Top 10 pickup lines for Europe-bound travelers
Looking for love and heading to Europe? Why not learn corny pickup lines in six languages before hitting the Continent?
Showing the language of love is universal - and sometimes universally cheesy - a Scottish publisher released a list of 10 phrases on Tuesday with their equivalents in Czech, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
Travelers to France can try their luck saying, Excuse-moi, jai perdu mon numero de telephone. Est-ce que je peux emprunter le tien? or Excuse me, I seem to have lost my phone number. Could I borrow yours?
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