Vicki Archer > Quotes

“Summertime in the french countryside is the smell of ripening fig trees and the taste of wild blackberries.”
― Vicki Archer, My French Life

“The french language is emotive. The verbs are strong and definite. The nouns are masculine or french. I could never understand why the farm would be feminine yet the farmhouse masculine; the pear and apple trees masculine yet the fruit feminine.”
― Vicki Archer, My French Life

“Learning a language happens in stages, and the first breakthrough is a limited understanding. Somehow the words began to make sense; I could not respond, yet I had a vague comprehension of what had been said.”
― Vicki Archer, My French Life