You lived in a region in Fontaine that primarily spoke english, so that was your first and only language that you knew.

However, you’d recently moved to the Court of Fontaine for work – where many people speak french on a day-to-day basis.

You met Monsieur Neuvillette through your work as a lawyer, and he offered to teach you some french.

“Non non, mon ami, a dog is a masculine word, so you’d have to use ‘le’ before it.”