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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terranada 3
At MY school, we swarmed the new French student like he was a celebrity!
WhatWhatInTheHA 0
Haha(: even I know what that means
Hald 10
I keep thinking of Johnny english.. "stupid frensh men..."
lifecontroller 2
Ahhh je suis désoler, je ne sais pas pourquoi tout le monde içi son stupid:/
VikingPrincess19_fml 9
85, you DO however have an interesting accent:)
dominictw 3
I doubt it Most anerican think accents rock If u thought they were makeing fun of you, they probally wernt
StuckInReality89 2
You should've come to my school. We've had a Chinese foreign exchange student, a German one, and we've got a new student from the Ukraine. Everyone instantly tries to make friends with anyone new at our school :)
5626Graphite 3
Bonjour Je parle Anglais a Francais (kind of) That stinks but you'll warm up fast. Accents est mignon. Bon weekend.
5t3ff1k4h 44
anglais et francais* No capitalization, and it's 'et' not 'a', but you were close! What you typed is more French than a lot of people here speak though... the fact you know even that much is good.
fairies633 8
aww that's so sa :(
smileyface79 7
Aww I hope your next few days here get better. That was mean of them to make fun of your accent but we're not all like that. Hope you like the US! :)