howz yer spanish?

zeetes said

i did not go to paris, but spent a few days in northern france. i was only 11, but i had no difficulty buying sugary sweets from the bakery next store to the inn. though, i had already taken 2 years of french by then. sadly, i don't remember sheet for speaking it.

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i minored in german in college - when i was in holland i thought 'hey, maybe i could try some of my german out (there were enough dutch words that i could figure out, so this made sense to me) i go in a dutch bakery to try to order and they start asking through the shop if anyone spoke german who could help me - when no one could i said "how about english?" and they were all like "well, yeah, of course"
(but i'm pretty sure they were just hassling me bc they hate germans)