When it comes to talking to talking to foreigners

@yukihaki can confirm?

Really don't wanna be a butt about this, but I traveled to France recently (Paris, Lyon, Nice) and found that most people I spoke to were incredibly accommodating and quick to switch to English. The key it to begin by speaking French rather than to jump right in to asking for English. Now, I speak absolutely no French and had only memorized around 40 key phrases, so people were quick to figure out that I was hopeless. No one seemed annoyed to have to switch to English with me once they realised how limited my French was, but I did notice that people often seemed annoyed if a tourist approached them and went right into asking if they spoke English. I did find that the majority of people I spoke to there knew more English than I did French, but in the cases where they did not we were still able to communicate tolerably well through gesture. If you speak Spanish, you could also try to use this as a mutual language as I found that many French were also at least conversational in Spanish.

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