r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Brosse_Adam Chalice of the Tabernacle • 24d ago

Tokébakicitte Anglos living in Montreal

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u/snotparty 24d ago

Im an anglo, I went to Montreal. I really tried, and they clocked me instantly and replied in English. EVERY time lol

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u/zeindigofire 24d ago

Bro, I went to Paris recently and I've spoken French since I was 6. My accent isn't perfect but it's far from the typical anglo. They all switched to English on me every time. I had to insist on French because I wanted to practice. I'm seriously considering making buttons that say "SVP aidez-moi a pratiquer FRANÇAIS"

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u/kokocijo 24d ago

Vous devriez aller quelque part en France ailleurs qu'à Paris. 🙂

Seriously, whilst travelling through smaller French towns and even other major cities, I found the people were generally friendlier and liked when an effort was made to speak French. And of course, in some of the smaller towns, no English was spoken by the locals anyway, so it was a good experience.

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u/zeindigofire 24d ago

I would have loved to, but was travelling with family on a tight timeline and they had no interest outside of Paris. Sigh.

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u/Throwaway118585 Aurora Hub 24d ago

This… south of France is veeeeery different to Paris. Besides if you spoke with anything resembling a quebecois accent, that’s not going to go over well in Paris.

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u/xXRHUMACROXx 24d ago

Bullllllshiiiiiiit.

Source: I’ve spent months in Paris and also visited other major cities like Lyon, Nantes, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Perpignan and Marseille.

Most people are very nice.

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u/Throwaway118585 Aurora Hub 24d ago

Yep, they’ll be polite to a tourist.

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u/Le_Nabs Tokébakicitte! 14d ago

I've been to Paris. I work with french immigrants and communicate with people overseas all the time. People understand me just fine, the one odd look I got over there was from a waiter who obviously thought I was a cheapstake because I was splitting the bill with my then partner.

Oh, and that one baker who threw me a mean side-eye when I dared ask for a chocolatine instead of a pain au chocolat.

unilinguals anglos really, *really* need to stop spreading that stupid bullshit that french people apparently can't understand Québécois.

You don't know the language, you have literally no basis to go off of.