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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Parisians hate it when you butcher their language.

    Also they seldom get to practice their English.

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also they seldom get to practice their English.

      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.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Doubtful. It’s too expensive.

        Tourists stay for a few days, so you only get to meet them when they’re asking for directions or feeling talkative in bars. Unless you happen to be working in tourism of course. Which is a fairly big industry in the city.

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• Swemg@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I disagree.

  Source: I’m also french.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some of them are.
    Source: I may be French.

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    • AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The French are having a disagreement again

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  • nichtburningturtle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One of you may be correct.

    Source: I am not french.

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