Yep. SNCF types came to see us about our department since everyone is curious.
Nearly lapsed into Izzard-French when I stumbled over my words at one point...
( Maladicta, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 19:51, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I always find it easier to understand English speaking peoiple speaking French
Not sure if it's because they talk slower, or because they include toomany English-isms.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 19:58, Reply)

I'm really trying to get the Englishisms out of my French at the moment.
Fortunately I work with a lot of native speakers (as you'd expect where I work :) so it goes two ways, really.

The one mistake we won't correct is my colleague saying 'basically' with 'a' as in 'hat' rather than 'hate' because it's absolutely adorable and makes women go weak-kneed.
( Maladicta, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 20:02, Reply)

I like having foregn-isms around. Adds to the diversity.
At my company, we've also got a tribe of Frenchies, a Mafia of Italians, some assorted Russian speakers (not sure how many of them really are Russian), plus goodness knows howmany other people from goodness knows where else.
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 20:10, Reply)

We have 13 French speakers including me, two Dutch speakers,
two Arabic, one Spanish, one Italian, three German and one Portuguese.
( Maladicta, Thu 25 Jun 2009, 20:14, Reply)