Ah ah I got a funny story to tell. It happened today, twice.

First, I took a cab to go to the flight company to pay for my flight tickets to Iguazu. I got in the taxi, and the taxi driver (they usually don’t even speak a word of english here in Argentina) tells me after a few seconds: “Soy Francès” ? Woah, I try ask him in english how he could get it so fast, while I was telling the direction in spanish. No luck, he doesn’t speak english. Ok, I just can tell him I am french, here in Buenos Aires to spend 3 weeks and a few other words in spanish, quite short conversation but this taxi driver was a cool guy!

Then I was still wondering for the rest of the day how he got it, is that my french accent ? Though, Argentina is not really a place where you might expect a great number of french tourists to go, hence this was not that obvious I think.

Alright, then the night I go out for dinner to a quite hype and expensive restaurant to eat some great “Bife de chorizo” (it’s getting my favourite piece of meat here). As usual now, I speak in spanish to order my food, and it seems to work well as I always get what I ask At the end, when it’s time to ask for the bill, the waitress asks me if I pay by cash or by card. And then as I didn’t understood the first word for “cash” in spanish, she asks me if it not said “effective” in french. Woahhhhh ! Wait, how did she also got I was french ??? You can’t see it on my face and I spoke spanish with an “almost” spanish accent (^_^°)

Ok, here is the fact on how she could recognize it: this is not related to the accent at all, she was observing me when I was talking with her, and she said I opened my mouth only a little to pronounce the various words. And this is TYPICALLY french, we do not articulate a lot with our mouth when we speak, and only french people (lazy people lol) seem to speak like this.

Ah ah I learned a good one tonight!