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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2024
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The French do the same with all other languages, so fair game.
Germany's 2nd most spoken language is English, by 32% of the population.
Germany's 3rd most spoken language is French, by 9% of the population.
France's 2nd most spoken language is English, by 24% of the population.
France's 3rd most spoken language is Spanish, by 9% of the population.
UK's 2nd most spoken language is French, by 16% of the population.
UK's 3rd most spoken language is German, by 5% of the population.
Source: https://languageknowledge.eu/
While you could say that France is a bit behind the curve in comparison with most other Northern European countries, native English speakers are far worse at learning any other language. I'm not even French, but the circle-jerk English speaking communities have about French people sometimes gets pretty embarrassing.
The point is precisely that they are very capable and do speak the language, but they sometimes refuse to.
And yes, it's also a meme.
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One time when my mom visited France, she asked a shop's clerk for directions. She tried French but kind of gave up and used some English words scattered throughout her sentence for words she didn't know. The clerk acted annoyed and pretended not to understand, so my mom tried to use only her broken French. The clerk responded very quickly in French.
My mom then said, in English, "I'm sorry, I didn't get that, French is such a beautiful language but I'm having a hard time learning it". The clerk then completely 180'ed her attitude, acted all happy and switched to perfect, fluent English, with almost no French accent.
That situation taught me that some French people apparently just want you to suck the metaphorical dick of their culture before they choose to be nice to you lol.
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Depends. They also like to watch you to awkwardly stammer through your hardly recognizable French sentence just to reply in perfect English (or even your mother tongue in border regions).
My favourite is when they ignore you when you speak English (which isn't even your native language either, just the most likely language to be understood by both parties), then when you speak bad French, they reply on even worse English. Bonus points for those that do it to tourists in France and as tourists in other counties (both have happened to me but ofc I can't know if the same person would do both).
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I once turned down a really good job offer because it would have meant having to listen to French people try to speak English.
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Fun fact : if you write french with the last grammar modernization, and with the gender minority inclusivity, you could being correct AND pissed off a lot of french speaker.
"you could be correct and piss off a lot of French speakers". Just fuck off, frog.
Just like Werner Herzog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pY-0JfEdLY
You could only get some French out of me with a gun pointed at my head... It actually happened to me...
Oh, an Anglo Canadian living in Quebec I see
Ive had to drive through quebec so many times. My french isn't the best but i will try and communicate with someone for either food or directions. It blows my mind at how some people can just tell you are english and then they stop talking to you or they get this disgusting look on their face.
Lol. That's really hard to believe. The main complain I've heard was that people will actually switch to english when they can tell you speak english, making it impossible to practice. But hey, we live in the world's most friendly country, where everyone is welcome (except those disgusting natives and french canadian, /s).
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