There are two things in the French language that repeatedly leave me tongue-tied.
-The question: Tu viens d'ou? (Where are you from?) When they say it quickly, it always throws me off, and my general response is a blank look. No matter how many times I've heard that question (which is quite a few), I cannot register it quick enough without looking pretty dumb.
-The response: Merci. Of all things in a language, I should be able to respond to a simple "thank you." But I can't. I have responses in the back of my head (je vous emprui, pas de probleme, di rien) but I can never act quick enough to say them. In English, if someone thanks me for saying, I usually say "sure" or "yep." So I suppose I could respond with oui here but I just don't. Instead, it comes out more like a gutteral grunt, or even a "meh."
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