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Yeah, this is my experience too. You should always attempt to use the language of where you are except in France. They would rather you spoke English than butch
by celticninja 8y ago
Yeah, this is my experience too. You should always attempt to use the language of where you are except in France. They would rather you spoke English than butchered their language. I usually keep it to please and thank you in french as a result. Although I did once use my high school french to ask where the swimming pool was once and had a bit of trouble deciphering the response I got (in french). So swimming pools and libraries and please and thank you :)
- Koshkin 8y agoI think problem is, English accent is probably the worst. This is because pronunciation-wise there hardly are other two languages as different as English and French. (The French return the favor, obviously - their accent sounds just as terrible.)
- celticninja 8y agoAccent is such a non issue, in the UK the accent can be very different even 30 miles from one another, so let alone someone speaking it with a French, German or Spanish accent. It's still English and 99% of the time you can understand it. I assume the same is true of other languages too.
- Koshkin 8y ago> Accent is such a non issue But for the French it apparently is (and understandably so).
- celticninja 8y agoI meant that you can still understand the speaker, and if so it is courteous to answer. Refusing to understand because you don't like the accent is hardly courteous.
- kenbellows 8y agoWhich is ironic, given that English developed as basically French + German (or some old versions of those languages).