Yes.

Cue the deep male voice saying

"Je suis la jeune fille"

French was my father's first language so even though we were an English-first home, I had an excellent study buddy when I started studying French in middle and highschool. I was nearly proficient by age 18 but lost it once life took over. Fast forward 20 years and I wanted to make sure my child had the opportunity to speak with her pépère in his native language.

So I spent 6 months mainlining Learn French and specifically Québec TikTok and fought like hell to rewire those old, decrepit neural pathways. You can get access to an incredible wealth of native content in manageable bites all tagged and categorized for free

Ça marche!

D'accord et merci! J'ai hâte d'explorer la francophonie!

Je peux parler français (encore)

I can speak french (again)

/thread

Maybe it has something to do with the constant existential threat?

https://www.vermonter.com/slipperyskin-bear-bigfoot-or-indian/

A monster from the woods kept massacring farmers' livestock so the Governor led an expedition to kill it. He was so thoroughly terrified by the experience that he ran out of the forest. The monster was never found.

Doe - a deeyuh, a female deeyuh

Ray - my dude who's fuckin fun

So - means wicked feckin', bro

La - what the pigs say is so

Tea - that Pahty in the Bay

And it brings us back to Dough!

:(