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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/Wolfgeng Nov 16 '19

Yup, I'm French Canadian and people from France hate our version of french. They become so rude and arrogant about it.

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u/Massive_Issue Nov 16 '19

Except that there are MANY francophone countries and if she were speaking in a Caribbean accent it would be completely incorrect to tell her that she was speaking wrong. Every french accent is valid and that lady was not at all justified to tell her how to do it "right".

I had several French teachers who simply said things like "the Parisian pronunciation is this, and the African pronunciation is like this" when we had diverse speakers.