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[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Not sure how it's these days, but I've been in rural France for a week 20 years ago as a teen and if it wasn't for one lady speaking English I'd almost starve there. My english wasn't particularly great, but my french was really bad and I knew it. Every single French I met there refused to acknowledge that and kept on spitting french pretty damn fast and kept it going faster every time I missed the point. Terrible, terrible experience.

[-] Servais@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago

How did you end up there?

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

School exchange trip. One week in French family, one week French kid in our family.

"My" exchange student couldn't make two words in english, literally. In high school. How was that possible IDK. His younger brother was the same.

[-] Servais@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago

Probably because they lived in rural France with unskilled English teachers

[-] kurcatovium@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It was rural, but still like 30 km to Strasbourgh, so it was not end of the world...

[-] Servais@jlai.lu 2 points 2 years ago

Alsace is known to be quite rural, 30km from Strasbourg could be far remote already.

Did they speak Alsacian by any chance? I know older people had it as a first language a few generations ago

[-] Schmuppes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Mince alors!

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