How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by coldtea on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:45PM (#38677980)

>French people always get criticized for not understanding foreigners' broken French. It is not out of malice. It is because it actually is very hard to understand broken French.

Is it that difficult? I can understand broken French just fine as a non native speaker. For French people it looks as if it's impossible, but I don't buy it.

>People weren't correcting you to mock you. They wanted to understand and probably help you.

Judging from how indifferent and unhelpful retail workers, waiters, and such were, even when you speak perfect French or even when speaking in English in case they understand it, I doubt that's the case.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by arkh on Monday December 18, 2023 @06:07AM (#38681143)

> Judging from how indifferent and unhelpful retail workers, waiters, and such were

Did you start your interaction with a "Bonjour" at least? "Customer is king" is not something in France, so you want to be polite with everyone.

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