With the right intonation yes, it actually works wonders
TWO BEERS PLEASE
As usual, we are the only ones making an effort…
I’ll just start speaking my near un-translatable local dialect (don’t remember wich italian journalist was, but he did this in the Soviet Union, while speaking at the phone, to avoid being understood by “listeners”)
French and English are more alike than they dare to admit
Je ne sais pas parler sapês (français).🐸
I can read and write in english but I’ll always talk in french. Well except for slurs, I like slurs.
True story.
POV: First time in France, visiting Paris and dating a French girl for some time.
I went to the supermarket first time alone and decided to put my 3 years of French study, from high school in practice, at the cashier. The words came out slowly and with a bad accent, but I was sure of what I was saying was correct. The cashier starts to *goble, goble, goble* ” what are you saying?” , “You speak very bad”, “I don’t understand you”, on a clear attempt to humiliate me in front of everyone in the line, speaking very fast and being arrogant regarding my honest attempt of speaking the native language with modest accent. I realise people around us are getting frustrated for the delay and for the whole situation, so I proceed to repeat everything again in perfect Spanish, Portuguese and English. She could not understand anything because she could only understand French. Everyone was now laughing at her. On a power move I call the manager, and I return to speak in French, this time successfully being understood. The manager was arabic.
Moral of the story: the arrogance shown by the french worker attempting to humiliate a foreigner trying to communicate in her native language got shut down very quickly when she realised that she was the dumb one. 😂
Why tf is this guy working in France if he doesn’t speak French
Good thing catalan at least helps a little to understand baguette
I’m gonna learn French just so I can refuse to speak it and understand their angry rants
I just speak French to them, the affront of hearing me mangle their language triggers them to spontaneously learn English on the spot.
if you don’t speak french, how do you *know* it’s french, huh? so you do speak french, you’re just a troudbal
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With the right intonation yes, it actually works wonders
TWO BEERS PLEASE
As usual, we are the only ones making an effort…
I’ll just start speaking my near un-translatable local dialect (don’t remember wich italian journalist was, but he did this in the Soviet Union, while speaking at the phone, to avoid being understood by “listeners”)
French and English are more alike than they dare to admit
Je ne sais pas parler sapês (français).🐸
I can read and write in english but I’ll always talk in french. Well except for slurs, I like slurs.
True story.
POV: First time in France, visiting Paris and dating a French girl for some time.
I went to the supermarket first time alone and decided to put my 3 years of French study, from high school in practice, at the cashier. The words came out slowly and with a bad accent, but I was sure of what I was saying was correct. The cashier starts to *goble, goble, goble* ” what are you saying?” , “You speak very bad”, “I don’t understand you”, on a clear attempt to humiliate me in front of everyone in the line, speaking very fast and being arrogant regarding my honest attempt of speaking the native language with modest accent. I realise people around us are getting frustrated for the delay and for the whole situation, so I proceed to repeat everything again in perfect Spanish, Portuguese and English. She could not understand anything because she could only understand French. Everyone was now laughing at her. On a power move I call the manager, and I return to speak in French, this time successfully being understood. The manager was arabic.
Moral of the story: the arrogance shown by the french worker attempting to humiliate a foreigner trying to communicate in her native language got shut down very quickly when she realised that she was the dumb one. 😂
Why tf is this guy working in France if he doesn’t speak French
Good thing catalan at least helps a little to understand baguette
I’m gonna learn French just so I can refuse to speak it and understand their angry rants
I just speak French to them, the affront of hearing me mangle their language triggers them to spontaneously learn English on the spot.
if you don’t speak french, how do you *know* it’s french, huh? so you do speak french, you’re just a troudbal