Amazing features of the French capital and its people - part 1

WHAT PARIS, really? Padrig A. Carty, a teacher planning to go to Paris? And what we know about the French. Let us enumerate: they wear berets, ride bicycles and wear long loaves under their arms, rarely washed, coarse and unfeeling person - refuse to facilitate the tourists life, pretending to not speak in English. Finally, they are forever pretending that "Oh-I-Parisian"-face. But there are also positive aspects: for example, they are considered the world's best lovers. Still, they love to sit on the outdoor cafe, smoking a cigarette without filter. Five times a day overeat delicious meal, filling it with wine, it is often elegant Bordeaux. French women never get fat and dress they are so elegant that walk along the Champs Elysees will replace the place for you in the front row at the show by Karl Lagerfeld. Champs Elysees - here you can find the most elegant ladies All these stereotypes are far more exaggerated than truthful. This is especially true Parisians dislike for hygiene - this is nonsense. Because of fear of contracting cholera in the early eighteenth century, people preferred to use powdered antiseptic instead of water. This habit soon spread throughout Europe, but somehow he still remembers her only Parisians. Arc de Triomphe - one of the symbols of Paris I earn my living by teaching English in France, and I assure you that many of the French either do not speak in English, or else know it is not better than you - the French, my dear reader. As for those who know English, then they never pretended to not understand this language, on the contrary, they are terribly proud of it, using every chance to boast of knowledge, with the remaining school-earned and then. What they do not like, it's a tourist who believes that everyone around him must speak in English, and if he does not understand, just beginning to speak louder. By the way, this sin and the British, and those for whom English is not native to the same extent. A simple phrase: "Parla Wu Ingles?" ("You speak in English?") Will save you from such errors. It is known that the French dream of ensuring that their language was international, so let the same will not attack them on the sore corn once again. It's amazing how many English expressions included in the French language. Colleagues on Fridays wish each other "Bon weekend, then go to" le parking ", where their car is worth, but it is after the check" le Planning ", to make sure have not forgotten about any" en rally. " Ladies recorded in the salons, so they did there "styling", and before it can be for an hour to drop to "shaping" to be in shape. But the fact that we, in turn, so famously used in speech all the "tete-a-tete", "Rendezvous" and "deja vu, does not mean that the French will understand us without any difficulty. If you try to order "an syut" (single) room, not a Frenchman in the world will not guess what you meant. The waiter too long will wonder why you fashion apple pie, if you ask him to bring the "apple pie a la mode" - the common name of dessert in Kansas. Boast that your house is located in a quiet "cul de sac" (dead end), and you'll be laughed at, thinking that you live in the ass (sorry, but words can not erase songs)! Read more: See also: first, there selilas know, then the lower classes, but today the Jews live a worthy replacement of Montmartre and the Place Pigalle for the first time in France, most beloved of mankind city