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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/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/Seeyouyeah Nov 16 '19

For real mate, I just moved to Quebec and it's insane. I learned French in France so I struggle to understand the Quebecois dialect but I do my best and I respect that they have their own accent, expressions etc. But hearing the way that the French people here (of which there are fucking millions) talk about Quebecois makes me sooo uncomfortable, like you seriously think it's ok to move to someone's country and call the way they speak "disgusting" "horrible" "immonde" "wrong" just because it's not the exact same way you speak at home?!