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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HU4L188 0
I happen to love europeans coming to my school. Its so cool to learn about another country
victo890 11
Ya me to !! Last year at my school we had a exchange program with ppl in France so I whent to France .....
ElectricEffect 13
62 - As a French guy living in America, I'd like to point out that no, there are no states in which the entire population speaks French, including Louisiana, where the French is very broken. And even if that's not what you meant, very few people take French in high school and more than half of them don't take the class seriously. I have several friends who try to hold conversations with me in French based off the one or two broken sentences they remember from the class. Hell, I have friends who take it on college and can still only string together a few measly sentences and barely hold a 2 minute conversation with me. In fact the only person I've ever met here who spoke it fluently was a tourist from France. 17 made a valid point. He or she wasn't demeaning the language, they were merely saying the OP shouldn't expect everyone here to know how to speak French, just as you wouldn't expect everyone in France to speak English. That would just be ignorant on both parts.
crystalrain17 14
I'm sorry, Americans suck. I lived in France, and my (predominantly American) accent was rarely made fun of. However, even the way I say a few words "funny", such as the word sorry, gets me a lot of slack from my "fellow" Americans. Vive la France! :)
Slhruman 4
Americans are evil, so don't feel bad. We all hate them.
D11Churchkill 8
Canadians.
theMGM101 0
bon ecoute tu t'en fiches si t'a besoi de quelqu'un pour communiquer en francais t'a qu'a m'envoyer un message ;)
sonyalylia 1
i went through the same thing it gets easier
stompic 2
eh ben, bah FML validée. Sinon bien les U.S.A ?
stupdude3 8
YDI. Only 30% of Canadians can speak french. You shouda known that.
stompic 2
that's right! if french people have "problems" with their language (i'm french, so i know whar i'm talkibg about), that's only because most of them don't speak french very well. French is a more difficult language than English, so be open-minded, understand this french saying "qui se ressemble s'assemble". I mean, he didn't want to oblige anyone to learn English, he just wanted to find someone who shares his language.
WizardOfOzLA 2
first of all it's a "she" secondly, "share" with us in proper English please.