{"id":536,"date":"2012-11-22T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T16:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/?p=536"},"modified":"2013-08-19T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T15:26:08","slug":"some-shameless-ways-to-practise-your-new-language-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/blog\/some-shameless-ways-to-practise-your-new-language-part-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Shameless Ways to Practise Your New Language (Part II)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Confuse Restaurant Staff in Italy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the great things about bring in a foreign country is that you don\u2019t really care that much about making a fool of yourself. I was in Rome and was so pleased to have successfully ordered a bottle of something called arancia rossa that I skipped into a take away restaurant singing arancia rossa and looking for something to wash down with it. I ordered a pastry which eventually turned out to be more unpleasant than I had originally expected. The problems began when I asked to take it away. I had no idea how to say this and simply tried to use the Spanish words in an Italian accent. After 5 minutes a light bulb went on about the cashier\u2019s head and she said \u201ctake away?\u201d If you are taking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/italian\/\">Italian lessons London<\/a> Italian restaurants will let you practise being silly before you go away I assume.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funny Faces in Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have been shameless in Paris too. I was near that big arch type thing which some chap ordered to be built before he died. It looked jolly nice and I fancied a picture of it for my photo album. I asked a passing French person in broken French to take my picture and then whipped out my beret and proceeded to make a series of silly faces. I might have offended them and it might even be a criminal offence to seemingly mock the Arc de Triomphe but when you are a foreigner with little sense of dignity they tend to let you off lightly in my experience. If you want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listenandlearn.org\/french\/\">French lessons Edinburgh<\/a> doesn\u2019t have an arch that I can remember but I can recommend putting on a tartan hat and getting your picture taken in front of the castle. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viajarxeuropa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/arcodeltriunfo.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confuse Restaurant Staff in Italy One of the great things about bring in a foreign country is that you don\u2019t really care that much about making a fool of yourself. 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