Here I am !
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Originally Posted by onelifecrisis
The Parisians seem to hate it when people speak English, but if you try to speak French they'll warm to you even if you screw it up. Or maybe they just like to see Englishmen looking like idiots.  Any Parisians reading this? |
Honestly ?
I can't say whether that's true or not. Went to Paris only half a dozen times in my life, when some members of my family were living there... The only thing I can say for sure about parisian people, is that they got their own way of life. For them, there's
Paris, and the rest of the world.
I'm not going to say they're racist against us people living in the provinces, but one thing is sure, some (most ?) of them are full of themselves and do not appreciate us at all.
And we provincial people, give as good as we get : we do not like them either.
DivingDuck told me he was quite surprised when he came in France and realised very few people were speaking english fluently.
In my opinion, the reason why you had to try to speak french is that there's simply still not as much english speakers as needed among the population to give informations to tourists.
