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Re:The Benefits of Failing at French by kalleboo on Saturday July 19, 2014 @09:59AM (#8057483)
> I found being laughed at was a huge barrier to learning French when I lived in Montreal

Wow, can anyone explain the reasoning behind making fun of a language learner? I'm in Japan right now, and the reaction to me speaking my feeble attempt at Japanese here is more "OMG you can speak Japanese? That's amazing!"

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Re:The Benefits of Failing at French by doorhammer on Saturday July 19, 2014 @01:36PM (#8058127)
I'm sure this isn't the case everywhere, but I got the same reactions in thailand; any time I tried to say anything in really awful thai, everyone was super appreciative and friendly about it.
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Re:The Benefits of Failing at French by vehementi on Saturday July 19, 2014 @03:05PM (#8058374)
It's a cultural thing. The French speaker stereotype is an asshole about that. There's a lot of racism in Vancouver (at least) against immigrant Chinese who are ESL, but an identical person speaking broken English with a Russian or Italian accent would be perceived as sexy.
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