{"id":23875,"date":"2023-11-30T13:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T18:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=23875"},"modified":"2023-12-05T09:13:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T14:13:10","slug":"yes-you-do-speak-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/yes-you-do-speak-french\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, You Do Speak French"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e6e6e6&amp;d=dec23_flipbook&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=34&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">Congratulations! You\u2019ve placed out of Franglish for Beginners.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p3\">By Rhea C\u00f4t\u00e9 Robbins<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">If you speak English, I will tell you that you speak French. If you deny it, I will quote you the Wikipedia statistic that says 45 percent of the words in the English language are of French origin. If you continue to say you are not a bilingual speaker, I will say that 7,000\u201310,000 words in the English language come from French. Do you still think you don\u2019t speak French? As for attitudes against Maine French, let me just say that Maine French is a working, modern language and not a dialect.<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/YesYouDoSpeakFrench.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/YesYouDoSpeakFrench.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/YesYouDoSpeakFrench-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/YesYouDoSpeakFrench-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve got this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1290],"class_list":["post-23875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-december-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23875"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23941,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23875\/revisions\/23941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}