I have a reservation for my return trip to Paris, scheduled to leave in the late afternoon and arrive around 9:00 pm. I decided that wasn't very convenient - I'd have to hang around Lausanne all day (luggage in tow) and it didn't give me enough time for one last night in Paris. So, I headed down to the train station last night to see if I could change my reservation.
While there, the person at the registration desk didn't speak English. So, I managed to construct what had to be the longest sentence I've ever uttered in French: "J'ai un reservation pour aller a Paris, et je voudrais connais est ce que c'est possible pour moi aller dans le matin." Amazingly, the man behind the counter actually understood perfectly. I was so proud of myself.
The experience would've been *so* much better if he hadn't spent the next ten minutes explaining to me that my reservation, in fact, was already for the morning and that I had misunderstood what was printed on my ticket.
1 comment:
Tres bien, mon ami! Ton francais marche bien! :)
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