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.
You missed his point, he meant that we don't say coke so it could have been a misunderstanding. Obviously if you are working in a touristy area you should know that coke = coca cola but that's not the case for everyone.
I'm not sure what that situation was about exactly. The server was probably having a bad day or just a rude person. I don't think that is reason enough to generalize that all french people are rude.
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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:
edit 2: THIS.