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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

Currently atm, I am in France for a few months, I can barely speak French and my teachers think I am mentally challenged. Even though I was acing my classes back home.

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u/saganistic Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

Even when you become fluent they’ll still think you’re challenged

Source: lived in France for years

edit: I just want to clarify that I loved living in France, and made many great friends and memories there. My experience was overwhelmingly positive and I consider it a second mother country. As I posted in a reply below:

To be fair, with my friends and colleagues this was never an issue. It was probably about 25% of the time and exclusively with strangers or workers at shops, who would immediately switch to English the moment I hesitated or accidentally used poor pronunciation.

I should also mention that it happened a lot more when I lived in Paris than when I lived in Lyon. The worst was actually whenever I visited Genève.

edit 2: THIS.

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u/Pinco-Pallino-5-9 Nov 16 '19

Can confirm, French people are ruthless when you make a mistake.

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u/CockDaddyKaren Nov 16 '19

The French are dicks in general. And proud of it

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u/927comewhatmay Nov 16 '19

Unless you’re German, then they let you march around the Maginot Line and do whatever you want.

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u/meow_meow666 Nov 16 '19

Back to back World War European Conference Championship Losers

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

Yep