Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 24th, 2006
How to open a business bank account in France
Simply fill out:
a new account request (3 pages + 2 carbon copies)
an accounts convention form (4 pages + 2 carbon copies)
an appendix to the accounts convention (1 page + 2 carbon copies)
a stocks & investments form (1 page)
a personsal profile form (3 pages)
a customer survey form (1 page)
a transaction profile form (1 page)
an active [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Life in Strasbourg by Bart
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006
Linguaphone
My mother-in-law sent us a Linguaphone CD in the post the other day. Apparently it came free with a copy of the Daily Mail.
Learn French in a week. It promises. No reading, no writing, no effort!
Clearly both of these statements are untrue.
Why? To learn French in a week - you need [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Life in Strasbourg by Bart
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006
Time to whinge
I realise that the only reason I have spoken French this week (beyond “Une baguette s’il vous plait”) has been to complain about something.
Quite why I suddenly become a confident linguist when I need to moan I can’t explain; but whatever the reason, I’m thinking that for the sake of progressing of my French - [...]
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
Pardon?
The internet is a wonderful thing, but the reality is sometimes it makes us lazy. Having since discovered this great site called Worldlingo, which has a cunning auto-translate facility, I’ve been cockily ‘writing’ all sorts of things in French.
Last night this backfired a little though when my landlord responded to a letter I had [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Life in Strasbourg by Bart
Sunday, August 20th, 2006
French chickens smoke cigarettes
In France there doesn’t appear to be such a thing as a ‘big’ chicken.
In the UK, when you visit the supermarket meat section - you might be faced with three or four different sizes of the fowl, from small through to extra large. In France however - ’small’ and ‘not quite so small’ appear [...]
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Friday, August 18th, 2006
Reasons to move to France - 3
Last night we slummed it with a bottle of cheap-cheap wine from the local corner shop.
It was so cheap in fact that it didn’t even warrant a screw-on cap. It just had a little rubber stopper which you simply flipped-off with a well placed thumb.
Granted, it wasn’t the best bottle we’ve ever consumed - [...]
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Thursday, August 17th, 2006
Why Strasbourg?
… is the question we get asked every other day.
“Okay, France yes, but Strasbourg - isn’t that kind of … German?”
Yes, and that is exactly the point.
I’ve never had a problem with Germans personally, except very tall ones, and if they deter my fellow countrymen from coming here - then so much the better.
If I [...]
