Today, it was my first day at school in the United States. Being from France, my French accent is really strong. After being made fun of all day, I met someone from Montreal. I was so excited and said, "Parlez-vous Français?" And his response? "HUH?!" FML
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Today, I had a presentation in French class. I was so nervous, the first thing I said when I got up there was, "Hola." FML
Today, I got a phone call, and the person on the other line started speaking French. I assumed it was my friend, since we usually speak French with each other, so I said in French, "What do you want, asshole?" It wasn't my friend. It was a representative for the exchange program I'm applying for. FML
Today, I tried to impress a French student by saying “Bonjour!” but instead said “Bordel!” which means “Brothel.” She laughed, and so did every one of the french students around us. My cultural street cred is officially dead. FML
Today, I began taking a French language class. After completing and submitting some homework, I got a response. A response that was completely in French. I can't understand shit. FML
Today, I was talking to my best friend about a cute guy that girls are afraid to even speak to, so I then decided to march right up to him and say hello. When he smiled at me, I stood there with my mouth wide open, but I made non-coherent words. He asked me if I was a foreign exchange student. FML
Today, my friend started his first day of work with me. I thought it'd be fun, but he's been putting on an obnoxious fake French accent and saying "merde" whenever anything goes wrong. Half the women at the office want his dick, and I'm still as single as ever. FML
Today, I saw one of my favorite hockey players in public. I had met him once before, and to my shock, he remembered me. I was pretty excited until he started talking to his friend in French. He didn't seem to realize that I'm fluent in the language. He basically called me "ugly psycho bitch." FML
Today, on my first day of being a trainee teacher in a classroom, I told a boy to stop using that stupid accent or else I'll give him a detention. Turns out he just moved here from Romania. FML
Today, I gave a presentation to a group of international clients. Wanting to impress them, I tried to say "Thank you" in their language, which I thought was Portuguese. Turns out, I was speaking Spanish to a room full of French Canadians. Their confused faces were priceless. FML
Today, while working alone, I decided to just try some random impressions, and so I ended up doing a French accent when a customer walked in. To avoid embarrassment, I had to continue faking the accent as he struck up a long conversation with me. FML
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SunnyUserName123 5
Aww, you'll make friends eventually :D
Freeze_fml 16
Most people will find your accent attractive.
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superbubbles 4
Also only about 30% or less of people living In Canada are actually from Canada. Immigration is good.
historygeek5 13
A friend of mine who happens to be french went through the same thing with bullies. He was doing a visitation thing at my school to see if it was a good fit for him. He did not want to go there anymore at the end of the visitation. People need to learn to be more tolerant.
BloodLotus 3
Canadian French and French are very different. Its kind of like high german and low German. It's understandable that the other guy didn't understand right away, he must have had to register the different french then tried to understand. I'm from Quebec and have a friend from France, it took me quite a while to get used to his accent and actually clearly understand all he was saying.
CheyenneDawn23 1
192- why do you specify immigrants? Its more like asking Americans to be open minded. Immigrants learn English because they know they need it to get by. Never have I met an immigrant who demands to be taught in his or her native language, and I live in California, where Americans are the minority. Your comment was ignorant and stupid. Kudos to OP for learning English, but **** you for assuming other immigrants don't.
profligatesoul 18
I love accents. They're so hot.
angeluv_2014 22
Why would people make fun of you? French people are totally sexy!
LadyEmi 15
I'm sorry to hear you had a bad experience. Not EVERYONE in the US is ignorant and rude. Just an unfortunate majority.
FweakofCydonia 40
I'm from Ontario, and in my highschool, we learned basic-level French in the 9th grade, and afterward it was optional to continue studying French. Prior to 9th grade, many of my friends learned basic level French since the 4th-5th grade, but others first started learning 7th-8th grade. It depends on the Canadian, I guess.
FezzesAreCool 18
J'adore le Francais!
Kriositivity 7
Quebecers speak Quebec not French sorry... Canadians speak french though... at least enough to tell you 'oui' or 'non'