{"id":55,"date":"2014-06-18T23:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2014-06-18T23:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T23:19:59","slug":"je_me_souviens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/je_me_souviens\/","title":{"rendered":"Je me souviens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the one week I spent in Germany, I tried to speak as much German as I could. It went quite well, and in the end I was able to hitch-hike asking people directly in German. But once I got to Belgium I noticed something horrible: I forgot how to French!<\/p>\n<p>I had learned French as a child while living in Qu\u00e9bec, Canada.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_86\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Flag_of_Quebec.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-86\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Flag_of_Quebec.svg_-1024x682.png\" alt=\"Flag of Quebec\" width=\"474\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Flag_of_Quebec.svg_-1024x682.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Flag_of_Quebec.svg_-300x200.png 300w, http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Flag_of_Quebec.svg_.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Quebec<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Well, it&#8217;s &#8216;not quite&#8217; French: it&#8217;s Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">It&#8217;s a mixture of Classical French with a bizarre pronunciation, many loan words from English, and a bunch of church-related swear words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They might have a hard time understanding me from time to time, or make fun of me from time to time, but in the end we get along very well.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I think I can only learn so many languages, the same way Pokemons can only learn four moves. I got German all mixed up into French, a language I used to speak fluently.<\/p>\n<p>After a few days in Belgium and France, I think I finally recovered my French. Now the question is: what has become of my German? We&#8217;ll see about that once I reach Germany again =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the one week I spent in Germany, I tried to speak as much German as I could. It went quite well, and in the end I was able to hitch-hike asking people directly in German. But once I got to Belgium I noticed something horrible: I forgot how to French! I had learned French &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/18\/je_me_souviens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Je me souviens<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.unpreparedhiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}