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How people react when you try to speak their language (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] krawutzikaputzi@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

We've just been on the french north coast last week (from Austria) and I was also positively surprised. Everybody was really nice and spoke English very well. I'm still traumatized by 4 years of french in school because whenever I said something I was scolded that the pronunciation is wrong. Unfortunately that made me hate the french language, but french people made me more confident now and maybe I can set my peace with french now.

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah if you go to the north around Normandy, French people there love English speakers and are super friendly if you try to speak French. Like OP mentioned, it's Parisians that are assholes.

[–] Leax@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Glad to hear!