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Are you interested in a course in Montreux, French Switzerland, near the Lake Geneva?<\/p>\nAre you interested in a course in Montreux, French Switzerland, near the Lake Geneva?<\/p>\n
I have been to French Switzerland a number of times, as I have cousins and my beloved goddaughter there. I think it\u2019s a very nice region, with beautiful landscape. I always envy my cousins\u00a0for living so close to ski resorts. I also love having a walk by Lake Geneva. When I first went there, although it was sunny, the clouds were hiding the mountains, so it looked like the sea. But when I came back, I could see the mountains behind, and it\u2019s such a unique\u00a0view –\u00a0I can\u2019t remember seeing it anywhere else! Wherever you are in Switzerland, you feel very far away from pollution, noise, poverty and crime. It sounds like a clich\u00e9, and I\u2019m not saying that Switzerland is completely free of those things, but that\u2019s the impression I have every time I return there.<\/p>\n
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The first thing that French people joke about is the general obedience of the Swiss. I have a funny anecdote: one day my dad was trying to find somewhere to park and asked the hotel receptionist for assistance. The\u00a0assistant told him that he had to pay and display every other hour. He asked her if the police would go somewhere prohibited, and she answered no. So what he did was park illegally. The receptionist told him that it was very French of him, but the strategy worked, because he didn\u2019t\u00a0get a fine!<\/p>\n
Sometimes I really have trouble believing that the French speaking Swiss used to be French. But they still do speak French. Curiously, we still understand each other very easily. I\u2019ve always heard that the Germans could not understand the German speaking Swiss, but the French and French speaking Swiss understand each other no problem!<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t speak a dialect, but still there are a few differences. The accent is of course different, quite close to the Savoy accent. We often say that the Swiss are slow, probably because they usually speak slowly, which is in fact\u00a0an advantage for a foreigner learning\u00a0a difficult language. I used to make fun of my cousins and people I knew there until they told me that they also found my accent was weird! They also count slightly differently. For example, 70 is \u201cseptante\u201d and not \u201csoixante-dix\u201d like in France. Although I always say \u201csoixante-dix\u201d, being French, I think that their counting is much easier and logical. They also have been strong enough to resist some Anglicisms like \u201cchewing-gum\u201d,\u00a0which they call \u201cchiquelette\u201d.<\/p>\n
If you decide to learn French in Switzerland, you will have\u00a0a\u00a0wonderful\u00a0opportunity to learn French in a superb and safe location. I have never heard\u00a0of anyone being\u00a0disappointed by Switzerland!<\/p>\n
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