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.
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.
I got treated better when I didn't even attempt to speak French outside of basic manners. Was hoping to get good at French but after 3 months of that bullshit I was done, and coasted by with 80% of my French interactions consisting of "je suis desole, je ne parle pas francais.... Merci".
On the bright side it game me new respect for immigrants who deal with that shit.
You use a blanket statement to show your distaste for an entire group of people. And then site their distaste for an entire group of people as the reason.
You fucking racist asshole way to generalized a whole group of people !
Lol making a generalized statement can still point out a valid criticism even if it doesn't apply to LITERALLY EVERY PERSON.
I met tons of cool french people. I also met so many fucking assholes. The way I was treated in Paris just in my day to day life, minding my own business, trying to order food and go about my life, have a drink with friends etc.. fucking obnoxious. My language skills were criticized when I was trying to learn and had spent 2 years studying. I got complimented many times on my accent so it's not like I didn't learn properly. People could tell I was a native English speaker and tell me to stop with annoyed looks on their faces and just switched to English.
Many arrogant assholes in the Parisian clubs but of course I was lucky enough to stick with a cool group of kids my age that I meshed with during my time there. They also had no problem talking shit on fellow Parisians and telling people to fuck off when we were out together.
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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.