As a German, I have to agree - but it's not always a positive thing. We basically give up our own language instead of "honour" it in some way (that sounds strange, but I hope it gets more understandable when I explain). For an example, let's take Instagram accounts of museums in different countries, which many of them I follow: French museums write about the picture they posted in French, then in English. Same in Italy. Same in Czechoslovakia. Same in Spain. Many German speaking countries simply post in English, and only in English. Why though? Another example: our language gets more and more anglicized, suddenly it's much more "in" to say the English word instead of the German. That's definitely not a positive thing. But I also want to make clear that I in no way would refuse to help someone who visits Germany for a few days and can only speak English. Of course I would speak English with this person. I just wanted to address that the French attitude to their own language is not so bad at all.
It’s totally true what you are saying and I agree. On one hand I understand this attitude but on the other hand I think it’s sometimes exaggerated where people expect you to speak French even if you’re just visiting and needing help.
@@itsimplyeve my experience was 100 this. I feel like French people were super mean and im British. Been once as a teen and the other time as an adult. Never planning to go back!
The floor thing....it's like that in the UK too ground floor, then first, second, etc....it's always the Americans who must do everything differently 🙄(joking)
I laughed when you mentioned her outfits, it's so true! Floral prints? That kind of dresses?People in Paris don't dress like that. Maybe that was the point and we missed it. She looks more like someone going to the derby.
As an American, colors and prints are normal (even though Emily brought it way over the the top) I found her outfits perfect to prove the point that Americans think Parisiens are so into fun fashion but they prefer to wear black, white or grey (even on children!)
I laughed out loud at this remark. Just look at the clothes on the hangers belonging to TheUrbanEve in her Parisian apartment. All bright colours and patterns! I love these funny moments.😂
I’ve never encountered a Parisien that didn’t immediately switch to English. Even when I make an effort to speak broken French they ask why didn’t I just ask them to switch…
I loved your reaction! As a brazilian girl, I wanted to know more about the reality of the show. Just a fun fact, here in Brazil if you are a tourist and you don't speak portuguese we will hapily only speak in your language with you. We don't care at all.
Well, I understand why there are so many people annoyed. It puts french people like a "one type of person", and Emily, who is more open-minded, more feminist and basically better, spends the whole season trying to convince every french she meets that American culture is better. It may be "better" in some things, but you can't move to another country and do that, I find it super disrespectful. I understand your point in language compared to Germany, but if I compare it to my country (Spain), I find it very difficult to move here (working here and all, not as a tourist) only speaking in English, as people in non-tourist areas (specially 50+ year old people) don't understand it at all. Besides, there's this scene where she goes have lunch and eats a baguette, just like that wtf???!! Bref, too many cliches for me... hahahaha
Yes, I absolutely agree with you on the points you mentioned. A lot of clichés about Paris and French people. The show is definitely from an American perspective. However, as a German living here I have experienced quite a few similar things. Overall the things I mentioned in the video. I also lived in Spain for 5 years prior to coming to Paris. And I found that even though, most Spanish people did not speak English at all, they'd be at least more open to helping tourists and foreigners out. But then again, Paris is definitely not France. And people from Paris are known (even amongst the rest of French people) to be a little "snobbish" and to stay more within their circles. So the stereotype of the rude Parisian is definitely something French people from outside of Paris have, too. I guess what the show is focusing on is Paris and Parisians and not the French people as a whole. But, of course you can't stereotype the people a culture as a whole.
I understand French can even read it but I don't really speak it so I just speak in English to them and they reply in French, most of them are happy that they don't need to switch to English lol so it's fine. Only seniors sometimes point out that I should speak it too 🤷♀️
When you talk about french people reluctant to speak in english because they want to "preserve" their language, you're wrong. It's more of a case of "you come to our country, at least make an effort", and university secretaries are famous for being assholes (apparently they have way too much administration work on their hands and are always tired as a result), not just to foreign people, if she did not speak in english it's cause she doesn't know how to. Simple, all a french person asks is for a "bonjour" and if they see that you have difficulty with the language, they will switch or if you ask them politely, they will switch.
Como siempre tu pelo es de lo mas bonito. Y si, tienes razon, Paris no es Francia. Es una grande ciudad y pienso que en todas las grandes ciuadades la gente es un poco mas "rude"...
100% agree with you, Paris is overrated and what it shown to the world is an image of the Belle Époque and the Paris between 1900 and 1929 before the Great Depression but we French know the rest. Basically what foreigners see is just a mere 1% of what Paris actually is. So yeah, lots of people are actually disappointed when visiting the city: yes it’s dirty, lots of pollution, the metro smells, it’s not super safe, you get you stuff stolen if you don’t pay attention, don’t wonder in weird places at night, and yes, lots of dog poop on the pavement. Just a couple of examples.
I've heard that even people fluent in French, such as Canadian French, have difficulty navigating with their dialect being different. I wonder if that is accurate?
Obviously everyone’s experience will be different. However, from what I’ve experienced and heard from friends and family who don’t speak French, they are always having a hard time getting around in Paris with only English. I guess you’re lucky then:)
Ça me fâche, honnêtement, qu'elle ne dise pas du tout bonjour au monde et ses manières sont terribles... Cela c'est vraiment agaçant parce que je ne tolérerais même pas "Hi" comme salutation en anglais. Emily est probablement l'une des ados blanches les plus privilégiées à Paris dans le film. Trop égoïste, grossière et arrogante! D'ailleurs, quand j'étais arrivé en France pour la première fois (il y a une décennie) certains Parisiens me reparlait en anglais voyant que je n'avais pas l'habitude de parler français mais en pratiquant constamment et développement mes compétences ils me disaient bientôt (Tu parle super bien le français!). Une femme m'avait déjà dit que j'avais un accent belge. Cela est probablement pourquoi des jeunes hommes belges (d'autres types noirs comme moi même) ont une fois essayé de fouiller dans l'une de mes conversation avec mes amies et collègues.
moi, je ne suis pas français, mais je suis bigrement attaché à ce pays ainsi qu’à la culture française et je tiens à dire que véritablement cette série est juste bourrée de clichés, elle se contredit, surtout au sujet du féminisme, montrer que les françaises ne sont pas féministes tandis que la France est précurseuse du mouvement féministe mondial ceci est un vrai absurd à mon avis
Indeed, costumer service is below zero. We went to visit the Louvre and we had booked the slot from 9.00. So we stood there waiting from 8.45 We saw workers getting in and out from the Louvre, having a smoke, get some coffee, whatever. It didn't open at 9, instead someone walked by with a very small board with something written on it that we couldn't read. Nobody said anything, no explanations, nothing. This went on until 10.40. 2 hours of waiting in line, people just going away, no information... When we got in we asked what was wrong. And the lady just said: Oh, reunion... that was it. Or a day later. We wanted to visit the Pantheon. Closed due to a strike. Nobody at the hotel warned us that the Parisians went on strike that day. So we found ourselves in the middle of the route later that day. We were going straight back to the hotel, which was at Porte de Lilas. My BF, who speaks French asked if the metro direction Mairie de Lilas was running. Oh yeah, no problem he said. Nope, just Ligne 1 was working. So we got of closest to the hotel which still was almost 2 hours of walking away. That was my worst experience with Paris in all of my visits.
It is quite strange that in one video, reactors says that French switch to English when they hear you speak English and that it is hard to practice French and then others says that French don't want to speak English, how come? On est juste chiant en fait XD
I’d say it has to do with “generation”, I guess younger people would now speak English more easily because of all the media exposure and social media etc, and older generations would not speak that comfortably or not at all I suppose.
Me, not knowing French, asking for help in English: *Non, non*. Me, knowing a little French, trying hard as heck to ask for help: *Non, non, non*. What do you want from me, France?
I agree with you Eve, most of the cliches in this series were based on truth!!! Floors counted from 0 instead of 1 like in the US, the baker correcting her French, the French starting work late in the day (in comm agencies) I saw sooo much of what I experienced in this series 😁
Yeah who starts work at 10am, wtf There may be exceptions but no, the average starting hour for work everyday is not different in France from what it is in the rest of the world
You are not exaggerating. Paris truly over rated...overly crowed streets; expensive, cold, old apartment and dirty. Just a european version of NYC. I would call it worse than NY , but truth be told, they are not as dirty as NY, nor are they blatantly racist or profilers. Seriously, the reputation that they have from being snobbish isn't about race or culture, it is about the profound love and adoration for their language if you don't speak it well. It's been 10 years since I visited Paris, and according to friends who have visited more recently, it hadn't and never will change. If I live in France, I would live out south, not city. Any ways, thank for your beautiful reaction to the show.
Would an American person speak French if I went an American university? No. So no one has to speak in English because you speak English. If I go to China, I will learn Chinese….
Welp the travel rates will drop down heavily yeah? The reason people can learn about other cultures is because of interaction, if everyone had to wait to be fluent in a language to travel to a the country where they’d get the most exposure, they’d be heavily handicapping any possible progress. L take 👎
See… that just pisses me off… How entitled English speaking people are sometimes… like the world is supposed to speak English to accommodate you. When I travel abroad I make an effort to learn basic things, I travel with a conversational guide… I mean that is the least you can do!
No other country makes demands to be able to speak their language, though. Most English speakers, such as myself, are English-as-a-second-language speakers. We learned English to accommodate the world. Me speaking English is trying to meet in the middle by learning a lingua franca. I don’t demand tourists to know my national language save for a few basic phrases, but I would hope they knew enough English to communicate with _someone_ on the street.
As a German, I have to agree - but it's not always a positive thing. We basically give up our own language instead of "honour" it in some way (that sounds strange, but I hope it gets more understandable when I explain). For an example, let's take Instagram accounts of museums in different countries, which many of them I follow: French museums write about the picture they posted in French, then in English. Same in Italy. Same in Czechoslovakia. Same in Spain. Many German speaking countries simply post in English, and only in English. Why though? Another example: our language gets more and more anglicized, suddenly it's much more "in" to say the English word instead of the German. That's definitely not a positive thing.
But I also want to make clear that I in no way would refuse to help someone who visits Germany for a few days and can only speak English. Of course I would speak English with this person.
I just wanted to address that the French attitude to their own language is not so bad at all.
It’s totally true what you are saying and I agree. On one hand I understand this attitude but on the other hand I think it’s sometimes exaggerated where people expect you to speak French even if you’re just visiting and needing help.
@@itsimplyeve my experience was 100 this. I feel like French people were super mean and im British. Been once as a teen and the other time as an adult. Never planning to go back!
The floor thing....it's like that in the UK too ground floor, then first, second, etc....it's always the Americans who must do everything differently 🙄(joking)
I laughed when you mentioned her outfits, it's so true! Floral prints? That kind of dresses?People in Paris don't dress like that. Maybe that was the point and we missed it. She looks more like someone going to the derby.
The outfits were not fashionable at all, regardless of french standards. It was giving me very much 2009 😅
@@LisaF777 it has to be that, she loves the late noughties!!
As an American, colors and prints are normal (even though Emily brought it way over the the top) I found her outfits perfect to prove the point that Americans think Parisiens are so into fun fashion but they prefer to wear black, white or grey (even on children!)
I laughed out loud at this remark. Just look at the clothes on the hangers belonging to TheUrbanEve in her Parisian apartment. All bright colours and patterns! I love these funny moments.😂
They costed literally thousanda tho
I’ve never encountered a Parisien that didn’t immediately switch to English. Even when I make an effort to speak broken French they ask why didn’t I just ask them to switch…
I loved your reaction! As a brazilian girl, I wanted to know more about the reality of the show. Just a fun fact, here in Brazil if you are a tourist and you don't speak portuguese we will hapily only speak in your language with you. We don't care at all.
Well, I understand why there are so many people annoyed. It puts french people like a "one type of person", and Emily, who is more open-minded, more feminist and basically better, spends the whole season trying to convince every french she meets that American culture is better. It may be "better" in some things, but you can't move to another country and do that, I find it super disrespectful. I understand your point in language compared to Germany, but if I compare it to my country (Spain), I find it very difficult to move here (working here and all, not as a tourist) only speaking in English, as people in non-tourist areas (specially 50+ year old people) don't understand it at all. Besides, there's this scene where she goes have lunch and eats a baguette, just like that wtf???!! Bref, too many cliches for me... hahahaha
Yes, I absolutely agree with you on the points you mentioned. A lot of clichés about Paris and French people. The show is definitely from an American perspective. However, as a German living here I have experienced quite a few similar things. Overall the things I mentioned in the video. I also lived in Spain for 5 years prior to coming to Paris. And I found that even though, most Spanish people did not speak English at all, they'd be at least more open to helping tourists and foreigners out. But then again, Paris is definitely not France. And people from Paris are known (even amongst the rest of French people) to be a little "snobbish" and to stay more within their circles. So the stereotype of the rude Parisian is definitely something French people from outside of Paris have, too. I guess what the show is focusing on is Paris and Parisians and not the French people as a whole. But, of course you can't stereotype the people a culture as a whole.
I understand French can even read it but I don't really speak it so I just speak in English to them and they reply in French, most of them are happy that they don't need to switch to English lol so it's fine. Only seniors sometimes point out that I should speak it too 🤷♀️
When you talk about french people reluctant to speak in english because they want to "preserve" their language, you're wrong. It's more of a case of "you come to our country, at least make an effort", and university secretaries are famous for being assholes (apparently they have way too much administration work on their hands and are always tired as a result), not just to foreign people, if she did not speak in english it's cause she doesn't know how to. Simple, all a french person asks is for a "bonjour" and if they see that you have difficulty with the language, they will switch or if you ask them politely, they will switch.
💯! Loved this and appreciate your analysis.
Como siempre tu pelo es de lo mas bonito. Y si, tienes razon, Paris no es Francia. Es una grande ciudad y pienso que en todas las grandes ciuadades la gente es un poco mas "rude"...
The language thing is so true for international students even in German.
I am French, i live In the suburb of P and i totally agree !!
100% agree with you, Paris is overrated and what it shown to the world is an image of the Belle Époque and the Paris between 1900 and 1929 before the Great Depression but we French know the rest. Basically what foreigners see is just a mere 1% of what Paris actually is. So yeah, lots of people are actually disappointed when visiting the city: yes it’s dirty, lots of pollution, the metro smells, it’s not super safe, you get you stuff stolen if you don’t pay attention, don’t wonder in weird places at night, and yes, lots of dog poop on the pavement. Just a couple of examples.
I've heard that even people fluent in French, such as Canadian French, have difficulty navigating with their dialect being different. I wonder if that is accurate?
Whenever I visit France, fortunately people respond to me in English because it's clear I can't speak the language. Is this just luck?
Obviously everyone’s experience will be different. However, from what I’ve experienced and heard from friends and family who don’t speak French, they are always having a hard time getting around in Paris with only English. I guess you’re lucky then:)
Ça me fâche, honnêtement, qu'elle ne dise pas du tout bonjour au monde et ses manières sont terribles... Cela c'est vraiment agaçant parce que je ne tolérerais même pas "Hi" comme salutation en anglais. Emily est probablement l'une des ados blanches les plus privilégiées à Paris dans le film. Trop égoïste, grossière et arrogante!
D'ailleurs, quand j'étais arrivé en France pour la première fois (il y a une décennie) certains Parisiens me reparlait en anglais voyant que je n'avais pas l'habitude de parler français mais en pratiquant constamment et développement mes compétences ils me disaient bientôt (Tu parle super bien le français!). Une femme m'avait déjà dit que j'avais un accent belge. Cela est probablement pourquoi des jeunes hommes belges (d'autres types noirs comme moi même) ont une fois essayé de fouiller dans l'une de mes conversation avec mes amies et collègues.
What a great outfit. You look beautiful.
Thank you!
moi, je ne suis pas français, mais je suis bigrement attaché à ce pays ainsi qu’à la culture française et je tiens à dire que véritablement cette série est juste bourrée de clichés, elle se contredit, surtout au sujet du féminisme, montrer que les françaises ne sont pas féministes tandis que la France est précurseuse du mouvement féministe mondial ceci est un vrai absurd à mon avis
Indeed, costumer service is below zero. We went to visit the Louvre and we had booked the slot from 9.00. So we stood there waiting from 8.45
We saw workers getting in and out from the Louvre, having a smoke, get some coffee, whatever. It didn't open at 9, instead someone walked by with a very small board with something written on it that we couldn't read. Nobody said anything, no explanations, nothing. This went on until 10.40. 2 hours of waiting in line, people just going away, no information... When we got in we asked what was wrong. And the lady just said: Oh, reunion... that was it.
Or a day later. We wanted to visit the Pantheon. Closed due to a strike. Nobody at the hotel warned us that the Parisians went on strike that day. So we found ourselves in the middle of the route later that day. We were going straight back to the hotel, which was at Porte de Lilas. My BF, who speaks French asked if the metro direction Mairie de Lilas was running. Oh yeah, no problem he said.
Nope, just Ligne 1 was working. So we got of closest to the hotel which still was almost 2 hours of walking away. That was my worst experience with Paris in all of my visits.
It is quite strange that in one video, reactors says that French switch to English when they hear you speak English and that it is hard to practice French and then others says that French don't want to speak English, how come? On est juste chiant en fait XD
I’d say it has to do with “generation”, I guess younger people would now speak English more easily because of all the media exposure and social media etc, and older generations would not speak that comfortably or not at all I suppose.
I was looking forward for your reaction on this Eve. I haven't seen it and although I love Paris, I am not too fancy to see it. Thanks!
I hope this doesn’t sound stupid but language do you think in?! It’s just so cool so be fluent in different languages.
Me, not knowing French, asking for help in English: *Non, non*.
Me, knowing a little French, trying hard as heck to ask for help: *Non, non, non*.
What do you want from me, France?
All the best girl...
The French in that movie are 100% right! 😀
Woww, I thought you had been living in Paris for 2 years max
Nope, it's been a very long time:)
I agree with you Eve, most of the cliches in this series were based on truth!!! Floors counted from 0 instead of 1 like in the US, the baker correcting her French, the French starting work late in the day (in comm agencies) I saw sooo much of what I experienced in this series 😁
Pfff... Starting work at 10h30 is pure bullshit, not for everybody. 9h/9h30 max. This is nonsense
Yeah who starts work at 10am, wtf
There may be exceptions but no, the average starting hour for work everyday is not different in France from what it is in the rest of the world
I don't feel like visiting France after this🤔
You are not exaggerating. Paris truly over rated...overly crowed streets; expensive, cold, old apartment and dirty. Just a european version of NYC. I would call it worse than NY , but truth be told, they are not as dirty as NY, nor are they blatantly racist or profilers. Seriously, the reputation that they have from being snobbish isn't about race or culture, it is about the profound love and adoration for their language if you don't speak it well. It's been 10 years since I visited Paris, and according to friends who have visited more recently, it hadn't and never will change. If I live in France, I would live out south, not city. Any ways, thank for your beautiful reaction to the show.
À Parisian?
Would an American person speak French if I went an American university? No. So no one has to speak in English because you speak English. If I go to China, I will learn Chinese….
Welp the travel rates will drop down heavily yeah? The reason people can learn about other cultures is because of interaction, if everyone had to wait to be fluent in a language to travel to a the country where they’d get the most exposure, they’d be heavily handicapping any possible progress. L take 👎
See… that just pisses me off…
How entitled English speaking people are sometimes… like the world is supposed to speak English to accommodate you.
When I travel abroad I make an effort to learn basic things, I travel with a conversational guide… I mean that is the least you can do!
No other country makes demands to be able to speak their language, though. Most English speakers, such as myself, are English-as-a-second-language speakers. We learned English to accommodate the world. Me speaking English is trying to meet in the middle by learning a lingua franca. I don’t demand tourists to know my national language save for a few basic phrases, but I would hope they knew enough English to communicate with _someone_ on the street.