I pretended not speak English when I got hassled by all the street scammers.
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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks agoYes. 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.
PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
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.
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah. The french are mean and unwelcoming for totally different reasons.