très bien

EDIT: This article was originally from 2015, my mistake in posting it now.

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    2 months ago

    Haha all good, an interesting story none the less. It’s been over 9 years, think he speaks French yet?

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      2 months ago

      He didn’t need to in order to win the Scrabble and indeed, speaking a foreign language needs a lot more than memorising a dictionary, though that in itself was a massive accomplishment.

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        Depends how much of the dictionary he memorised! I’d think memorising a dictionary covet to cover would be more work than learning to speak a conversational level of French, but I guess he didn’t actually have to memorise the whole dictionary, just enough to have a decent number of words to play in scrabble