French people really like to speak French and get miffed if you ask them to speak English.
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@smeg : you are probably confusing French and Belgian.
A true French, when confronted with a non-French speaker, will START SPEAK-ING FRECH LOU-DER AND SLO-WER
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@smeg I don't think this is as true as it used to be 25+ years ago. In recent trips to France, we found that just making even a crappy-but-earnest attempt to speak French almost always gets a response of "English is ok"
@BoredomFestival @smeg I noticed that too. Ever since that Rugby thing in 2023, they are much nicer than I've experienced before. And my French is pretty good. Still noticed the difference. 😃
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French people really like to speak French and get miffed if you ask them to speak English. But we learned a hack! If you accidentally respond to them in Dutch, they'll quickly ask you to speak English instead!
@smeg That's because they fear French speaking Dutch people. Watching Chateau Meiland, my ears almost started bleeding from the French with heavy Dutch accent 😭.
I love both my neighbour Dutchmen and Frenchmen, but please don't butcher eachothers language 😆.
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@smeg To be fair, most of my friends are unable to speak English as it's probably the case for the majority of French people. It's not really a case of "like to speak French" but more of a "unable to speak another language" 😅
@to @smeg Yeah that's clearly fairer than the initial post, whose goal seems to be a "funny" generalization of the french people.
Try the life hack on some of my relatives and you'll get frenglish that you won't understand anyway.
There's also the life hack that consists in trying to learn a bit of the language of the country you're in. Even if you suck, it will always be appreciated as a form of respect, in any country. And they'll offer to speak english naturally, if they're able to.
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@smeg I don't think this is as true as it used to be 25+ years ago. In recent trips to France, we found that just making even a crappy-but-earnest attempt to speak French almost always gets a response of "English is ok"
@BoredomFestival @smeg Agree. Been visiting France (Île-de-France, Normandie and Bretagne) regularly since 2010 and still can't speak more than basic level French because people keep switching to English...
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@smeg : you are probably confusing French and Belgian.
A true French, when confronted with a non-French speaker, will START SPEAK-ING FRECH LOU-DER AND SLO-WER
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French people really like to speak French and get miffed if you ask them to speak English. But we learned a hack! If you accidentally respond to them in Dutch, they'll quickly ask you to speak English instead!
@smeg Usually, French people will ask me to speak English when I respond in French
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@smeg : you are probably confusing French and Belgian.
A true French, when confronted with a non-French speaker, will START SPEAK-ING FRECH LOU-DER AND SLO-WER
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French people really like to speak French and get miffed if you ask them to speak English. But we learned a hack! If you accidentally respond to them in Dutch, they'll quickly ask you to speak English instead!
@smeg 16ya the tip Inwas given was to do the proper protocol ("good morning, mr/mrs, escuse me") and the ask if they sopke English, all that in French. It was a single phrase, and worked like ancharm all the time. At most fhey would say "non", but not get angry at you.
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@Gillinger @ploum @smeg
Yeah, but that is Paris. Some of my French acquaintances said that the Parisians are their own brand of arrogant. Usually more arrogant than the rest of the French. And that is saying something.@MeiLin @Gillinger @ploum @smeg as a born and raised Parisian (really rare these days) of 40+ odd years: yes to all of the above.
The French are bad, the Parisians are worse. That's what we do best! 🌈
(seriously though: more and more French people have semi-adequate mastery of English, esp millennials and younger. Still not as good as other EU countries, but it's improving. It used to be embarrassingly bad. Now it's just bad.)
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@smeg Usually, French people will ask me to speak English when I respond in French
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