Hi, this is Billie Jean King. This is Mary and Bartorri.

I'm Matt Svillander. This is Mary Carillo.

I'm San Roenca. I'm Lainey Stewart. This is Yannick Noah.

Bonjour, ici Bertrand Saisve from Montreal.

And you are listening to the tennis podcast.

I don't want to do any disrespect to any of our other intros,

but I kind of feel that Bertrand is the coolest yet with that better French, Catherine.

I know you and Matt are both French speakers, I'm not, but I just think that is so cool.

Yes, K-Berk was French, no less, which is a beautiful form of the language, but one I find

very challenging. I have a few times been caught out on trips to Montreal, which is one of my very

favourite cities by sort of being very gung-ho about being a French speaker.

I'm going to nail this trip and fit in seamlessly, bust out my French at the first possible

opportunity. They understand me, which is lovely, and then they speak back to me,

and my face goes completely blank and drains of all colour.

I realise my mouth has written checks that my brain can't cash, because K-Berk was French's

and it's quite different. For example, says, says, says, is Bertrand's surname there,

says, they're thinking in mainland France, that would be CV, you wouldn't pronounce the S.

It's one of life's lowest moments, then, isn't it? When you're thinking, you can speak a language,

and you're proven very much wrong about that.

Yes.

Amazing how I feel. I can't see you.

Truly humiliating.

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