Vive la différence! France's secret defense against excessive immigration

In today's FT, which I am reading online because it still has not been delivered even once this year due to trouble with the paper carriers, there is an article on page 3 that says that asylum seekers consider France a stop-over and not a destination.

The reason? Here it is:




It's not so much the language that is difficult to master but more the pronunciation.  As Prof. Henry Higgins said in My Fair Lady, "The French don't mind what you say as long as you pronounce it correctly."