After two weeks here, my French has barely improved but I thought I would share with you key hiking phrases:
Bon Jour- one says this to everyone you meet on the trail, even when you are in Italy. The result is that if two groups pass each other, you hear this phrase repeatedly by most everyone.
On y va- pretty sure this one means let's go, but my group also responds really well to the words "chocolate" and "toilette" when our guides want to get us going.
Merci-means thank you and you use this when two people meet up on a traill too narrow to let people pass without one stepping off the trail. If you did not step off the trail, you say this to the person who did.
De rien- this is the response to "merci". It means "it is nothing" and you use it even when stepping off the trail to let someone pass was a huge deal which endangered your life.
There, now you know everything you need to know to hike in France, Switzerland and Italy.
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