Hello Anna! Good vidéo 👍! I think that some people may find us rude because of our culture. For exemple, when we enter in a bar, in a shop, in a post-office, etc ... : we enter someone's home and we owe the same respect as a friend or a family's menber. In some country, people think that because they have money and will pay for a object or service : there is a hierarchy to their advantage! And most of French people think it's rude and disrespectful! It 's my opinion. Bye
Beret is more an older person and countryside thing. Not many peaple wear beret but if you see one it's probably an older person or someone from the coutry side or just wanting to protect from the sun with something a little bit original but you definitly don't see berets very often in the big cities.
I'd be curious to know in which circumstances you met French people that spoke English fluently (at least fluently enough not to feel ridiculous) and refused to. The thing about dorm rooms perhaps arises from lack of rooms. If you have only a few rooms available, you perhaps want to reserve them (unofficially) for people who actually need them, as opposed to, say, children of rich foreign families who can perfectly pay for private housing. Bérets used to be in fashion for males (they don't look like the fancy females ones from Emily in Paris) 60 years ago. The only ones you're currently likely to see are those worn by certain military units.
Thank you for your comment! Well, I guess university professors should be fluent in English or am I wrong? It didn't happen to me that often because I mostly spoke French there but I heard such stories from other people who didn't speak French and waiters wouldn't even try to speak English to them even though it's Paris, a very touristic place
Actually, no, there is little reason why university professors should be fluent in English if they teach in French in a field where the scientific publications and the colloquia are in French, which not so long ago was the case in a large share of disciplines (literature, humanities). They took English classes in highschool and forgot about it because they never used it, the same way that people forget about mathematics. University professors in disciplines where the norm is to publish in English in international journals and to give talks in English to international audiences of course tend to speak English, at least the English they need for their professional needs. The part about learning things in school and then forgetting it also applies to clerical staff, waiters and so on. Add that the traditional way of teaching English emphasizes pointing out errors in pupils' speech, and that if a pupil speaks English too well he or she risks being mocked by other pupils as being pretentious, and thus not only have people forgotten what they learned in school, but they often did not learn much usable English in the first place. Thus I think you are attributing to malice ("they speak English but don't want to because they want to be mean to foreigners") what is more easily explainable by lack of abilities and fear of being ridiculous.
Well, I didn't say that they wanted to be mean to people. In my opinion it's more about history since French used to be an international language and now it's English. And if we take into consideration everything that happened between France and The great Britain for instance - it becomes clear why some French people didn't want to speak and learn English (I noticed that it's more frequent among elderly people and 30-40 years old people). However, when people work in touristic places - they're required to speak English and if they don't do it - it's at least weird. That's why foreigners have this feeling that some french people chose not to speak the language.
Again, I think the reason why elderly people don't speak English is that they are far removed from their school days, have never used English in between, that when they were growing up there was little English material available. These simple reasons have probably more to do with it than geopolitics. Again, it's like wondering why 50 year old people do not recall highschool mathematics when they don't work in scientific fields. People forget what they don't use. "When people work in touristic places they're required to speak English". Assuming of course the restaurant or café managed to hire people who speak foreign languages at the pay that they offer. These days, there is workforce shortage in these areas; work conditions and salaries are so bad they can't find people to hire.@@AnnaSandersonEng
For this story of "no additional work" it is a possibility, however I would say that like everywhere in the world (and I have been around it several times) there are people who love their work and who do it well And the others...
Some manifestations are harshly targeted by the police, others are not. It you follow a NATO topic and believe you fight the system, everything will be ok. If you are a peasant or a handworker, your risks.
The problem is not that they are lazy - there are other countries where people are lazy - but that either they are in denial of their laziness or worse they say " so what ? We are far more creative than the other mere mortals so it's irrelevant". Such a degree of Hubris is repulsive.
Alors là mon gars, je me suis levée à 5h 30 du matin pour aller travailler et j'ai travaillé toute ma vie. Arrêtez de juger tout le monde et je pense que ce sera mieux que vous. Les magasins ferment plus tôt en Grande Bretagne .... Vu et constaté et j'en passe .... Votre outrecuidance me semble sans limites , cher Monsieur.
Hello Anna!
Good vidéo 👍!
I think that some people may find us rude because of our culture.
For exemple, when we enter in a bar, in a shop, in a post-office, etc ... : we enter someone's home and we owe the same respect as a friend or a family's menber. In some country, people think that because they have money and will pay for a object or service : there is a hierarchy to their advantage!
And most of French people think it's rude and disrespectful!
It 's my opinion.
Bye
Thank you for sharing!
kinda hard for 67 millions people to be lazy and be the 7th GDP country.
True 😄
Beret is more an older person and countryside thing. Not many peaple wear beret but if you see one it's probably an older person or someone from the coutry side or just wanting to protect from the sun with something a little bit original but you definitly don't see berets very often in the big cities.
Thanks for the info! 🙏🏼
I'd be curious to know in which circumstances you met French people that spoke English fluently (at least fluently enough not to feel ridiculous) and refused to.
The thing about dorm rooms perhaps arises from lack of rooms. If you have only a few rooms available, you perhaps want to reserve them (unofficially) for people who actually need them, as opposed to, say, children of rich foreign families who can perfectly pay for private housing.
Bérets used to be in fashion for males (they don't look like the fancy females ones from Emily in Paris) 60 years ago. The only ones you're currently likely to see are those worn by certain military units.
Thank you for your comment!
Well, I guess university professors should be fluent in English or am I wrong? It didn't happen to me that often because I mostly spoke French there but I heard such stories from other people who didn't speak French and waiters wouldn't even try to speak English to them even though it's Paris, a very touristic place
Actually, no, there is little reason why university professors should be fluent in English if they teach in French in a field where the scientific publications and the colloquia are in French, which not so long ago was the case in a large share of disciplines (literature, humanities). They took English classes in highschool and forgot about it because they never used it, the same way that people forget about mathematics.
University professors in disciplines where the norm is to publish in English in international journals and to give talks in English to international audiences of course tend to speak English, at least the English they need for their professional needs.
The part about learning things in school and then forgetting it also applies to clerical staff, waiters and so on.
Add that the traditional way of teaching English emphasizes pointing out errors in pupils' speech, and that if a pupil speaks English too well he or she risks being mocked by other pupils as being pretentious, and thus not only have people forgotten what they learned in school, but they often did not learn much usable English in the first place.
Thus I think you are attributing to malice ("they speak English but don't want to because they want to be mean to foreigners") what is more easily explainable by lack of abilities and fear of being ridiculous.
Well, I didn't say that they wanted to be mean to people. In my opinion it's more about history since French used to be an international language and now it's English. And if we take into consideration everything that happened between France and The great Britain for instance - it becomes clear why some French people didn't want to speak and learn English (I noticed that it's more frequent among elderly people and 30-40 years old people).
However, when people work in touristic places - they're required to speak English and if they don't do it - it's at least weird. That's why foreigners have this feeling that some french people chose not to speak the language.
Again, I think the reason why elderly people don't speak English is that they are far removed from their school days, have never used English in between, that when they were growing up there was little English material available. These simple reasons have probably more to do with it than geopolitics.
Again, it's like wondering why 50 year old people do not recall highschool mathematics when they don't work in scientific fields. People forget what they don't use.
"When people work in touristic places they're required to speak English". Assuming of course the restaurant or café managed to hire people who speak foreign languages at the pay that they offer. These days, there is workforce shortage in these areas; work conditions and salaries are so bad they can't find people to hire.@@AnnaSandersonEng
I see. Thanks for sharing your opinion!
For this story of "no additional work" it is a possibility, however I would say that like everywhere in the world (and I have been around it several times) there are people who love their work and who do it well And the others...
Thanks for the video
Some manifestations are harshly targeted by the police, others are not. It you follow a NATO topic and believe you fight the system, everything will be ok. If you are a peasant or a handworker, your risks.
Dress up it's the law!!
The problem is not that they are lazy - there are other countries where people are lazy - but that either they are in denial of their laziness or worse they say " so what ? We are far more creative than the other mere mortals so it's irrelevant". Such a degree of Hubris is repulsive.
Alors là mon gars, je me suis levée à 5h 30 du matin pour aller travailler et j'ai travaillé toute ma vie. Arrêtez de juger tout le monde et je pense que ce sera mieux que vous.
Les magasins ferment plus tôt en Grande Bretagne .... Vu et constaté et j'en passe .... Votre outrecuidance me semble sans limites , cher Monsieur.
@@kidjoe-vm2vv Vu son avatar semi nazz.hi, rien d'étonnant