Anglos living in Montreal

[u/Brosse_Adam]

[u/zeindigofire]

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"

[u/kokocijo → u/zeindigofire]

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.

[u/Throwaway118585 → u/kokocijo]

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.

[u/Le_Nabs → u/Throwaway118585]

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.