• spicy pancake@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    but in France you have to try to speak French first, get humiliated, and then they tell you to knock it off and just speak your own language

    Source: my mom on her high school Europe trip

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      3 days ago

      I had a similar experience a few years back. Even though they tell you to please stop, they would always be very happy and helpful after you attempted to speak French. It’s like you gotta pay the toll or something.