re: France (Paris, Loire Valley, Bordeaux, Lyon, Avignon, Nimes) Trip Review

Updated Bordeaux.

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the people aren't rude like you hear if you even try to speak a little french

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This is what I noticed as well. One of the few sentences I can say in French is "Hello, do you speak English?" and most people were really appreciative that I would even ask. They said that pretty much everyone knows English outside of the really old people, but that it got really annoying that everyone would just come up and start speaking to them in what is a foreign language in their country and just assuming they would understand. Makes sense to me. I'd get annoyed after a while too if random people kept coming up to me and speaking in different languages and just thinking I knew what they were talking about.