Author Topic: Dont Understand French Speaking in English (Read 3270 times)

ggreg · « **Reply #5 on:** December 02, 2013, 05:35:16 AM »

I can understand English spoken with any accent.

It's just a question of exposure to the various accents. The more multi-cultural your society the more exposure you have to different accents. Irish pikey is probably the hardest of all to understand, which Glaswegian a close second.

Listen hard and concentrate and you'll soon adjust your ear to be able to understand the French priest or the call centre operator.

I once had a Bostonian tell me they couldn't understand me when I spoke. Which, frankly, they should be ashamed of given that I speak the Queen's English, albeit slightly faster than normal but with a clear accent.

The worst thing about Indian call centre people for me is not their thick accent but the fact that they have to respond to you in a scripted way and cannot talk freely. It's not their fault but I would like their bosses executed.

ggreg · « **Reply #6 on:** December 02, 2013, 05:43:27 AM »

35 accents in English.

St Gertrude · « **Reply #7 on:** December 02, 2013, 09:22:05 AM »

Bowler, just a question, do you speak French? I do (and fluently) but sometimes have difficulty understanding my relatives from France who speak English at a fast rate of speed. I can understand their French, no problem, but English is a different story. I suspect this problem is more common than people think.

bowler · « **Reply #8 on:** December 02, 2013, 09:22:09 AM »

Quote from: bowler

Everyone I talk to who speaks honestly tells me the same thing, we don't understand much of what Father says, his strong French accent makes it difficult to understand anything that is not repeated a few times in different ways. Whether it be Fr. Rostand, Bp. Fellay, Bp. Tissier and all the French priest that we have had to hear.

No one is honest enough to say this to these priests as they don't want to hurt their feelings? Or just don't want to admit that they do not really understand everything they say?

It appears that the SSPX Menzingen has put French priests in charge of as many priories as they can find men they can trust. The future of the USA is to have foreign priests with worse and worse accents. Pretty soon we will just go to mass to receive the sacraments, and follow our missals, forget about instruction about the faith, even if the instructions were good, few will understand anything in depth.

A just punishment from God?

Signed,
An American with exhausted ears.

Two points above

2) Menzingen is placing French priests in charge of the USA because they don't trust Americans. Obviously, if there are American priests, they should be the first in line to run things, since they know the language. If there is a shortage of American priests, then next in line would be English speaking priests from other countries. The final option would be foreign priests that speak good English, as judged by English speaking priests! None of the above is being done. The priests are selected strictly because they can be trusted by Menzingen. Hence we have priests in the USA that are not qualified to be pastors, teachers, leaders.

bowler · « **Reply #9 on:** December 02, 2013, 09:30:42 AM »

By the way, I speak another romance language better than any SSPX foreign priest speaks English. And I can tell you from extensive experience with that romance foreign language, that in my life, I have only known like 3 people who spoke English and the other language equally with the same successful level of communication.

There is no way I can delivery a theological discussion in my second language as easily, nor anywhere as well, as I can in English. In the same way, these French priests just can't deliver the sermon they could in their own language. It must be frustrating for them. If the SSPX would limit the foreign priests assignments to the few who are masters of the languages, rather than to those people they trust, the faithful would be JUSTLY served, and souls would be converted.

As is, all the faithful are receiving are the mass and the sacraments in these chapels manned by French priests who's only qualification is that they can be trusted by Menzingen.