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Bilingual Interview - The formidable, Amanda Grey

Bilingual Interview - The formidable, Amanda Grey

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 www.amandagrey.com www.korutraduction.fr https://www.decitre.fr/auteur/13875242/Ellen+Bales TRANSCRIPT: Hi, I'm Hannah, and welcome back to Don't Say It, a podcast designed to help you work on the finer detail of the English language. I am lucky to be joined with business owner and Morbihan's very own English training module, Amanda Gray. Hi, Amanda. Hi, Anna. Let's start with a question. You are originally from Ireland, if I'm not mistaken? Yes, I am indeed. I'm from Dublin. I'd love to hear your favorite Irish English word. My favorite one is probably at the moment, it's shenanigans. That's a good one of shenanigans everywhere. What would be the equivalent of shenanigans? I know something with you everywhere. I love the word collaborate. It's like smithereen. I love smithereens. 1s Do you know when these words come from Ireland? I can kind of feel it. I couldn't give you a sort of a technical reason. 1s When you visit home at Christmas, do you revert to typically Irish words with your family? Not necessarily. I mean, the Irish are masters of the English language, definitely. We kind of stretch it and modify it to suit our purpose. But that's what language is for and that's why all the best literature writers are Irish. George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde and all those people. So the Irish also have a pretty bad habit, which is swearing. 2s I know. It's a bit like the kiwis, actually. Oh, we love it. It feels so good and it's so funny. It's a natural part of our language. Don't at Scotland. Alright, let's go back to the beginning. When did you arrive in France? I arrived in France in 1989 after my degree in applied languages. Why did you come to France? I've always loved France. When I was five, in primary school, I had a French French teacher. Called Madame Mortal and she taught of French. My love of French goes back to that time, but also in fact, I realized many, many years later my love of teaching goes back to her because she didn't teach us. She showed us how to communicate with French. It goes way back to that. And I always said I could live in France. It's amazing and it is crazy. I was talking with the friends, how much one teacher, even though it's a shake, can change your mind. Did you speak French fluently before you arrived? Yeah, I think. I don't remember a time, actually, when I didn't speak French. So even though I'm not quite lingual in the sort of perfectly technical sense of the word, because I only learn French from the age of five, but I did speak French better than my French teacher in school, for example, much to her annoyance. The only difficulty I have in French is still the masculine and feminine, which I realize is installed before the age of two, almost. I used to test my children when they were small by giving them obscure French words when they were three. And they always knew 1s feminine. It happens, like sort of neonatal. There must be a gene for it. So the neurons are forming for six months with the name of structure of their mother. Even if you learn French five, you know, it's great for the accents, for example. And did you learn just from lessons or did you. No, I learned from I guess I had the part in school, but then my parents came to France every year in the summer, they would pack me, my sister and my brother, and the tent and the kitchen sink into a car and come on the ferry to France, and we would camp up and down the coast of Britain and Normandy for the whole summer. And, you know, when you're 6,7,10, you just play on the beach with French kids and I guess I learned to communicate in French from a very early age. And the grammar came, I guess, from school later on, and it just made sense. How long before you became fluent in French? So you were comfortable in business? That was probably a good ten years. I think being comfortable in business was less about language and more about experience. Yeah, I set up my business in 99. It was exactly ten years after I arrived. It's interesti

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