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Paris 2024: do you speak Olympic?
The biggest tourism bet for France will begin in 250 days with the opening of the Olympic Games. We are preparing for the use of a foreign language by the French to best welcome tourists. – (France 2)
The biggest tourism bet for France will begin in 250 days with the opening of the Olympic Games. We are preparing for the use of a foreign language by the French to best welcome tourists.
During the Olympic Games next summer, will tourists be able to count on you to help them? France is known for handling foreign languages in the imperfect tense, there are less than nine months to prepare. The police officers are already in full training in this training center, intensive one-week courses are being held in preparation for the Olympics with English, German, Italian and even Spanish. Civil servants who will be stationed near an Olympic venue must know the appropriate vocabulary.
Objective: to be understood
All the police officers selected for the internship already have an intermediate level in English, oral expression is at the center of the internship, because being understood will be the most important next summer. For several decades, France has appeared at the bottom of European rankings when it comes to foreign languages. Learning too late, too written, despite progress in recent years, languages will remain one of the most difficult tests of Paris 2024 for the French.