At meal times and in supermarkets you meet and need to know lots of French words, such as baguette, a long bread roll.
You start your meal with an aperitif, a drink supposed to stimulate saliva and the appetite. At a cocktail party you would be offered a canapé , a small but exquisitely prepared and garnished savoury morsel of food.
Perhaps you will meet other expats, or emigrés. People who have emigrated.
By the way, the letter e at the start of an English word often comes from the Greek word exit, going out. I remember sitting on a Greek aeroplane and seeing letters above the door. I wondered what they mean. I identified two of the letters, x and d and s. Suddenly I knew. The word was exodus, same as the word for the book of the old testament. I had found the word for exit!
In or en means coming in. So the immigrant is coming into the country. The emigrant is leaving, going out.
Angela Lansbury, English teacher and tutor, speaker, author.
You start your meal with an aperitif, a drink supposed to stimulate saliva and the appetite. At a cocktail party you would be offered a canapé , a small but exquisitely prepared and garnished savoury morsel of food.
Perhaps you will meet other expats, or emigrés. People who have emigrated.
By the way, the letter e at the start of an English word often comes from the Greek word exit, going out. I remember sitting on a Greek aeroplane and seeing letters above the door. I wondered what they mean. I identified two of the letters, x and d and s. Suddenly I knew. The word was exodus, same as the word for the book of the old testament. I had found the word for exit!
In or en means coming in. So the immigrant is coming into the country. The emigrant is leaving, going out.
Angela Lansbury, English teacher and tutor, speaker, author.
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