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Originally Posted by
CaptMoto
Have you ever been to France?
1) the majority of them hate anything English
2) they will
not make an effort to speak whatever little English they have but rather expect
you to "parlez francaise".
3) They have dodgy toilets where you have to do your No.2's standing up
4) and...(I'll probably get banned for saying this) they're French!
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Well spending holidays in France at least twice a year for the last 10 years I'd have to disagree with at least some of what you are saying.
1) True, but you deserve that
2) This has changed a lot in recent years. In fact most of the people I've met actually (attempted to) speak English to anyone they suspected of being a foreigner. Even if their English is totally and utterly unintelligible and your French is near-perfect.
3) Can't argue with this one
4) Unfortunately that hasn't changed yet
But to get back on topic: the phrases are really of little use if you don't know how to correctly pronounce them. They'll even have a harder time to understand what you are saying because they can't make out whether you are speaking English or French
And as been said above, if you don't understand any French answers you may be given, what's the point?
Besides, the most important words are nearly the same in French and English anyway. They'll understand well enough when you say police, hospital, garage, doctor, ...