Few things are as unpleasant as committing a minor order faux pas in Italy.
Few things are as unpleasant as committing a minor order faux pas in Italy.
Doing it in Paris so much worse!
Once I hit ‘em with my French and then they immediately switch to English, that pretty much telegraphs that they are dealing with an idiot and they treat me accordingly.
to them French Canadian = American English
Ya I tried to excise the quebecois with a stint in the 4th, but mais c’est comme une tache de vin rouge dans le divan
n'inquiète pas mon ami tu parles autant que tu veux and fuck them h8ers
My French wife and French-speaking children giggle uncontrollably when presented with the Canadian French accent. I really wish I could hear any difference so that I could partake in the mockery.
I’m not a native French speaker but I hear the difference profoundly and could almost not communicate in Montréal
You should always speak only English in Quebec just to annoy people
And to honour the lives of the noble English speakers who died in the great language wars.
jamais! je vais power through en français 😉
If you (for whatever reason) find yourself back up in the holler (Trois Rivières / Laval) it feels like a lifetime of speaking the kings and then being thrown into Glasgow at a slam poetry night. Totally unintelligible