but in France you have to try to speak French first, get humiliated, and then they tell you to knock it off and just speak your own language
Source: my mom on her high school Europe trip
I had a similar experience a few years back. Even though they tell you to please stop, they would always be very happy and helpful after you attempted to speak French. It’s like you gotta pay the toll or something.
Can confirm re: Italy. I scored a bottle of the family wine when I spoke Italian to the guy renting me his cottage for a week.
French people won’t accept communication in any other language than french actually.
Me and my “French taco” with ham, harissa, frites, kebab, and a hamburger patty can attest to that.
Sorry weird fat dude from Calais, je suis réveillé a quatre heures because my kid couldn’t sleep and my brains are merde de chien.
In ireland, if someone speaks irish you’ll get a mix between pink and black, because barely anyone knows irish properly here.
But, if you speak it in a Gaeltacht (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaeltacht) Its an instant friendship.
Hey, does that include when Québécois speak in France?
I bet it does.
Love you Keebek,
Tabarnak
Nope, Spain falls under “Lets switch to English” especially if you learned Spanish from Latin America…… Stuck up snobs and their Castilian Spanish.
Tholo debeth thethearte hathta que inithian a penthar que a) ethtath burlando de eyyos , b) creen que teneth una thetheo o c) creen que hablath como Pato Lukath.
ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn to you as well.
… So I should stop trying to learn German?
Nein. Learn German so you can understand German memes.
The biggest German meme community is: [email protected]
As someone with 9th grade Canadian core French from 25 years ago, this has not been my experience of the French at all. Not in France, nor in Quebec. What are y’all doing to their language??!?
Those kind of maps are based of stereotypes and memes rather than actual surveys. So always take it with a grain of salt.
We Germans love when foreigner speak German even the pronunciation or grammar isn’t perfect. To be honest most Germans can’t speak perfect German either.
I’ve found it’s really more of a fact that most French people hate tourists and honestly mad respect for that. The only places I’ve seen French people be rude to anyone trying to speak French are places like the riviera and Paris. Most French people are lovely and patient with me butchering their language.
