{"id":1814,"date":"2013-05-24T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T22:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2013-05-24T22:11:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T22:11:46","slug":"finding-foreign-words-in-our-everyday-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/finding-foreign-words-in-our-everyday-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Foreign Words in our Everyday Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Eurostar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1815\" alt=\"Eurostar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Eurostar.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Can\u00b4t speak a foreign language? Think it\u00b4s too hard to learn? Nonsense! You may not realise it, but the English language has absorbed so many words and phrases from other languages over the years that they have become commonplace and used as everyday terms for us. Take the French language, for example.<\/p>\n<p>How many times have you asked to see the <i>\u00e0<\/i><i> la carte menu<\/i> in a restaurant? And chosen <i>cr\u00e8me br\u00fbl\u00e9e<\/i>, <i>mousse<\/i> or a <i>flamb\u00e9<\/i> for <i>dessert<\/i>? Do you enjoy watching the <i>ballet<\/i> or is the <i>Grand Prix<\/i> more your kind of thing? Are you an <i>entrepreneur<\/i>? Why don\u00b4t you buy your <i>fianc\u00e9e<\/i> a lovely <i>bouquet<\/i> of flowers? Is your home in a <i>cul-de-sac<\/i> and does your bedroom have an <i>en suite<\/i> bathroom?<\/p>\n<p>We have become so used to these words in our everyday language that we often don\u00b4t realise that they have been taken from another one. So whilst you might think that you\u00b4re unable to learn another language, think again, because you\u00b4re already speaking one more than you realise!<\/p>\n<p>With the right style of teaching, at a level to suit you, you can learn to speak French fluently in no time. The best way to pick up the language easily is for a native French speaker to teach you. So give it a go! Arrange to meet your tutor in the local <i>caf\u00e9<\/i> and pick up your friends <i>en route<\/i> to your lessons. You\u00b4ll be surprised at just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/language\/french.html\"><b>how easy it is to learn French in Leeds<\/b><\/a><b>!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can\u00b4t speak a foreign language? Think it\u00b4s too hard to learn? Nonsense! You may not realise it, but the English language has absorbed so many words and phrases from other languages over the years that they have become commonplace and used as everyday terms for us. Take the French language, for example. How many times [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,44],"tags":[813,4,44],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-words","tag-english-language","tag-french","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1817,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}