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Depends what part of France, really.
Paris: probably yes, but fuck you.
Rest of France: probably yes, but fuck you - though we’ll speak it if your French is positively offensive.
Rest of France: probably yes, but fuck you - though we’ll speak it if your French is positively offensive
correction ➜ rest of france: non.
Quality.
In my experience as a substandard French speaker, the French outside of Paris (particularly in the north) will switch to English if you are positively stuck and not even a beginner at French.
However, if they get an inkling that you can or are leaning to speak la langue, then you better think fast because they will absolutely let you sink and make you dig yourself out of a problem. It’s not outright shithousery, it’s just tough love and I’m absolutely all for it.
I spent two weeks cycling through France, and I met maybe two people that spoke English. Everyone was very nice (contrary to the stereotype) but yeah would have been tough without google translate ngl
Why would they speak English after going through all that effort to try to force the English to speak French
They only did that out of jealousy. Do you know how bad your language has to be to be jealous of English?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_France English (39%)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Germany English (56%)
At least 81% of the German primary and secondary students were learning English as their first foreign language in 2017.
Why do we keep expecting countries to want to learn english? Novody likes Americans, and the British have kind of isolated themselves. I mean Yeah i am writing in english now because thats what i learned for a second language back then, but i dont think kids now a days need it so much.
I’d much prefer if the youth of my country was taught german or french as a second language and english as Maybe a third.
