I was pointing at the wall saying, ‘I need a. All he wanted to do was put up some shelves, but he didn’t know the French words for drill, tools or hole. They were together for four months before Will had to resort to charades. “It was a good way to get together – because the music is too loud to hear anyway, so you use other ways to flirt, like body language, buying her a drink, or making sure you’re going out for a cigarette at the same time.”
Will and Marianne met at the student bar. I had some formulaic phrases, such as ‘My name is William’ and ‘Where is the cathedral?’” When he arrived in France on his Erasmus year, he had only a GSCE in French and a few catch-up lessons: “My level of French was not great. Will Henderson dated Marianne from Montpellier for three years. Be prepared to get pretty creative with charades.