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AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Probably a good idea just to get more familiar with the language. Even if you’re only speaking to your own family.
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AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Probably a good idea just to get more familiar with the language. Even if you’re only speaking to your own family.
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Very good idea. French people are pretty bad at English.
Source: am french
Swemg@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I disagree.
Source: I’m also french.
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 months ago
One of you may be correct.
Source: I am not french.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Some of them are.
Source: I may be French.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 2 months ago
The French are having a disagreement again
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sxan@midwest.social 2 months ago
Not my experience.
There’s a definite Parisian superiority attitude I find extremely annoying, but by and large the issue I found isn’t that they don’t speak English, but that they refuse to speak French.
It may be that my French is so bad that it’s painful, but I’d try. And usually I’d get a pause, a look, and then they’d switch to English.
The countryside is different. English isn’t as common as it is in Germany. But, if you speak passable German, they’ll at least speak German with you.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Parisians hate it when you butcher their language.
Also they seldom get to practice their English.
sxan@midwest.social 2 months ago
Even with all of the tourism? From the US and UK? I know French is a common second language in the UK, but surely Paris gets its fair share of pensioners speaking only English.