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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes. Gotta love the american stereotype that French people are mean/unwelcoming, because we don’t automatically speak your language, or play along with your game of pretending its completely normal to show up anywhere expecting us to speak your language.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh yeah. The french are mean and unwelcoming for totally different reasons.

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  • PriorityMotif@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I pretended not speak English when I got hassled by all the street scammers.

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  • savedbythezsh@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Actually, when I was in Paris in high school, I had the opposite experience - I kept trying to speak French (which I could speak conventionally after 6 years of study), and many people would refuse to answer me in French, instead answering me in English.

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s cuz people don’t want to suffer through a broken conversation. So if they speak english better than you speak french, they’ll switch to english.

      Plus Paris is a super international city, it’s not the most “French” place in terms of language.

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