How to say for us, english was the language to fall back on when we couldn't make ourselves understood in french. in Japanese
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フランスフランス(furansu) (ateji) france語語(go) (io) talk/recital/narration/topicがが(ga) (prt) indicates sentence subject/indicates possessive/but/however/still/and通じ通じ(tsuuji) (n) understanding/bowel movement/evacuationなかったなかった(nakatta) (v) didn't have場合場合(baai) (n-adv,n) case/situationにに(ni) (prt) indicates such things as location of person or thing, location of short-term action, etc.、、(、) Japanese comma私たち私たち(watashitachi) (pn,adj-no) we/usがが(ga) (prt) indicates sentence subject/indicates possessive/but/however/still/and最後最後(saigo) last / end / finalにに(ni) (prt) indicates such things as location of person or thing, location of short-term action, etc.頼り頼り(tayori) (n) reliance/dependenceにするにする(nisuru) (exp,vs-i,vt) to place, or raise, person a to a post or status b/to transform a to b/to make a into b/to exchange a for b/to make use of a for b/to view a as b/to handle a as if it were b/to feel a about b/to decide言語言語(gengo) (ok) languageはは(ha) (int) indicating a subject/yes/indeed/well/ha!/what?/huh?/sigh英語英語(eigo) (n,adj-no) englishだっただった(datta) was。。(。) Japanese period "."
