Ellis
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I'm sure my French accent is far from perfect but I've always found that in most of France (except Paris, perhaps) the locals are quite pleased that you are making the effort to use French at all (although I've no doubt they have a good laugh behind my back at all the faux pas I've unwittingly made)rather than adopting the usual British attitude of shouting in English and waving the arms about. |
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Faerie_Queene3
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No more than Americans are snobby with people who speak English with a foreign accent. |
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Barbibule
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I think this is exactly the opposite. I am french and i love when people try to speak my language, whatever the accent. Accents are cute ;-) |
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Lisa A
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No. They're only snobby to rude people who expect to be catered to everywhere in the world and refuse to learn the local language. |
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kalla
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I visited France in May with a tour group, and our guide stressed that making an attempt at speaking French was the best thing you could do, even if it was just starting with "Bonjour", and then stumbling along as best you could. When I did that, the people I spoke with gladly (and pretty quickly) switched to speaking English to me, no snobbery detected. |
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blake_hanson_2005
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No, We are in love with our language and I do not treat Anglophone accentèd people rudely. I was in America for a couple of weeks and I was not treated rudely either. |
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Matt
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No, not at all. They'll appreciate it of course. |
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Cabal
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No, we appreciate it when people make the effort to speak our language. The accent is nice, too. |
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Scorpy
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Absolutely not, the English or american accent is cute and a bit of funny too, everyone who makes the effort to at least try to speak some French would be welcome here.
When I was in Las Vegas two years ago, an old lady looked at me with a snobby smile and said "oh, you have such a thick accent", but it was the only time, usually Americans and Australians love my thick French accent, they find it romantic (God knows why).
What is interesting is that everyone makes a step towards the other, one is trying to speak, the other to understand, it makes life so interesting. |
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wind from hell!
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ask yourself as you are a Gallo girl..
i think everyone should not be prideful .. |
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just me
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i hate to say it but i do think so |
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DonPedro
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The French are in love with their language. What you interprit as snobby is in fact true distain. |
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MaxPower
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People in france are just snobby to foreigners in general, more so in the cities than rural areas |
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omnisource
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People in France are snobby to EVERYBODY! |
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