Uncomfortably realistic
So I’m listening to this audio course in French. I get to repeat things a lot, which is to be expected. Thing is, the imaginary interlocutors react exactly how you’d expect someone to react if you ask almost the same question ten times. They grow more and more annoyed. The effect is very subtle, but it accumulates, and you end up feeling like you’ve just been a dick to a total stranger. Way to make me feel bad, M. Pimsleur.
Hello mademoiselle. Madam, sorry. Would you like to have dinner with me at 1? 2? 4? 5? any time this evening? tomorrow evening, then? this week? how about just a drink then, at 11? 12? 7? 8? my place? how about your place? what do you mean I don’t seem to understand French? you made me say these things! but you just told me to say it! you’re a recording! you can’t be mad at me! well fuck you too! you recording. I didn’t want to talk to you in the first place.
Maybe it’s meant to mimic the authentic French social experience? “How to know when to quit: learn to recognize the signs”.
