British Senior Citizens, how does a lad with an insurmuntable Cockney bent sound when speaking French?

Tell me about it. My roots were East end, Silvertown, Canning town - my mum was a floor-sweeper at Tate & Lyle's' in Docklands - but we were taught to speak good English, whatever. Aged 11 - confronted with learning and speaking French at a very strict Jesuit College in Tottenham - I was almost crucified for my poor linguistics.

Bebe in French kept coming out as baba - which angered my French master more than somewhat. Happily - by age 16 I scrambled my way through both the written and oral GCE exams - whilst sailing through English with honours, distinctions and stuff. And happily - in my latter years - I fell in love with hard-to-get France - especially the gem La Rochelle - and now lean heavily on my school-boy French - which I'm brushing up as best I can.

; )).

He probably sounds to the French what Dick Van Dyke sounded like to the Cockney's in Mary Poppins, LOL. Although most go on about that and miss the fact that the pearly kings and queens mostly come from further North in the Capital. Gives gallic shrug, Ca va.

Cockney language has almost vanished,the are where it was spoken is now a Muslim area,with the name of the streets in English and Urdu,and they are asking for Shia law. I was born in the area in 1928,my father knew all the slang and to this day I use slang,but only with family or friends,most people do not know it. If you Google Cockney slang you will get a laugh.

Have a Happy Christmas me ol china.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.