bilingual. So, does being bilingual make you more curious about other languages, other cultures? I feel the answer is \u201cyes\u201d, and am often confronted with what I consider as proof.<\/p>\n
We now share a warm fuzzy connection, as well as Chez Betty & Cat At Home<\/em>. \u00a0I gave her the book for her daughter \u2013 once you\u2019re bilingual, what\u2019s a third or more languages!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For five years now I\u2019ve been bringing my French\/English books to the local post office here in France. OK, I\u2019m no JK Rowling, so we\u2019re not talking thousands, but we are talking a steady stream. \u00a0Not once did someone ask … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nieuws"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"fr","enabled_languages":["en","nl","fr","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"nl":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettyandcat.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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