> English is just badly pronounced French At least it got me (barely) passing marks in French lessons at my German school: to write French, I would set up the

> English is just badly pronounced French At least it got me (barely) passing marks in French lessons at my German school: to write French, I would set up the sentence in my head in English, shake it around violently until all the words not sufficiently French-sounding where replaced with roughly synonymous words that did and then improvised accents and conjugation. Unfortunately that cheat is terribly useless in real life.