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How people react when you try to speak their language (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz

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[–] taxiiiii@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

i once politely asked some middle-aged lady in Paris a question in English. She understood me perfectly fine and proceeded to give me detailed directions in french.

I'm still not sure what that was about.

(I'm very obviously not British or US-American, so that wasn't it.)

[–] troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Maybe she could understand English but wasn’t good at speaking it? English pronunciation is kind of tricky. It doesn’t explain why she thought you would understand French, though.