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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Actually, when I was in Paris in high school, I had the opposite experience - I kept trying to speak French (which I could speak conventionally after 6 years of study), and many people would refuse to answer me in French, instead answering me in English.

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  • It’s cuz people don’t want to suffer through a broken conversation. So if they speak english better than you speak french, they’ll switch to english.

    Plus Paris is a super international city, it’s not the most “French” place in terms of language.

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